Amazing Fake Out
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Stumble ThisI am not a big fan of handegg... football... whatever, but this little beauty of a play put a smile on my face.
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It's not about what particular sport, it's all about the techniques used.
Indeed. But I look at Football like Chess on grass. You have your set pieces, each with their own strengths and weaknesses. This is a classic strategy that is the very heart of Football: Show your opponent one thing, hit him with something else entirely. It's why the screen-pass is a staple in every coach's playbook (fake going down-field while the defensive linemen drool at the possibility of a sack, while blockers set up in front of the receiver of a short pass), why running out of a 4-wide formation can put a defetnse on its heels (show a defense a passing formation, then run the ball instead), and why the Tackle-Eligible play works, even when Warren Sapp is called into the offensive formation (who's going to try and throw a pass to someone who's a starting defensive lineman?)
As Sun Tzu said: "All warfare is based on deception."
This is almost as cool as the Music City Miracle, the last-ditch play that put the Titans in the Super Bowl against Kurt Warner's Rams (where McNair would come one yard shy of winning).
So you're saying it's like rugby, except that everybody is allowed to stop and think about tactics every 5 seconds. And you wear padding.
Well, injuries in handegg are so nasty precisely BECAUSE of all that 'padding'. The most dangerous moments in a game of handegg tend to be kick-offs, because you have 300 lbs terrors wearing 50 lbs of gear that shield them from some injury, thus making them a little cocky, running full speed and aiming said gear at certain vulnerable points in the padding of another player. As someone mentioned, this would never be done with the first string kicker--the chance of a single linebacker missing the obvious and being in the right place at the right time is simply too great.