The successful April launch of quick 3-second video sharing convinced Shahidi that Shots needed to double down on moving pictures.
And its unhappening dictated much of the autumn that followed; steady employment, the Fed raising rates in the US, an otherwise implausible-sounding growth forecast that allowed George Osborne to find several squillion down the back of the sofa and miraculously make the tax credit cuts go away, and thus the chancellor becoming more and more convinced he has a shot at the Tory leadership in 2019.
He took a pain-killing shot before the game, convinced coaches that he could play, and the Titans won in overtime, 32-29.
You feel convinced, when you convince someone.
On my own, I'm completely unable to take level shots; I'm seriously convinced that it's a fundamental physiological flaw of some kind.
(Some of you will recall a less convinced finding in the case of the shot of a rearing stallion bearing Miss Nancy Dell'Olio, late of Sven and Nancy).
Their method of execution, I'm convinced, is the kindest of all: a pistol shot to the back of the head.
Kenneth Pollack, of the Saban Centre for Middle East Policy at Brookings and author of "Unthinkable: Iran, the Bomb, and American Strategy" (to be published in September), is less convinced that the "US will get a clean shot" of that kind.
An Internet campaign by fans convinced CBS to give the show a seven-episode shot at a second life, but it appears unlikely that the network will renew it for a third season.
Alvarez, 18 years old at the time, had committed to attend Vanderbilt University, but as Commodores Coach Tim Corbin watched him send shot after shot into the stands, he became so convinced that he was about to lose his prize player that he dialed his recruiting director.
