[Libertarian4Bush]

When you talk about football, you are flirting with intelligence but getting the cold shoulder.

when you talk at all, you bring a mark twain quote to mind.

but I forgot - you know more about football than the longest tenured head coach in the NFL.

[beyond the sea]

when you talk at all, you bring a mark twain quote to mind. -- I think that "flirting" comment may be adapted from Twain!

but I forgot - you know more about football than the longest tenured head coach in the NFL. -- You give me too much credit.

You seem like a nice enough kid, remember Robert Byrd has a sh*tload of tenure in the Senate too. Sometimes tenure will work against a person. Sometimes it breeds an unwanted rigidity and conservativism in folks.

;-)

Speaking of "knowing more", you may enjoy this quote from QB and sports analyst Joe Theisman on genius and football:

"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." LOL!

Here, have another one from Don Shula on the subject of luck in football:

"Sure, luck means a lot in football. Not having a good quarterback is bad luck."

LOL!

[beyond the sea]

Not trying to wear this out (really) but I just ran across these letters to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Yes, they're just fans, but I thought I'd pass them along to you. I especially liked the one where the guy writes of, "hiring a math expert to stand on the sideline for coach BillCowher".

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I am interested to know if the Steelers thought about the possibility of hiring a math expert to stand on the sideline for coach BillCowher. He took momentum from his team [by kicking the field goal on the 2]. Even with the field goal, it still required his team to have two touchdowns to win the game or at least one touchdown and a two-point conversion to tie it or a touchdown and two field goals to win. Besides his team was still required to keep the Patriots from scoring.

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"I'd do it again." That's exactly why Cowher needs to go. He won't, though, and that's exactly why the Steelers will never win a Super Bowl with him. Playing not to lose when you're down by 14 late in a playoff game, against a team that you can't even keep off the scoreboard. He's an idiot, pure and simple. There wasn't a single person watching anywhere that even considered for one second that he would kick a field goal there, but he did.

If I were a Steelers player, I would have walked off the field and emptied my locker before Reed even teed it up.

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He needed to go for it on fourth down from the 2 when the score was 31-17. A field goal at that point was simply too conservative and indicated that we felt we were the weaker team.

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And when the coaches chose a field goal over a 2-yard touchdown attempt as time began to dwindle, they said as much to the world that they believed that they could not win. Next time Bill, go for it.

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Yep, next time Bill, go for it!

Only about 170 days 'til training camp. ;-)