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Actually, Rubgy got the touch down from our side of the pond. It was first used by McGill University, then Harvard adopted it. And you did actually have to touch the ball down to score. That part of the rule was eventually removed in the 1890's. The reason why Rugby called the touch down a try is because you had to get a touch down in order to "try" to kick a goal. They called it a try before the touch down was invented, and it didn't count as any points then. After college football in the US started using the touch down as an actual score, Rugby adopted it as a scoring play but kept the earlier name. You still get to "try" a field goal after scoring a try or touch down...

How is Andre Roberts a top 3 we for the AFC? He only had 3 catches this season!

Schools in the Northeast were playing "mob" style games they called football as early as the 1840's. At Harvard they called it "football fightum" and had a yearly game called "Bloody Monday" where the Freshman class would play the Sophomore class. The rugby style game was still called "football" they just wanted to be able to carry it as well as kick it.

It was first used in the late 1800's. https://www.etymonline.com/word/soccer

This is super interesting to my inner nerd. Our football, soccer and rugby were the same game about 150 years ago. Or rather, there were as many iterations and rules of the game as there were colleges. In the US, as in England, the rules of the game were determined by the home team. One thing that was common was that all fields had soccer goals. In US college football, long before down and distance, and before the Touch Down was invented at McGill University in Montreal, the way a team scored was by running or kicking the ball down field and into the soccer goal. An oddity of the time was that there were no rules pertaining to how many players could be on the field at a time, and since there was no down or distance it was a free moving game, like soccer and rugby. So the home team was at a decided advantage. They would stash 20-30 defenders in front of the goal to make a human shield and block the net so that even if the opposing team could get the ball down field past their 200-300 man mob, it was virtually impossible to score. This seeming unfair practice resulted in the American football field goal posts that we know today. The posts were placed on the top corners of the soccer goals in order to prevent teams from blocking the goal with men. That's why you'll still see some high schools with soccer goals and field goal posts on top of them to this day. After 18 players died during the 1904 season, President Theodore Roosevelt threatened to cancel the sport unless rules and safety equipment were put in place. This lead to leather helmets, and down and distance being introduced into the game... In England, there were similar problems with differing rules. They decided to encode the "Law of Football," and enacted the oldest existing body in sports, the Footbll Association, or FA. The FA decided on rules that became English football or soccer, essentially making it illegal to tackle and stomp people. The schools that preferred the more violent aspects of the game were centered at Rugby school, and encoded the laws of Rugby Football. The British press, needing to abbreviate the two sports in the newspaper settled on RUG for Rugby football, but couldn't use ASS for Association Football. Instead, they used SOC, which lead to the slang term in England - Soccer. In America, we picked up on the English slang, while they stopped using so long ago that calling it soccer seems foreign to them... In short, when college football began here in the US, there was no forward pass, the ball had to be lateraled or kicked forward, and scoring happened when the ball was kicked into a soccer goal. So it was football, for all intents and purpose. The TD only came into our game after Harvard traveled to McGill in 1874 and liked the rule so much that they incorporated it into their rules back in Cambridge. Today's soccer, rugby and American football all have common origins prior to each of the games carving out their own unique rules.

Madden has a no kicking game you can play online called Super Star KO. Each team gets one drive to score. Most points win. What's really interesting is how it settles ties... The ball gets placed at the 50, and each team alternates offensive plays. 4 plays each. If one team scores a TD, game over. But otherwise the team wins who forces the ball in the opponents side of the 50 when it's all said and done. This could be a much more dramatic way to settle ties in OT during the regular season.

I'm sure he's a much better QB when the threat of being hit isn't real. I have no doubt he suffered a head injury when he got hit against the Cardinals and he was never the same on the field.

I remember games when the refs would stop play, and threaten the Bills with penalties if the crowd didn't quiet down. 80,000 maniacs pounding those metal seats and screaming their heads off! But I also think there's something to the idea that there's more pressure on the home team in high stress games, particularly with a fan base like ours that lives and ides on every play. We really know how to panic while watching a football game.

We're undefeated at home in the playoffs in the last 24 years! But seriously, I don't buy into the idea that having that big outdoor stadium in the dead of Buffalo winter is an advantage to the Bills. Like yeah, Kelly was special. But that window is closed, and every Bills QB since has struggled in those conditions. I don't really see freezing, swirling winds as a positive to QB growth and development.

This is pretty cool. Demone Harris went to Timon, and Jody Fortson went to South Park.

He's got a whole lotta auto tune.

I saw enough from what Russell Wilson and Matt Ryan could do against their D to know that Mahomes will have success... There's no way they are going to take Hill out of the game. How many times did you see him or Hardiman running crazy motion at the snap of the ball yesterday? They are deadly.

Wishful thinking all the way around my friend.... we shall see...

So the 9er's have to commit pass interference on Hill every play. All righty then. Sure, if they can hold him and interfere with him all game and not get called for it then I agree, they have a shot at shutting them down.

Johnny Manziel and Geno Smith... Those were the QB's that many experts worried that Mahomes would follow.

Mahomes can kill you if you blitz frequently. You need to be able to rush 4 and get home while playing blanket coverage. How many teams can do that all game? The 9er's can't take Kelce, Hill, Watkins and Hardiman all away on every single play. They have to pick their poison. Teams can be successful early with schemes to limit Hill or Kelce, but the Chiefs are great at adjusting and punishing the opponent because they have 4 solid play makers in the passing attack. They can also go on huge runs at any point in the game. Getting shut down early has almost no baring on what they will be able to exploit later in the game.

Well if you say so. I guess the Chiefs only have two drives to win then... What?

And what exactly about Mahomes ability to lead that offense on back to back to back quick strike, soul crushing TD drives makes that the case?

This is like blaming yourself for not winning the lottery... Nobody knew Mahomes was going to be this good. There were recent QB's with his level of production in college that didn't pan out, Johnny Manziel and Geno Smith come to mind. You can't blame an organization for not winning the lottery on a pick that was surrounded in uncertainty, but that isn't going to stop Sully. The guy is a creature who feeds off of negative emotions, looks for excuses to revel in them. I kind of feel sorry for the guy, I couldn't imagine having a career were the highlight of my craft was rooted in being a mean spirited prick.

No way they shut down Mahomes and crew like that.

2 of the 4 need to come through the draft.

This game feels like it's over.

I'm taking about someone to replace Lorax.

My dad's still pissed the Bills traded Daryl Lamonica. ?

If we can get a true thumper at SAM, a dominate edge rusher, a solid 1-tech and a 2nd shut down cb, we could win it all with defense.