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Is "real football" played on Saturday's?
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Too much endzone danceing, hype and importance put on a game. The endless supply of pro widerecievers claiming they have been dissrespected.
Whats worse is highschool football. Summer weight training discourageing kids from getting summer jobs and going on family vacations. Kids being held back a grade so they can be bigger than the other kids. Makeing media darlings out of 16-18 y.o. only to inflate there already oversized egos and sense of self-importance.
The Shop
In Virginia it is....
Va. Tech lineman loses part of pinky, keeps playing
Those years will forge your manhood I guess, my forging had a few lumps and bumps in it I guess!
According to sandberm guess that's why I have a couple screws loose.
Break your nose, toes or whatever and still show up for work every day because you have a bunch of hungry mouths to feed at home. Thats sacrificeing your body and being a man for something important. Somehow still troting out on the field for a game when injured seems silly in comparison. I think too often our society glorifies the injured athlete still playing his game as being in the same realm as doing battle or doing something noble when in essence most of the time it is for self glory.
Don't want to raise a pansy now do I? With what's coming out of society now I wonder what kind of leaders this country will have in the future.
So am I a bad Dad for letting my kid go against huge odds against him?
Just signing the contract gets a pro football player a paycheck large enough to feed his family before he even heads out onto the field.
And then, when they make the choice to make head to head contact for years and millions of dollars in income, they have audacity to sue the league that paid them for there head injuries.
IIIIiiiii dont know.
and thats coming from someone who has lived in omaha for the last 3 years.
Sorry couldn't resist.....
Pit Row
I can't tell you how many games I watched before I thought I had it figured out, only to discover that it was much more straight-forward than it looks.
It combines the best aspects of every other football-type sport you've ever seen, with a little basketball and hockey mixed in.
Basically, it's about getting the ball between the sticks. Tall sticks (goal) = 6 points, short sticks (behind) = 1 point, and if an opposing player gets a hand on the ball on it's way between the big sticks, it becomes a behind, for 1 point. And you can't just run the ball through the posts, you have to kick or punch it through.
A player can't take the ball more than 15 meters without either bouncing it, or getting rid of it.
Getting rid of it requires a kick or a punch, no handing-off or throwing is allowed.
A pass over 15 meters is called a mark, and the player who receives the pass (takes the mark) can choose to play on, or take an unopposed kick.
If an opposing player tackles the player in possession (below the shoulders, above the knees), and the tackle-ee doesn't get rid of the ball before he's fully down, the tackle-er gets the ball.
If there's a dispute over possession, say two opposing players both have a grip on the ball, but no one was tackled, play is stopped and a ref bounces the ball into the air for a free for all. This is called a ball-up.
Out-of-bounds is like basketball, in that if your team is last to touch the ball before it goes "out on the full", the other team gets to put it back into play.
The difference is that the out-of-bounds rule only affects the ball. A player in possession can step outside the line, as long as he keeps the ball inside the line.
I think that's pretty much it, but if any Ausies would like to step in and correct or clarify anything, I'd be happy to learn more.
GO PIES!!!!
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