Reynolds Wrap Rant

Ok, with football season winding down, I just wanted to write down some things that annoyed me this, and every other year about football. Some things I had noticed before and some things I hadn’t.

Let me preface this by saying that football (college or pro) is the greatest game that there is. The ultimate team game and the only one of our major sports that encourages outright violence and gives one opponent the ability to impose its will on the other (except for boxing I guess, but hey I said major sports).

If I hear one more commentator say “Chase Daniels” instead of Daniel; I might jump head first into a dumpster fire. Hey, I don’t like Mizzou and don’t pull for Daniel, but good Lord the kid’s name is Daniel….no "s" on the end. You guys are supposed to be professionals, come on!! Oh, and just so we can get this straight commentator guys, there is no such thing as a forward latera. It does not exist. Look it up in Webster’s and you will see that you cannot have a “forward” lateral. It would be called an illegal forward pass. And for that matter, anything passed backwards is just that: a backwards pass, not a lateral!

The thing that really drives me crazy is the next one. I am in fact trying to calm myself down now as I type so that I am not too enraged by simply writing it down. It is called a "shovel pass". Not shuttle and not shuffle. A shuttle is what you ride to the airport and shuffle is what a senior citizen does on the sidewalk on the way to Luby’s. Shovel pass!

With respect to the game itself, I have a few rants there too. The next player that fields a punt inside the 10 yard line should be fined (NFL) or benched by the special teams coach. There is nothing good that can happen from fielding a punt inside the 10 yard line. As a special teams coach, I would completely accept it if a punter could make a punt bite and sit down inside the 10 yard line like Tiger Woods with a sand wedge. I’ll take my chances. I mean as the punt returner put your heels on the ten and don’t you dare move a step backwards. I pretty much go hoarse from screaming at the TV about this next one. As a quarterback when you are scrambling out of the pocket and trying to avoid being sacked if you run out of bounds and take the loss of yards without throwing the ball away you should never be allowed to play the position again, ever! It’s pretty much the most routine and obvious thing you can do which is throw the ball away. I’m not even complaining about trying to make a play down field or running for the first down that’s fine, I understand you have to run out of bounds, but throw the ball away.

I’m sure that I could think of a few more but believe me my blood is starting to boil and the bad thing is I’ve got a little over seven months before I have regular football to watch, dissect, and scream about. I guess that is the beauty of this game. I am so in love with it that I can sit and scream at the TV and pull for my favorite team and come back for more the next week with a smile on my face.

Peace Out,


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