Whats good about Football?

[TimPoet]

Originally posted by SARGE I hope I don't see/hear that too much this Sat, Tuf. I have a feeling that I will, though.

I hate when that happens... like last Sunday with my SD Chargers.

[Tuf]

I can't say with any conviction what will happen but I hope Oklahoma can pull off this one. It's like one of us has to play the Big12 Championship game twice.

[TimPoet]

I'll tell you what's good about football, my Chargers coming back from 10 point deficits 3 times and winning the game by one point with 14 seconds left to play!
Cha-a-a-a-a-a-a-a-argeeeerrs!!!!!

[Kubie]

And my 0-4 Rams wasting the 4-0 Raiders.
Carl

[TimPoet]

Originally posted by Kubie And my 0-4 Rams wasting the 4-0 Raiders. Carl

S-s-s-s-s-mOkin'!!!!
And we gonna tear 'em apart next week, best thing in the world is being in the stadium while the Chargers beat the Raiders, got to do it twice!!!

[RayH]

What's good about America Football? The San Francisco Forty-Niners!!!!

Football at the NFL level takes on a completely different demension. At the college level, there are big players and there are quick players. In the NFL, they're all BIG QUICK players. I love watching NFL. But I really think it's a game played by people who are two brick short of a stack. Who else would want a 350+ pound gorilla chasing them all day?

As for the padding, it can be protective equipment. This is a game originally designed to be played in the snow. But now, it's played quite frenquently on carpet and cement. See the above paragraph about being slammed by a gorilla into such all day long.

But also, the padding is a weapon when launched against an opponent. It's a rough game.

The basic rules of the game are simple enough to understand. It's the strategy that gets complicated. It's as much a game of strategy and military precision as it is of pure athletic ability. Most of the higher ranking military staff were military college football players.

Teams with players with less natural athletic abilities can defeat teams with players of more natural athletic abilities through better execution and game strategy.

Look what happened to the Raiders at the hands of the Rams this weekend. The Raiders thought their team was on cuise control and fell asleep at the wheel.

[RayH]

1970 - USC 42, Alabama 21 It's a rare feat when a football game helps to change societal attitudes. The 1970 USC win over Alabama may have done just that. The Trojans traveled to Birmingham where they faced an all-white Crimson Tide team coached by Paul "Bear" Bryant. Thanks to dominating performances for USC by a trio of African-Americans (Sam Cunningham, Clarence Davis and Jimmy Jones), Bryant was convinced that he needed to recruit black players for his program. The rest of the Southeastern Conference soon followed suit and opportunities for black athletes in the South began to improve tremendously. Bryant was so impressed by Cunningham (who had 135 yards and two touchdowns on just 12 carries) that he invited the sophomore fullback into the 'Bama locker room after the game. He brought his players to Cunningham one-by-one and introduced him, saying: "This is what a football player looks like."