Stupid Sportswriters!
 

Found asdf!!

"Normally used for punts, the rule stated that as long as the player receiving the snap was seven yards behind center, any teammate wearing the jersey of an eligible receiver (between Nos. 1 and 49 or 80 and 89) was permitted to go downfield. Bryan and Humphries had already been noodling with a 3-3-3 superspread base formation that had two sets of three receivers flushed out wide in "pods" close to the numbers, with a center inside flanked by two tight ends, in addition to two QBs in the backfield. Now the scrimmage kick formation rule was saying they could potentially send any of those 11 players out for passes." (An offensive revolution is coming to the NFL. Can anyone stop it? - ESPN The Magazine)

You are right, the first sentence is slightly confusing to that effect! What a gotcha moment!!! Who cares if it was clearly clarified in the very next sentence. We got him! This proves he's a sportswriter! How could someone make such a "major" mistake? Blasphemy!! Its almost as bad as confusing "legal" with "approved" (to give formal or official sanction)!

TXMike, can't wait to read your next masterpiece " The Snake Oil Sportswriter is at it again"!

zebra, Please stop. For the love of God, please stop. Whatever your agenda is, it doesn't work for those of us who actually go on the field as officials. Enough is enough.

Generally speaking, rules and laws don't tell you what you can do, they tell you what you can't do. That is the spirit of freedom.

A-11 is perfectly legal. I don't personally like it, but then, there are a lot of legal things being done in this country that I don't like.

I'm happy to point out to you anything to keep your blood pressure elevated. Like your brother in protest, you are an easy mark. I can envision you throwing folders across the room every time you see an "insult".

Mrs. Bryan, would you please get off the computer and fix Kurt some supper please?


Thankee:D

I have to agree. I went to work a game tonight and came back and I see the tags. This is some hilarious stuff.

Peace

I'm going to jump in for my very first A-11 topic post!!!!!

I wanted to make a few observaions I have had over this:

1. Never eaten hyenas, but I bet it's stringy. I would suggest a marinade - preferably with lots of garlic and chilis.

2. I'm thinking that Juggling didn't get mentioned because he is a foreigner, so sueing him would be a lot more of a hassle.

3. It is fairly obvious from the 35 pages of messages that zebra295 has only been following the A-11 discussion for a short time, and has missed some of the background 'discussion' that has taken place. There are indeed things that KB has 'lied' about, including (as a few examples that I can think of off the top of my head) at the beginning not selling stuff, and I remember his web site showed examples of teams using the A-11, and including a clip of a big NCAA team (I want to say Michagan, but I'm probably wrong) that was supposedly using it, and completely misrepresented (semantically different than lying?) what the team was doing and how.

4. There was one (small) grain in the original complaint that I thought had an element of truth in it though. Over the years I have seen the attitude of posters occationally get a little agressive. I remember a time that Rut was always getting 'attacked' because he played devil's advocate (I think he was probably having a lot of fun with it though). And there ARE times when I think the responses here are nasty, and not always meant in irony.
That is however what it is like in a family, which is what we are. We say things, bash heads, learn from each other, move on to other topics where they see things eye to eye, and the circle rolls on and on.

I would suggest that it would be good to keep our tone regulated for new visitors (but I don't need to suggest it, since it is being done), and point out that the tone only gets 'dirty' with people who want to duke it out, and thereby enter themselves into the family atmosphere.

My opinion is that people are respected here, until they do things that loose them the respect of the others.

James,
from just outside of Berlin, Germany. If anyone wants, I'll send them my postal address and telephone number in case they want to visit.

By the way. My personal opinion is that the A-11 is EXPLOITING a loophole in the rules, and I think that is not a noble or sportsman like thing to do. I also don't agree with people who take advantages of tax loopholes.

My favorite tag from this thread is: "man's inhumanity to man."

I'm frankly looking forward to February, when the rules committee closes the numbering exception loophole and this becomes a non-issue.

Yeah, he's giving way to much intellectual credit to a sports writer.

This thread's still open? Wow.

That was mine. :)

That'll reduce traffic here by, like, 50%. :)

It's taking a lot from me not to request that it be shut down. :D

Actually, I love reading the essays! :o

I was going to point it out to a moderator off line early on, but it's almost as entertaining as the Illinois Senate Fuster Cluck.

Between that, and the NY Govenor situation last year, politics makes my head spin even more. Then again, we have Harper who calls an election only to have the country wish to form a coalition government and to avoid this, our PM shuts down parliament. :rolleyes:

This is my favorite post so far! He seems so excited that he found the "rule." In any event he just proved that he's not a football official.