Football !

The baseball season is officially over. Red Sox won the World Champions, again. Now it is the perfect timing for being a football fan, especially if you live in New England.

This season's Patriots is very likely the best and most dominant team in NFL history, even better than the "19-0 Dolphins" 35 years ago. Tom Brady, Patrioits' quarterback, is having the stat which you thought can only happen in NFL video games.

Sometimes people complain the rules in American football are too complicate. Actually it's not quite true. To make it simple, there are only 3 things you need to know -

1. Push the ball to the other team's baseline. You score.
2. You have 4 chances/downs to push the ball for at least 10 yards.
3. Each down, the ball can only be passed forward once.

All three are easy to understand, but the last one is not as known as the first two. Here is a great example showing how it works. This just happened several days ago. Trinity University did 15 lateral passes to get a touchdown and win the game from behind. Amazing!

10/27/2007 Trinity University 28 - Millsaps 24 End Zone Angle



End Zone angle of the final play of Trinity vs. Millsaps Football. Down 24-16, the Tigers were left with two seconds and 60 yards to go for a score. 15 laterals and 62 seconds later, Trinity crossed the goal line to win the game and take the upper hand in the conference standings.