It was the evening of the day that Jesus rose from the dead. Mary Magdalene had told them that she had actually seen the Lord not far from the tomb where he was buried just three days earlier. "At first," she said, "I thought it was the gardener, but Jesus spoke to me and called me by name, and then I knew that it really was Jesus. He’s alive!" But the disciples hadn’t seen him, and now it was evening. They had to be discussing Mary’s report, as well as those other terrible and terrifying events of the last couple days. They might have talked all night long; they had reason to.

That’s a normal reaction when something unusually exciting happens, isn’t it? On October 17, 1983, the Green Bay Packers and the Washington Redskins played one of the most exciting football games ever seen on telev…