While we wait the brace of weeks before the Super
Bowl, we can prattle about how Pittsburgh and Seattle strained everybody else
how to gambol football.
Do you wakefulness March Madness? The team that
ends up with the memorial of conquest is the one that has the toleration. Some
years ago, Utah was in the eventual sport. They pooped out before the end of
the first half to my perfect frustration having worn out 8 years of my life at
the University of Utah.
March Madness, of course is basketball. Football
is the more irregular sport which would have been explained and described by
Charles Darwin if it were invented in his day. However, American football came
from Rugby. That's the sport where all the players have had their teeth knocked
out but still be fond of the sport. Only the most fit remain alive.
I loved football when I was a kid. My female
parent would not let me put on the high-reaching place of education football
constant with all of the pads, morion, and other defensive devices. Because of
that, those of us non-players went to the house of worship lees and played on
the lawn without any uniforms with the security array. Our period of the year
ended when everybody's knees had turned to mush from playing pulley (without
knee pads) rather than strike against football.
In Korea we played pulley football with no
defensive array. We could only do this when we were back in lay up. We played
as rigid as we could. If we broke a leg or an arm bad enough the vanquish that
could befall to us would be that they would ejaculate us abode. We couldn't
gambol football on the extended mark. We would have rolled down the mount.
(Besides we had telephone lines to renew during the day which got swollen apart
again every darkness. The lines were necessary to dub in piece of ordnance for
throwing bombs intense heat at darkness on the piece of ordnance for throwing
bombs concentrations we set up during the day.)
No one ever current the slightest mark with a
scratch or with scratches in one of our pulley football games. Our period of
the year always ended when the C.O. said, "No more pulley football. You're
going to get killed out there." (Each of us had heard that from the
Regimental Commander when we joined the one. He always said, "Half of you
will not be going abode, not live anyway." Thankfully, he was unjust. Our
Regiment not to be found about 1000 G.I.s plus a huge numerate of ROK soldiers
that served in our units more than the three years of the Korean War. When I
was there, the losses were lower than before I got there and after I left.)
The above is called by football commentators a
sidelight. I don't like sideline sob stories (or human affect stories) while
attention television football any more than you liked the above sidelight.
Anyway, my wife has taken up football. After
resisting for 70 years she lastly gave in. She can't believe that she now likes
football. What I mean is: She has not suited up yet. She likes to wakefulness
it on television. Therefore we now converse about the sport.
I'm usually perusal a volume or doing a science of
the laws of thought pose during the sport, but she gives it her replete
alertness and she gives me a fixed course of gossip that actually gets me
prejudiced in the sport.
Today she asked me about penalties and how they
are applied. The penal retribution she was talking about was when Seattle had
Carolina on the one compound extended mark. It was a 5-compound procedural
penal retribution. That meant the globe would be put half the remoteness to the
mark. I said, "I think that should be an self-acting security. The globe
should be placed on the minus 4-compound extended mark. Now I know that the
refs probably have not had calculus, so they should just dub it a security.
My wife wanted to know more. I said, believe you
are on your adversary's 16 compound extended mark and they get a 15-compound
penal retribution. The globe would be placed on the 1-compound extended mark.
Now believe you are on the 14-compound extended mark under the same state of
affairs. The globe would be placed half the remoteness to the mark and you
would get the globe on the 7.5-compound extended mark."
Stupid, right? (If I said the globe should be put
on the minus 1-compound extended mark, everybody would mourn, "That's no
way to get a touchdown!")
Here's what should befall in the second
instigation. The globe is put on the 1-compound extended mark and then half the
remoteness to the mark. You should be on the ½-compound extended mark. They
should accord confer you as many of the penal retribution yards as possible and
then ½ the remoteness to the mark of what's left. That will always put you on
the 1/2-compound extended mark where you belong.
I also would like the feel about rules put back
where they belong. The clod can't keep arrival up and knocking the globe out of
the idler's clutches like that and getting away with it.