21 November 2013
Quote of the Day: A Football Life
From the episode on "The Forward Pass":
Narrator: In the beginning, there was only the run and the kick.
Expert #1: In the 19th century the two kinds of football were soccer and rugby -- neither of them allowed the forward pass. The forward pass is completely alien to the game of football. It is football, after all, not...something else. The earliest surviving film is from 1903 -- shot by Thomas Edison -- of the University of Chicago and Michigan. Basically, it's one line plunge after another.
Expert #2: There weren't many options for how to move the ball. Every play kind of looks like what you would expect from a goal line surge during a blizzard.
Narrator: In the beginning, there was only the run and the kick.
Expert #1: In the 19th century the two kinds of football were soccer and rugby -- neither of them allowed the forward pass. The forward pass is completely alien to the game of football. It is football, after all, not...something else. The earliest surviving film is from 1903 -- shot by Thomas Edison -- of the University of Chicago and Michigan. Basically, it's one line plunge after another.
Expert #2: There weren't many options for how to move the ball. Every play kind of looks like what you would expect from a goal line surge during a blizzard.
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# posted by mamurd @ 10:31 PM 
