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2007
The Golden
Boy, A Novel
By Oliver
William
Preface
Ahh, a great football game. Whether
you are a football fan or not, you could imagine that this could happen.
A good arm chair quarterback watches the plays from our living
room, and he or she knows what should have been done.
We know, sitting there in our easy chair, don’t we?
We have seen so many games on television.
Fans have hours invested in the knowledge of how the game of
football is played with a billion dollar technology of video presentation
and instant replays. The fan
has a birds eye view from the several angles provided for us, not to
mention stats that are data sorted, keeping us informed of what the real
ability of a player is, a perpetual grade card.
Funny thing, which one of us would indeed have that magic touch, to
be able to take the team to super bowl, after super bowl, an unbeatable
record, an unbeatable coach? Is
this is a person that has learned from his or her easy chair?
Maybe being bred from within the system clouds the mind and
prevents knowing the right plays, strategy, and might indeed pollute the
mind with commonalities in thinking that everyone shares within the
coaching staffs. Maybe this
prevents them from thinking totally independent and with fresh ideas that
might be the right ones. Is it
a possibility that the gift of genius that could produce consistent wins,
is stuck in that easy chair, to never have that chance?
More play action passes; more pump fakes; reverses; flea flickers;
how about a team that has these kinds of plays much more frequently!
How about a coach that has a whole new set of plays that we do not
have a name for? How about a
coach that runs quarterbacks through three quarters on the average, every
single game, then puts in that regular relief quarterback, just like a
relief pitcher of a baseball game. Maybe
he would create a team that could consistently throw off their opponent
and have a magic ability to fake them out and throw them off,
consistently! Someone out
there just might have that magic touch and those right answers.
To some of us fans, it seems so obvious what our loosing team did
wrong and how to win, game after game… |
