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xaq_the_aereonThe other day, Dad and I were watching an episode of either "Sons of Guns" or "American Guns," one of the two...in it there was a bit where the shop owner bet an NFL punter that he could shoot a bunch of his field goal attempts out of the air with a shotgun. The last one was rigged up to explode in mid-air.
This gave us an idea for making the game of football (for my English friends' clarification, this is what Americans call football, not what the rest of the world does) a lot more exciting and action-packed:
Extend the play clock by 10 seconds, and ease up any play-ending stuff like dropping the ball and fumbling and whatnot to allow a second or two for someone to pick it back up. The play goes on for as long as someone's got the ball...or until the play clock runs out, at which point...
He's at the forty...the thirty...the twe**BOOOOM!!**Oooh, and #43 is down at the 22-yard line for a first down!
For added fun, cut the clock time for a field goal/extra point attempt down to 5 seconds. If it detonates before going through, too bad.
The kick is up, aaaand--OHHH, fell JUST short of the uprights!
After the 2-minute warning, the ball gets swapped out for one that won't detonate until the half/game is over...with, of course, a somewhat bigger payload inside.
Admit it, if they could do that without it being too dangerous, you'd watch. :b
This gave us an idea for making the game of football (for my English friends' clarification, this is what Americans call football, not what the rest of the world does) a lot more exciting and action-packed:
Extend the play clock by 10 seconds, and ease up any play-ending stuff like dropping the ball and fumbling and whatnot to allow a second or two for someone to pick it back up. The play goes on for as long as someone's got the ball...or until the play clock runs out, at which point...
He's at the forty...the thirty...the twe**BOOOOM!!**Oooh, and #43 is down at the 22-yard line for a first down!
For added fun, cut the clock time for a field goal/extra point attempt down to 5 seconds. If it detonates before going through, too bad.
The kick is up, aaaand--OHHH, fell JUST short of the uprights!
After the 2-minute warning, the ball gets swapped out for one that won't detonate until the half/game is over...with, of course, a somewhat bigger payload inside.
Admit it, if they could do that without it being too dangerous, you'd watch. :b
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