American football is like rugby with all the bits I understand taken out. Admittedly that leaves plenty to be getting on with, but it seems to consist pretty much entirely of men charging directly at one another. That can’t be the most efficient way to accomplish anything. To make it even more confusing, when I tuned in no one was doing anything at all. I’d heard there were pauses in the play, but hadn’t expected them to last half an hour.
I gather though that the power cut is not an official aspect of the sport. Which is a shame, in many ways it seemed the best bit. Like the half-time show but with far more scope for improvisation. You’d think this would be cripplingly embarrassing to the Americans, having probably their most-watched event globally turning into an advert for inadequate engineering. Fortunately however they can all blame it on the political party they don’t support, thereby avoiding any conception of collective failure. Democracy in inaction.
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There was a 10 minute power outage near the end of the first half of Saturday’s match between Fulham and Manchester United, and London hasn’t recently had any category five hurricanes responsible for damaging its infrastructure that I’m aware of.
Sometimes lights just go off.
Hi Richard, looks like a decision table to my poor tired eyes…
So if the conditions include Safety and Tackle, the action you need to take is Guard. Right…