Rockets fans play the worst game of tic-tac-toe the world has ever seen
James Dator has been covering a wide range of sports for SB Nation for over a decade, with a special focus on the NFL.
Two Rockets fans were given a unique opportunity to play tic-tac-toe in the hopes of winning fabulous prizes. They failed so spectacularly that we could write a novel on their exploits. Things were fine for the first couple of moves ... then everything went wrong.
Reid (playing X) and Blake (playing O) had the board looking like this after three moves:
Open board, easy for a block by Reid. Oh no ...
Blake’s going to win. No doubt about it. Then he decides to go top middle, and Reid AGAIN fails to make a block.
Those were just jitters. Blake has this. Stay calm.
WHAT ARE YOU DOING BLAKE?! WHY WOULD YOU GO MIDDLE LEFT?!
Nobody won the game.
The befuddled announcers were in a state of dismay, unsure what to do. They ended up eliciting the crowd to decide who would get a prize because neither Reid nor Blake earned it.
This is the entire game in six seconds:
