“run the damn ball” ... that’s funny. I have heard women in full make up and heels yelling that here in the south
When I was young I often visited my extended family "out in the country" for days during Christmas breaks and saw one my grandmother, uncles, aunts, and cousins. I would stay and different ones' houses different nights. There was one year that I spent the night at my grandmother's during New Year's Day.
New Year's Day meant bowl games, especially the Sugar Bowl. On this evening it was just me and Granny, her in her rocking chair and me on a quilt pallet she made for me in the floor. I don't remember who was playing that night (probably a 50/50 chance it was Bama since the Sugar Bowl was practically a regularly scheduled game for them back in the Bear days). I do remember the announcers going on and on about the quarterback, the running back, the receivers, etc.
Finally Granny couldn't sit still and let her grandson get such disinformation without correcting it. She turned to me and more serious than I remember her saying anything else in my life she said to me in a half-teaching, half-fussing tone: "The linemen don't get enough respect. The game is won or lost at the line of scrimmage." All I could do was stammer a meek "yes, ma'am".
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Granny was right then. Decades later and long after she passed away Granny is still right. I thought about her almost every play during the national championship Bama lost to Clemson. Almost every time Clemson hiked the ball their QB had enough time to take a nap. But almost every time Bama hiked the ball our QB had to be in a hurry. :)