Or, the other player ran over the line, and then Favre threw him the ball. Either way, the receiver gets credit for a touchdown reception and six points scored. Favre gets credit for throwing a touchdown pass.
In chess terms, imagine if your pieces were a team, and you were tabulating how many times each piece executed a discovered check. One piece moves out of the way and another gives check. So every time you as a team gave dc, one of your pieces would be credited with “giving a dc” and a different piece would be credited with “uncovering a dc”.
storyteller nailed the answer more perfectly than any answer has ever been nailed.
However, for the TLDR types, I’ll give my (shorter) answer:
Brett Favre is the George W. Bush of quarterbacks.
GWB is the millionaire Harvard and Yale-educated son of a President and former head of the CIA who spent virtually his entire career in Washington, yet managed to attain the Presidency passing himself off as a Washington outsider and downhome woodsy good 'ol boy.
Favre is a millionaire a hundred times over with a supermodelish wife, and a total prima donna who has hijacked the Packers’ (I hate the Pack, FTR) offseasons and training camps for half a decade- solely to get himself a few more column inches in Sports Illustrated and an extra mention on the Milwaukee network affiliate nightly newscasts- but who passes himself off as a downhome “aw shucks” woodsy good ol’ boy.
They are, in short, the antithesis of the thinking-man’s President/QB (Gerald Ford and Peyton Manning, in case you’re wondering): they both bring out the stupid in people.
I guess we’re not allowed to have a thread around here that doesn’t have political snark in it anymore. Good on you for bringing us up to code, RNATB. :rolleyes:
If you read the rest of my post, you’ll note that the comparison centers on how brilliant GWB’s campaign strategy was, not on his character/skills/intellect/whatever. I suppose you could say I’m snarking about the electorate, but honestly, you’re kind of missing the point.
Storyteller you forgot the part where he has the record for the most money ever stolen in a career from a bank, using the plan of loading up a truck with gold bars and throwing it through the vault door, then taking the money.
For the record, I’ve never really hated Favre himself, just the ridiculous adulation and knob polishing from the sports media.
The only thing that amazes me about Favre tossing 6 TD’s yesterday is that he never did it against the Vikings. We’ve had some of the most porous, spacious defensive secondaries in NFL history. How did that never happen to us?
Since there has been a request, let me put this in chess terms.
You, a man in your early 80s, decide to play Gary Kasparov, and spot the young’un a rook. (That’s the one that looks like the castle tower.) You then proceed to advance six of your pawns to the eighth rank and avoid the embarrassment of stalemating Kasparov.
Oh, good…glad I could help. I wasn’t sure if you were asking how a touchdown is scored, what the term “threw for a touchdown” refers to, or how you score it in fantasy football. I THOUGHT it was the first, but then I wasn’t sure.
I think where you are getting confused is that there is a rule that once the ball crosses the line of scrimmage, you can’t execute a forward pass…at that point, you can only run with it (or passing it backwards, I think, is OK, too).
I know this thread is just over the border of Zombiehood for the pit but I also noticed it is barely a pit thread and there were no hostilities between posters.
