AFC Championship

[Bill Campbell]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005, Ron Kracht wrote:
>On 24 Jan 2005 at 21:29, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005, ryanx at indy.rr.com wrote:
>> >On Mon, Jan 24, 2005 at 05:13:02PM -0800, Bill Campbell said:
>> >
>> >> On Mon, Jan 24, 2005, Henry Melancon wrote:
>> >> >Pro Football is for "real" men and not whiney babies!!!!
>> >> 
>> >> Nah!  That's Rugby or Lacrosse.  Pro Football has too much time out
>> >> for resting.
>> >
>> >You might call it resting, some call it ligament surgery, knee
>> >reconstruction, or compound-fractures with a coach breathing down
>> >your neck and saying "feeling better yet?".
>> >
>> >Besides, lacrosse is for for girls. And rugby, I dunno. They get so
>> >muddy you can't tell who is who.
>> 
>> Lacrosse is for girls?  Perhaps you have it confused with field
>> hockey. Where I went to college, Johns Hopkins University, football
>> was something to keep lacrosse players in shape in the off-season. 
>> The first lacross game I ever saw was at West Point, and a couple of
>> guys came off the field spitting teeth.
>> 
>
>It looks like they didn't pound it into you enough that it is THE 
>Johns Hopkins University. They tried to give us the impression 
>during freshman orientation that leaving off the 'The' was 
>grounds for expulsion.  

I guess I forgot that part.  After all, it's been a bit over 44 years since
I sat through it :-).

>I haven't seen much lacrosse in recent years but the rules 
>were interpreted back in the 60s to say that as long as your 
>stick hit the opposing players stick there was no foul. It didn't 
>matter if 90% of the contact was stick to body (or stick to 
>head) as long as there was that 10% stick to stick contact.

I never played lacrosse so don't know the rules.  I do remember that when
Hopkins played Maryland, the refs had ``interesting'' interpretations that
always seemed to favor Maryland.

I generally avoid ``sports'' where physical pain is a normal part of the
action.  This is also why I didn't race motorcycles.  At least racing
formula cars, pain was the exception, not the rule.  In thirteen years of
racing, I had only one incident where I was seriously hurt, and that was my
own fault.  I forgot to put on my driving shoes for a Sunday warm up
practice, got my welding boots stuck between the pedals, and was t-boned
breaking my pelvis.

Bill
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