who invented the option offense?
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Don Faurot at Missouri University around 1940. He got the idea while watching a basketball drill involving a 2-on-1 fast break.
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I think it was Eric Winston, University of Miami OT.  He ran a 4.96 forty.
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It's a trick play that is used by the offense at the right time when the opponent's defense is in a different formation. For example, they used a trick (gadget) play when Antwan Randall-El threw a touchdown to Hines Ward of an reverse in SB 40. \n\nThat was an excellent time to use it!
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I do not recall the names, but a couple of guys were having dinner in a restaurant called the Rotisserie in New York in the early 1980s and they devised the first fantasy baseball game.  In honor of the restaurant, they named it Rotisserie Baseball.  Since then, similar leagues in other major sports have developed.  They generally have similar rules, but obviously use different statistics.
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The Nash equilibrium (named after John Nash, who proposed it) is a kind of optimal collective strategy in a game involving two or more players, where no player has anything to gain by changing only his or her own strategy. If each player has chosen a strategy and no player can benefit by changing his or her strategy while the other players keep theirs unchanged, then the current set of strategy choices and the corresponding payoffs constitute a Nash equilibrium.\n\nJust to boost your memories, John Nash is the guy whom Russel Crowe portrayed in the movie "A Beautiful Mind"
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Garo Yepremian did it against the Vikings on November 13th, 1966.  He was the only Lion to do it until Jason hanson matched him in 1999, again against the Vikings.\n\nhttp://www.nfl.com/history/randf/records/indiv/fieldgoals
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Zone blitz. Have one of your DEs back into coverage and blitz two of your LBs. Very confusing to the opposing QB.
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Good question! I didnt know the answer so I looked on the internet and found this:\n\nThe best evidence obtainable at present points to Manute Bol, the 7'7" Sudanese NBA player whose native tongue was Dinka, as the inventor, sometime in the 1980s, of this now–ubiquitous phrase.\n\nGeoffrey K. Pullum told the story in his December 7, 2005 blog post:\n\nHere is the relevant portion: \nKen Arneson emailed me to say that he heard the phrase was first used by the Sudanese immigrant basketball player Manute Bol, believed to have been a native speaker of Dinka (a very interesting and thoroughly un-Indo-Europeanlike language of the Nilo-Saharan superfamily). \n\nSays Arneson, "I first heard the phrase here in the Bay Area when Bol joined the Golden State Warriors in 1988, when several Warriors players started using the phrase." \n\nAnd Ben Zimmer's rummaging in the newspaper files down in the basement of Language Log Plaza produced a couple of early 1989 quotes that confirm this convincingly:\n\nSt. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jan. 10, 1989: When he [Manute Bol] throws a bad pass, he'll say, "My bad" instead of "My fault," and now all the other players say the same thing.\n\nUSA Today, Jan. 27, 1989: After making a bad pass, instead of saying "my fault," Manute Bol says, "my bad." Now all the other Warriors say it too.\n\nSo all of this is compatible with a date of origin for the phrase in the early 1980s (Manute Bol first joined the NBA in 1985 but came to the USA before that, around 1980). \n\nProfessor Ron McClamrock of the Philosophy Department at SUNY Albany tells me he recalls very definitely hearing the phrase on the basketball court when he was in graduate school at MIT in the early 1980s, so the news stories above could be picking the story up rather late; but it is still just possible that Manute Bol was the originator, because he played for Cleveland State and Bridgeport University in the early 1980s, and his neologism just could have spread from there to other schools in the northeast, such as MIT.
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Ronnie Brown....\n\nHe's been the only consistant offensive option in Miami all year.  He's gotten 100 yds + and at least a TD in every game he's played to this point.\n\nGood luck!
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BFORE OR AFTER THE GAME GET THE PERSON WHO HIT IT TO SIGN AND DATE IT
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Uncle Moneybags.\n\nOh, wait, that's Monopoly. The correct answer: Abraham Lincoln.
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allen iverson\nthen latrel spreewell\nbut A.I. is the originator
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It could have became easy to draft Bush and play hostage negotiator with his draft rights, but they must have felt that draft Williams was the player to change the franchise cause you've heard the saying, defense wins championships and Mario Williams must have been the best chance  in their professional opinion for championship like defense, though I say its more of a start.
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John H is right here but like him I can't find why Dave Plati called it the Red Zone.\n\nThank you John H this is the reason it was called the Red Zone\n\nPlati, CU's director of media relations the past 21 years, always has been, as he says, "a stats guy."\nIt was through his love of football and number-crunching that he devised what now is referred to as\nthe "red zone." He still was a student at CU when he first brought the statistic to life.\n"I always wanted to track different things, different stats," the 1982 Colorado graduate said. "I\nstarted tracking it, I believe, in 1980. But I never called it the red zone. I first called it 'penetrating\nthe 20.' Then, 'scoring percentage inside the 20.' Now, I put 'red zone' in parentheses on our stat\nsheets."\nPlati knows he's not the first person to recognize the importance of scoring when a team ventures\nclose to the end zone, but he says he was the first to keep track of it.\n"I don't want to say I was the first to invent it, but I was the first to chart it," he said. "I've got the\ndocumentation to back it up. Unfortunately, there is no money in inventing a stat."\nBut there is the satisfaction of developing a new, usable tool.
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yep, great college player, couldnt hack it in the nfl after signing as an undrafted free agent, plays in the canadian league now
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roger staubach with the cowboys, \nphil mcconkey on the giants
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I can't remember who they played but game was played in Mission Viego. Holiday Bowl  when he played for BYU .They were behind six points he threw a pass that was deflected to him and he ran it in to win game. Seconds left if I remember correctly