[petro45acp]

BMG stands for "Browning Machine Gun." This caliber is reserved for hearty souls firing Barrett rifles and hitting things at ranges normally associated with indirect fire weapons (mortars, artillery, nuclear weapons)!

Odd little note. The expression "the whole 9 yards" has nothing to do with football. I comes from the belted ammunition (.50 BMG) used in the P51 Mustang. When you "gave him the whole 9 yards," you fired all the ammo in the belt.

Cheers,

[Dead Corpse]

May having nothing to do with ammo belts. Click me.

The first I heard of it was in relation to a traditional Scotish kilt.

[King Prout]

not so - it has to do with length of cloth on a bolt.

[Ichneumon]

Odd little note. The expression "the whole 9 yards" has nothing to do with football. I comes from the belted ammunition (.50 BMG) used in the P51 Mustang. When you "gave him the whole 9 yards," you fired all the ammo in the belt.

I think that's explanation #493. There have been dozens of different claims to the "origin" of the phrase, including from tailoring, cement delivery, you name it.

As far as I know no one's been able to find definitive evidence for any of them. It's probably one of those things that are lost in the mists of time and will never really be settled.

[Jasper]

""The expression "The whole nine yards" has nothing to do with football.""

I've always wondered where that expression came from. My dad "crewed" on F-51's (so designated after the army aircorps became the USAF in 1947) and is quite fond of that expression.