why they call it the redzone?
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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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RTD = retired\nThis is when the fight is stopped by the corner.
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Most people are too retarded to know about football and the team's nicknames. It's the Red Devils not the Reds, some people just dont know.
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Because the crosstown or intrastate games would make for the best rivalries. You always want your biggest rival to be the last game, because you will be most prepared, and it may save an otherwise disappointing season. You also have the entire off season for bragging rights and recruiting.
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You know, they're really into naming teams after those nouns that can't be counted, like the Miami Heat, right?\n\nNew Mexico Dust\nNew Mexico Sky\nNew Mexico Outlaws\nNew Mexico Enchantment (from the state nickname)\nSanta Fe Express\n\n...ahh, those are just off the top of my head.
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All of the major airports use to say that all the time in the 70's and maybe early 80's.\n\nAlso check these out:\n\n"Red Zone/White Zone\nIn the beginning of the film, at the airport, there are male and female PA system announcers saying where drivers can and cannot stop their vehicles, referring to the areas as the "Red zone" and the "White zone". Initially both say "The White zone is for immediate loading and unloading of passengers only. There is no stopping in the Red zone." The male announcer swaps the two areas, and they begin to argue. Suddenly the female announcer claims the argument is about the male wanting her to get an abortion, to which the male claims it is "the only sensible thing to do". The gag is usually cut out on TV airings."\n\nhttp://www.skepticfiles.org/en001/airpln.htm
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I know the game! The bean-bag tossing game, right? But I'm with you, everytime I bring it up no one knows what I'm talking about. We played in Indiana. Maybe it's just a midwest thing.\n\nBut still, I tend to think of "A" when I hear it.\n\nUPDATE: According to the following article, it may have originated in Cincinnati and has spread throughout Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee ans West Virginia. So it is a midwest thing. \nhttp://www.enquirer.com/editions/2002/07/14/spt_worlds_best-kept.html\n\nDid you know there is an American Cornhole Association? I think that's hilarious.\nhttp://www.playcornhole.org/
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It is fast and many people can't follow the puck.  Others do not like the fighting that is sometimes involved.  \n\nHockey is a 'cold weather' game and a lot of the US and southern hemisphere countries don't have the availability of ice rinks to play/practice on and it can't be done outside.  Thus is wasn't something they played as a kid and hold on to fondly as an adult.\n\nAnd let's face it, girls in volleyball uniforms are much cuter than guys in oversized shorts and lots of pads.
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to beat a zone,  u had to go to dribbing pentration to make the zone defense  work.  zone defense work on where  the ball is.   dribbling pentration they would had to concentrate on the ball dribbler not the other players
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It actually was added in 2002 I believe they have had one every year since or almost every year since. Orginally the Superbowl was played the last week of January. On that schedule sometimes you would have 5 Sundays in Jan. so if you had 5 then there would be a bye week. In 2002 there wasn't going to be one. The problem was the canceled week. So they had to push it up a week with the rest of the schedule. Well the stadium was already booked for that week. So they had to delay it a week.
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i guess its just something that caught on...... like  how in football there is a red zone........ no more red than in any other part of the field!!
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I think it's called the exclusion zone.
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A red-light district is a neighborhood where prostitution businesses flourish, so named for the practice of placing a red light in the window to indicate to customers the nature of the business.\n\nSome say the origin of the red light comes from the red lanterns carried by railway workers, which were left outside brothels when the workers entered, so that they could be quickly located for any needed train movement. [1] One of the many terms used for a red-light district in Japanese is akasen (赤線), literally meaning "red-line", apparently of independent origins from the English term. In different cultures red-light districts are identified differently, the most common being "district of prostitutes" (i.e. in Hindi - Randi Guli or Street of Prostitutes; in Bengali - Khanki Para or Neighbourhood of Prostitutes\n\nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_light_district
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it's shaq.  they had to change rules every year because of him.  the hand check, the zone defense, the no charge zone.
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Why do we call the places we drive parkways and the places we park driveways?
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There are previous competitions by zones of the world and there are  places assigned for each zone. for example in my area Notch, Central America and the Caribbean there are four places right now USA, Mexico, Costa Rica and Trinidad & Tobago, tehre is European Zone, Africa, Asia and Oceania
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WHY IS IT GOING OVER THERE FOR??? HOCKEY IS EVEN PLAYED THERE?