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Old Fri Dec 17, 2010, 05:40pm
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bob Jenkins said it best. Allow yourself enough time, so if you're late, you're not.
Sounds like something Yogi would say. Do we call this a bob-ism?
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Old Fri Dec 17, 2010, 05:44pm
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Sounds like something Yogi would say. Do we call this a bob-ism?
I've had a lot of senior NCO's use the same phrase; and I don't think any of them know bob.
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Old Fri Dec 17, 2010, 05:57pm
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My college coach said it even simpler: If you're on time, you're late.

And he proved it after one particularly irksome loss out of town. Somehow I was one of just two players to make it to his van the next morning a little ahead of time for the four-hour ride home. He, an assistant and we two players occupied his eight-person van.

We got home well before the other van -- with 12 other players and two coaches crammed in it -- did.
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Old Fri Dec 17, 2010, 06:06pm
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I've had a lot of senior NCO's use the same phrase; and I don't think any of them know bob.
Vince Lombardi used a saying sumthin' like that (mad rush by the young un's to Google Vince Lombardi).
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Old Fri Dec 17, 2010, 06:12pm
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Vince Lombardi used a saying sumthin' like that (mad rush by the young un's to Google Vince Lombardi).
Isn't he the guy in Law and Order: Criminal Intent?
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Old Fri Dec 17, 2010, 06:35pm
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Isn't he the guy in Law and Order: Criminal Intent?
Dan Lauria, the dad in "The Wonder Years", is playing Lombardi on Broadway.

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Old Sat Dec 18, 2010, 02:20am
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Vince Lombardi used a saying sumthin' like that (mad rush by the young un's to Google Vince Lombardi).
Paraphrasing: (trying to remember what I read in Jerry Kramer's book about 40 years ago) The Lombardi clock is twenty minutes ahead of the real clock. If you're twenty minutes early, you're on time. If you're ten minutes early, you're the last one there. If you're on time, you're late.
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Old Sat Dec 18, 2010, 01:41pm
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Learned it in my early military days too.....
"Lombardi time" is the principle that one should arrive 10–15 minutes early, or else be considered late.
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Old Sun Dec 19, 2010, 12:15am
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"Lombardi time" is the principle that one should arrive 10–15 minutes early, or else be considered late.
My Alma matter compensated for that by starting classes 10 after the hour.
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Old Sun Dec 19, 2010, 08:14pm
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I used to live in the Chicago area, and remember without fondness 90 min drives to HS games.
Now that I live in South New Jersey, where we get almost no snow and most games are 30 min away, no more complaints from me!!

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