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#93613 01/29/03 02:13 PM
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#93614 01/29/03 03:07 PM
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FIRST AND TEN

it's an assumption of first and ten yards to go

go team!



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#93615 01/29/03 03:56 PM
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Offensive pass interference is a bad call by the ref and is very offensive to the fans of the team penalized, so it is dubbed "offensive" (as opposed to defensive pass interference which is always a legitimate call by the ref, and so is viewed as a defensible penalty by the penalized).

A double-reverse is when both teams switch sides twice before the ball is hiked.




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oh, that's very helpful, WO'N...





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whoa! juan momentarily dropped the ball there and segued into a description of 42-man Squamish!


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oh, that's very helpful, WO'N...

Yeah, I thought it might be...glad to be of help.

But I guess you don't want to hear what an end around is, then, do ya?






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Offensive pass interference is a bad call by the ref and is very offensive to the fans of the team penalized, so it is dubbed "offensive" (as opposed to defensive pass interference which is always a legitimate call by the ref, and so is viewed as a defensible penalty by the penalized). Don't say things like this--some people might believe you!


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And a hand off is a penalty called when a player taps another player on the butt.


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Don't say things like this--some people might believe you!

Well, it certainly had me trying to get my head round it for a while.

After reading some of this it occurs to me that you have to have been born into this culture. I shall give up; my head hurts.



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I shall give up; my head hurts.
There, there, Dear. Lie back with a warm compress on your head. I shall give you just one simple fact:
the offense is the team that is trying to get the ball to the goal. The defense is trying to keep them from reaching that goal: 'defending' it.


(Uh oh--one more sneaking in: that's OFF-fense, not of-FENSE, in this usage). And, at least in the south, it's DEE-fense.)



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