The classic shout is “How was that?!” Often abbreviated to “HOWZAT?!”
As in:
Patient: “Doctor, I have a cricket ball stuck up my arse.”
Doctor: “How was that?”
Patient: “Don’t you fucking start.”
Texas Longhorns, 2022 NCAA Volleyball Champions
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Jermaine O’Neal (NBA) and Brian Skinner (Baylor/NBA) have daughters in the UT team.
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The North Shore v Duncanville game was pretty nuts.
WTF?
Rodeos are the stupidest, cruelest entertainment imaginable. It’s like pro wrestling for dumbass cowboys, with bonus animal abuse and death.
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“Bondage games with barnyard animals” as Jim Rome described it once a few decades ago.
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I really liked the new offside technology used at the World Cup. One of the issues with how VAR decides this now, is that they are essentially guessing when the ball was kicked, which is the pivotal moment in the decision. They could select one frame and the player would be onside, but delay it to the next frame, and his big toe may be past the last defender’s right earlobe.
Now the ball is tracked, which means the moment of impact is registered by the ball and it takes the guesswork/incompetence out of at least that element of the process.
They should do something similar with American football to track the position of the ball exactly.
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The problem is that on a lot of football plays that matter the most, the ball is completely surrounded by a mass of humanity. In soccer the ball is usually reasonably out in the open.
It seems they should be able to imbed the ball with some sort of gizmology that can be tracked locally.
I think this would help, no? You would be able to determine the extent of forward progress in the pile, at least. On regular plays they already use replay to ascertain the progress of the ball.
But then you wouldn’t be able to appreciate the absurdity of multiple highly subjective spot checks by the referees, followed by the very specific (yet still manipulatable) chain measurement to determine a close first down.
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If your students are having a hard time coming to grips with the difference between accuracy and precision in measurement, this is a great example of a high-precision, low-accuracy measurement.
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Four years ago today.
That goal from Townsend.
One of my all time favorite coach meltdowns came after a team got the ball at the 20 on a touchback. They were awarded a first down at the 30, then a few plays later a second first down at the 39. The defense’s coach was screaming, but they brought out the chains, and low and behold they were well past the marker, even though the ball was well short, like a full yard, short of the 40-yard line. He’s wondering how in the hell they could get two first downs in 19 yards, but the refs kept pointing at the chains. The chain don’t lie, apparently.
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This is terrific.
Being this good is just mind-boggling to me.
Wait for it…
Wait…what?!