Trends

I don't know if anyone noticed the two trends this past weekend in the world of football. In college, there was the trend of teams scoring 50 or more points and in the NFL the number of games that had a team winning on the final play.

A ethical question arose on saturday night, while watching some of the Penn State Illinois game: How does Joe Pa play in the second half after scoring 56 points in the 1st? When playing a conference foe you don't want to run the score up on them because it might come back to huant you one day. But when you are playing a team, as bad as Illinois, how do you make it look as if you aren't running up the score? In the second half Penn State had their 3rd string in and they still could move the ball. This is a tough question for a coach unless your name is Steve Spurrier.


Quote of the week:
I think the nature of man is to be aggressive and football is a violent game. But I think the very violence is one of the great things about the game, because a man has to learn control. He is going to go in to knock somebody's block off, and yet he must keep a rein on it. I can't think of any other place that demands such discipline.
Vince Lombardi