3 ms·
An Army professor and former college football athlete described combat to our class once as “Football with guns”. It’s a gross reduction I’m sure but probably s
by breck 9y ago
An Army professor and former college football athlete described combat to our class once as “Football with guns”. It’s a gross reduction I’m sure but probably some truth to it.
- dekhn 9y agoI think George Carlin summed it up best: http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor7.shtml http://www.baseball-almanac.com/humor7.shtml Football is a twentieth-century technological struggle. Football is played on a gridiron, in a stadium, sometimes called Soldier Field or War Memorial Stadium. Football begins in the fall, when everything's dying. In football you wear a helmet. Football has hitting, clipping, spearing, piling on, personal fouls, late hitting and unnecessary roughness. Football is rigidly timed, and it will end even if we've got to go to sudden death. n football the object is for the quarterback, also known as the field general, to be on target with his aerial assault, riddling the defense by hitting his receivers with deadly accuracy in spite of the blitz, even if he has to use shotgun. With short bullet passes and long bombs, he marches his troops into enemy territory, balancing this aerial assault with a sustained ground attack that punches holes in the forward wall of the enemy's defensive line.