Saturday, August 30, 2008

I Am Officially Underwhelmed

I refused to get excited about field goals*. You know why? Because it means you couldn't score a touchdown.

Secondly, when did it become illegal in college football to deliberately take a loss of yardage to runo out the clock? It didn't. In two games today, teams with the lead had fourth and long with less than seven seconds left. Rather than run backwards to milk the clock, both teams ran plays into the defense. Fortunately both teams won. But here's the thing, why don't you just run backwards or at least zig zag? Why even risk a fumble and, even worse, why give the ball back?







* Unless, of course, said field goal is kicked from an absurdly long distance in order to win or tie a game as time expires.

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