I gotta say, I love the sack on this guy. I like a guy who won’t go belly up and resign, or give a contrite apology even when he’s caught on tape committing the cimes. I love the defiance. I love the whole “Fuck you. Prove it” mentality. The entertainment value is phenomenal. This is like going for it on 4th and 50 from your own 1 yard line. Thank you, Governor Blagojevich, for going all out and giving us the best for our entertainment value. You’re going to go down in flames, but you’re going leave it all on the field and take nothing back to the locker room. That’s all we can ask of any scandal plagued politician.
He’ll resign slightly ahead of the descent of the headsman’s axe. Then he’ll be all apologetic. We might even get to see a press conference involving him, his wife, and, probably, his preacher.
-Joe
Okay, I’m going to have to break down and read Football for Dummies so I can become culturally literate. Can someone please translate the bolded section into English?
It’s like having one hit point left and deciding to attack the Turbonium Dragon head-on with a +1 Dagger of Superficial Injury.
I’m rather hoping he stays defiant because it’ll make any last minute contrition that much more transparent.
Maybe reality is finally settling in for him. He’s arrogant and oblivious enough that, at least to date, he savored any spotlight. Good, bad, pfffft; didn’t matter.
He’s goin’ down. I love it.
I didn’t say DUNGEONS & DRAGONS terms.
I’ll take English, Italian, or Chess.
Losing all your pieces but your king and one pawn - but you’re still convinced you can make a checkmate against an opponent who still has his full back row loose on the board.
-Joe
Thanks!
A football team has, effectively, 4 tries to move the ball 10 yards down the field towards their opponents’ goal. If they can advance 10 yards or more in 4 or fewer plays, they get another 4 tries to go further, and possibly score a goal.
If, say, the quarterback gets “sacked” (knocked down behind the “line of scrimmage” (where the ball starts)), they’ve lost yards, so it’s possible to have more than 10 yards to go in their subsequent tries. This could also happen if they get penalized for a foul of some sort.
A team that is 4th and 50 from their own 1 yard line means that they are on their 4th attempt to keep their turn, so if they don’t advance the ball the necessary 50 yards, the ball automatically gets turned over to their opponents from wherever it ends up, which is likely to be very close to their own goal line, making it easier for the other team to score against them. A team almost never tries to advance the ball on their final down, but instead, will usually opt to “punt” it in an effort to kick the ball as far down field and away from their own goal as possible.
Basically, 4th and 50 from your own 1 yard line is a pretty shitty position to be in.
“'e’s bloody well scuppered, 'e is! 'is wicket can’t get any stickier than this.”
(Never mind.)
English: It’s like an Englishman thinking he’ll win a nicest-smile contest.
Italian: It’s like picking a fight with the mafia because hey, you’ve got a pocketknife to defend yourself.
Chess: It’s like putting on a revival of *Chess * because you’ve always wanted to win a Tony.
Wait…you can **commit **a penalty? I thought that penalties were assigned to you when you committed a foul or whatnot. And issues of nomenclature aside, why would something Team A commits cause that team to have to lose territory? I would have thought that Team B would have to do something to earn the territory.
Yeah, it can have entertainment value.
But as a lifelong Illinoisian, I really wouldn’t mind it all that much if our gov and legislature actually spent a little time governing and legislating…
This might be a little cliche, but very fitting:
“Committing a penalty” in North American sports lexicon means “committing a foul and getting a penalty assigned by the officials”.
It was deemed to be the best way to punish fouls in football.
If a player on the offense does something against the rules (commits a penalty), the referee punishes the offensive team by penalizing them yards. If it’s a player on the defense who does something against the rules, the referee punishes the defensive team by giving the offense yards.
If someone from Team A, who has the ball and is trying to advance it, say, grabs hold of one of their opponents’ face masks to pull them down to the ground, that is a foul, for which the whole team will be penalized by moving the ball further back from where it started, forcing them to have to go even further to keep their turn or score a goal. The number of yards a team loses is based on the severity of the foul. Here’s a list of them.
Well played, sir!
It’s like being down to your last flying monkey and explaining your dastardly plan to the hero whilst his sidekicks finish loading their ammo clips.
Man, I’m really glad real life doesn’t have a “no lawnchair” rule, cause I’m SO pulling up a lawnchair to watch the fireworks on this mo-fo.