Muda69

I know. I am so ashamed. The schools and mascot should be renamed to the South Miami Wild Squirrels.

And the big question is how does he know the hat he is wearing is a MAGA hat?

Happy Valentines Day!

I can hear the late John Facenda, voice of NFL Films, saying pretty much the same thing.......................

http://www.maconaquah.k12.in.us/giving Looks pretty cheap. What are other government schools charging for their naming rights?

I hope I don't either. However you cannot deny the general nomenclature of American tackle football is steeped in military jargon and themes. What is fundamentally untrue about this statement by Mr. Carlin?:

I thought so. Thank you for your service. https://www.seeker.com/football-shaped-by-military-discovery-news-1765639631.html

I’d like to talk a little bit about Baseball and Football. Starting with Baseball; Baseball is different from any other sport in a lot of different little ways. For instance, in most sports, you score points or you score goals. In Baseball, you score runs. In most sports, the ball or the object is put in play by the offensive team. In Baseball, the defense puts the ball in play, and only the defensive team is allowed to touch the ball. In fact in Baseball, if an offensive player touches the ball intentionally, he’s out. Also, most sports, the team is run by a coach. In Baseball, the team is run by a manager. And only in Baseball, does the manager or the coach, have to wear the same uniform the players do. Can you picture Bill Parcells in his New York Giants uniform? Now Baseball and Football are different from one another in other kind of interesting ways I think. First of all, Baseball is a 19th century pastoral game. Football is a 20th century technological struggle. Baseball is played on a diamond in the park, the Baseball Park. Football is played on a gridiron in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium. Baseball begins in the spring, the season of new life. Football begins in the fall, when everything is dying. In Football, you wear a helmet. In Baseball, you wear a cap. Football is concerned with downs. What down is it? Baseball is concerned with ups. Who’s up? Are you up? I’m not up. He is up. In Football, the specialist comes in to kick. In Baseball, the specialist comes in to relieve someone. In Football, you receive a penalty. In Baseball, you make an error. Whoops! Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, blocking, piling on, late hitting, unnecessary roughness and personal fouls. Baseball has the sacrifice. Football is played in any kind of weather, rain, sleet, snow, hail, mud, can’t read the numbers on the field, can’t read the yard markers, can’t read the players numbers, the struggle will continue. In Baseball, if it rains, we don’t come out to play. “I can’t come out to play. It’s raining out.” Baseball has a 7th inning stretch. Football has the two minute warning. Baseball has no time limit. We don’t know when it’s gonna end. We might have extra innings. Football is rigidly timed and it will end even if we have to go to sudden death. In Baseball, during the game in the stands, there is kind of a picnic feeling. Emotions may run high or low, but there’s not that much unpleasantness. In Football, in the stands, during the game you can be sure that at least 27 times you are perfectly capable of taking the life of a fellow human being, preferably a stranger. And finally the objectives of the two games are totally different. In Football, the object is for the quarterback, otherwise known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz even if he has to use the shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing his aerial assault with a sustained ground attack, which punches holes in the forward wall of the enemies’ defensive line. In Baseball, the object is to go home, and to be safe. I hope I’ll be safe at home, safe at home. - George Carlin From a personal experience level, no I do not know what WAR is like. Doesn't make my opinion on this topic any less valid. Are you a military veteran WCGrad92?

A good hire. Hall of Fame.

How does one get to know something about WARFARE? Sorry, I won't. Every thread? I don't think so.

Football is a game based on warfare. Your opponent is the enemy, for the duration of the contest. With the hierarchy of command, boot camp-style practices, playbooks, strategy and violence, football is more warlike than any other popular sport. At its core the game of football is based around either the taking or giving up of territory, just like classic warfare.

Yes it is pertinent because it only seems to matter to certain individuals. I posit that the supposed "edge" you put forth is minimal, especially in a form of the game played by children. Do you have statistics proving that this "edge" has won or lost a significant amount of high football games over say, the last decade?

It may obviously be a burden to the schools that don't have it. And basically unnecessary. Only to hyper-competitive individuals like yourself and others, looking for any small edge to destroy the enemy. In this case an enemy made up of children.

Meh, again this is children playing a game. Not adults in the college game or professionals in the NFL.

More on the Mr. Assman story: https://jalopnik.com/assman-will-not-take-this-sitting-down-1832602198

Can still cost $ to install and maintain. So it is a convenience item, not a competitive or safety issue. Got it. Should those fields that choose not to have a visible play clock be penalized by the IHSAA in some matter? Maybe they cannot host tournament games?

http://reason.com/archives/2019/02/14/choosing-smart-embryos-isnt-im Agreed. That said, is the world as one portrayed in the movie Gattacca not far from fruition?

https://www.commentarymagazine.com/anti-semitism/the-democratic-double-standard-for-anti-semitism/ Agreed. Hypocrisy all around in the Democratic side of the uni-party.

I disagree. I visible play clock is an expense that some programs may not be able to afford. And how does the play clock not being visible detract from the game, other than the "drama" of of watching it count down to zero?

Please elaborate.

I wonder if blue or green hats with "Make America Great Again" on them are also now viewed as a vile symbol of racism and misogyny?

Investigation finds no evidence of ‘racist or offensive statements’ by Covington Catholic students during Lincoln Memorial incident: https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/diocese-reverses-course-clears-covington-catholic-high-school-students-of-wrongdoing-after-investigation-of-viral-incident-on-mall/2019/02/13/c11195f8-2fa7-11e9-8ad3-9a5b113ecd3c_story.html?utm_term=.75f601726b0d

He made a good living in the plumbing & HVAC trade, so I'm sure he very content. Agree with you on the fruit company investment. I was about 13-14 when they went public.

National Debt Hits a New Record High: $22 Trillion: http://reason.com/blog/2019/02/13/national-debt-hits-22-trillion Hitting the $22 trillion threshold is just one step towards that future debt crisis, but it will take a long time to reverse these trends. The time to start is now, while the economy is still growing—because another recession will only make these problems more intractable. Unfortunately, there's little reason to expect Congress or the current president to take meaningful steps to defuse the long-term debt crisis before we hit the next milestone along the road—which won't take long at the rate we're going. A sorry future awaits America.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/09/opinion/sunday/pain-opioids.html Spot-on commentary. Just goes to show the consequences of the government's War on Opioids. An abject failure.