killer cacti Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Crack back block Quote Link to comment
HuckFoley Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 Flashback?? Quote Link to comment
HUSKER 37 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 I asked this last week at work.. Where did all the "back" names originate in feetball? Quote Link to comment
HuckFoley Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 Back in Black? this is getting easy now Quote Link to comment
killer cacti Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Block in the Back? Quote Link to comment
HuckFoley Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 Get Back Quote Link to comment
HuckFoley Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 gotta love killer cacti for staying on topic! Quote Link to comment
huKSer Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 "Holding on the Nebraska offensive line moves them back 10 yards" Quote Link to comment
killer cacti Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 gotta love killer cacti for staying on topic! This guy don't lose focus... Backfield Back judge Quote Link to comment
HuckFoley Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 Funny guy goes Back for Beer Quote Link to comment
HUSKER 37 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 5/8s back? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Am...tball_positions Being variants of 19th Century rugby football,[2] American and Canadian football position nomenclature as its origin there. Early rugby did no more than distinguish in tactics between the great bulk of the players who played as forwards and the relative few who played back defensively as "tends", as in goaltenders. After a while, the attacking or at least counterattacking possibilities of playing close behind the scrimmage (which later came to be called "scrummage") came to be recognized, and some players stationed themselves between the forwards and tends as "half-tends". It being seen that the players outside scrimmage (the "pack", i.e. the forwards) were not limited to a defensive role, the tends and half-tends were renamed "back" and "half back" positions. As the game became more sophisticated, backs positioned at different depths (i.e. distances behind the forwards) were further differentiated into half back, three quarters (the fraction 3/4) back, and full back, according to English and Scottish nomenclature, or quarter back, half back, and full back in the Irish nomenclature. In rugby the English-Scottish nomenclature was eventually adopted worldwide, with the word, 'back," often omitted for brevity from the half back ("half") and three quarters back ("three quarter") names, and "fullback" as a single word. In some systems, "five-eighths back" has been added. (The illustration here, of singular forms, should not be construed as indicating the number of players in any of those positions, nor is the fraction in the name at all proportional to the actual depth of the position; they indicate only a quirky form of ordinal number, not cardinality.) Having the backs at different depths facilitates passing movements in which the ball is tossed from one player to (usually) the next closest, such that each back receiving the ball in turn can be running forward and yet not ahead of the player who threw it, forward passing of the ball being illegal. Because of the involvement of the 3/4 backs, such a movement is often called a three-quarters movement. It was the Irish nomenclature of quarter back, half back, and full back that came to North America for use in what was to become the dominant native form of football. The terms became hyphenated and eventually unhyphenated single words, "quarterback" (QB), "halfback" (HB), and "fullback" (FB). The lack of quarterback in the English-Scottish nomenclature for rugby led to the position name "scrum-half" to distinguish the halfback playing close to scrimmage (renamed "scrummage" or "scrum") from another who would "stand off" from it or "fly" away — the "stand-off" or "fly-half". Quote Link to comment
HUSKER 37 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Meanwhile, this one time at SEC/Big12 Referee traing camp... 9vNXXfdo4tU And for those that want to sing along... BACKFIELD IN MOTION Mel & Tim - 1969 Backfield in motion, yeah, I'm gonna have to penalize you Backfield in motion, baby, You know that's against the rules. Off side and holdin, yeah, You ought a be ashamed of yourself baby Offside and holdin yeah, Holdin on to some one else You know you're cheatin baby, Ffakin the bout You know you're balking, baby, (oh yeah) strike three you're out And I caught you with Backfield in motion, yeah, I'm gonna have to penalize you Backfield in motion, baby, You know that's against the rules. First down you start cheatin' on me Second down, I was too blind to see Third down, you know I love you so Fourth down, baby I got to let you go, Cus I caught you with your Backfield in motion, yeah, I'm gonna have to penalize you Backfield in motion, baby, You know that's against the rules. Now you will see, ah yeah, just how I felt You beat me to the punch honey, But you hit me below the belt And I caught you with your Backfield in motion, yeah, I'm gonna have to penalize you Backfield in motion, baby, You know that's against the rules. Backfield in motion, backfield in motion... Backfield in motion, backfield in motion... Quote Link to comment
HuckFoley Posted November 12, 2009 Author Share Posted November 12, 2009 Fraction Back, (3/4) Husker 37, you answered my questions perfect and thank you! Quote Link to comment
HUSKER 37 Posted November 12, 2009 Share Posted November 12, 2009 Fraction Back, (3/4) Husker 37, you answered my questions perfect and thank you! That's a relief..I was starting to feel like a back hoe.. Quote Link to comment
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