It’s dawning on me that one of the reasons I have always found football incomprehensible, and therefore boring, was that I cannot tell the actual play from the time when the ball is out of play, and the players are just getting into position.
I have this Young Sheldon on the DVR, and I reviewed it with all the new knowledge I’ve gained from this thread, and I have to say, the scales have fallen.
Apparently, there are not just two separate teams for offense and defense, but the team in charge of punting is yet a third team.
Since I started this thread, can I ask what exactly Charlie Brown is trying to do when Lucy pulls the ball away? Is that punting? would it be unacceptable thread drift to bring it up?
In case anyone is wondering, my parents were well-traveled native New Yorkers with PhDs, who knew 13 languages between them. They took me regularly to the MOMA, the Museum of Natural History, and the library. We also went to several Mets games. Among other places my parents took me were Washington, DC, colonial Williamsburg, Philadelphia and Boston in 1976; the Kotel; Yad VaShem; the Prague Jewish Quarter; Notre Dame; the Louvre; and Stonehenge. But never a football game. Nobody’s perfect.