My rule has always been anything more than 8 point deficit with less than 6 minutes to go and the opponent has the ball, I'm out. Getting out of the Bills lot at the end of a game adds 2 hours and a night game on a school night is brutal.
Would I have stayed if I had known the outcome? Absolutely, but to sit there down by 15 with 5 minutes to go was not exactly something I was willing to roll the dice on for a Sunday night. Fortunately we made it home to watch the final drive, and I recorded that moment, so not all was lost for a memory.
Now if I had left the Oiler comeback game early, THAT would still bother me 😛