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Questions and Observations for American Football Fans
#11
RE: The first time you heard "Third and a mile"?
Seek help.
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#12
RE: The first time you heard "Third and a mile"?
(September 10, 2021 at 5:54 pm)arewethereyet Wrote:
(September 10, 2021 at 5:46 pm)Brian37 Wrote: Flag on the post, roughing the poster. Half the distance to the punch line.

There's never a punch line with you.

There is...

You hear him - and you want to punch him..
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#13
RE: The first time you heard "Third and a mile"?
For what?

I think in any given sport, most announcers or "Play by players" are fucking boring. I get announcing the stats and explaining the strategy, but that gets boring. I still want the game to be real, and I don't want it to be like the WWE or "fuck wrestling". But when I watch any sport I love a little banter about how well or bad a team is doing. I don't want sports to be like fake "pro wrestling", because that is just that, FUCKING FAKE. But there is nothing wrong with a real sport when the announcers have fun with the game.

I am not a golf fan in the slightest, but does anyone remember the recent butterfly chasing the put to the hole? That is how all sports should be.
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#14
RE: The first time you heard "Third and a mile"?
(September 10, 2021 at 5:52 pm)Brian37 Wrote:
(September 10, 2021 at 5:47 pm)brewer Wrote: My head flipped the two and went to racing or alcohol.

(37 safety zone activated)

I was the real reason the CTE movie was made.

That’s nice - using traumatic brain injury to try to be funny. I’ll bet cancer patients have you doubled over with laughter.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#15
RE: The first time you heard "Third and a mile"?
The longest 3rd down ever faced was by Louisiana Tech against Mississippi State in 2017.  Third and goal from their own 7, 93 yards to go.  They had a really bad 2nd down.

Third and 93 is 1667 yards less than a mile.
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#16
RE: The first time you heard "Third and a mile"?
(September 10, 2021 at 11:27 pm)Ranjr Wrote: The longest 3rd down ever faced was by Louisiana Tech against Mississippi State in 2017.  Third and goal from their own 7, 93 yards to go.  They had a really bad 2nd down.

Third and 93 is 1667 yards less than a mile.

I get it. In today's game a "mile" is nothing. 

But back then, like I said in a prior post, the standard ilk of play calling was run on first and second, to set your offense up for play option, as in 3rd and short. But today's game is mostly passing. 

I actually am shocked at the risk taking that goes on today, even early in a game on 4th down, which if you don't have the yardage, old school would make you punt. The game has changed.
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#17
RE: The first time you heard "Third and a mile"?
(September 11, 2021 at 3:29 am)Brian37 Wrote:
(September 10, 2021 at 11:27 pm)Ranjr Wrote: The longest 3rd down ever faced was by Louisiana Tech against Mississippi State in 2017.  Third and goal from their own 7, 93 yards to go.  They had a really bad 2nd down.

Third and 93 is 1667 yards less than a mile.

I get it. In today's game a "mile" is nothing. 

But back then, like I said in a prior post, the standard ilk of play calling was run on first and second, to set your offense up for play option, as in 3rd and short. But today's game is mostly passing. 

I actually am shocked at the risk taking that goes on today, even early in a game on 4th down, which if you don't have the yardage, old school would make you punt. The game has changed.

If you think the game is different now, just wait til next year when the Unicycle Rule takes effect.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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#18
RE: The first time you heard "Third and a mile"?
(September 11, 2021 at 4:54 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote:
(September 11, 2021 at 3:29 am)Brian37 Wrote: I get it. In today's game a "mile" is nothing. 

But back then, like I said in a prior post, the standard ilk of play calling was run on first and second, to set your offense up for play option, as in 3rd and short. But today's game is mostly passing. 

I actually am shocked at the risk taking that goes on today, even early in a game on 4th down, which if you don't have the yardage, old school would make you punt. The game has changed.

If you think the game is different now, just wait til next year when the Unicycle Rule takes effect.

Boru

I hate golf. I find it boring as hell. I won't argue that it does not take talent, every sport does. But, I would watch pro golf if they added paintball  to it. The rule would be your rivals could pelt you with paint balls in the back of your legs and back, but only on the putt. I figure if you can still make the put being hit by paintballs, you deserve she score.
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#19
RE: The first time you heard "Third and a mile"?
This is the weirdest thread...
Why is it so?
~Julius Sumner Miller
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#20
RE: The first time you heard "Third and a mile"?
(September 11, 2021 at 7:55 am)Spongebob Wrote: This is the weirdest thread...

It’s a 37 thread. Under those parameters, it doesn’t even crack the top 10.

Boru
‘But it does me no injury for my neighbour to say there are twenty gods or no gods. It neither picks my pocket nor breaks my leg.’ - Thomas Jefferson
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