Ian Iveson
March 23rd 09, 07:09 PM
Glad you appreciate the importance of history.
If you phoned a 50s audio designer with some circuit advice
he'd tell you to stop messing about and tell him about the
transistor.
My advice is that you ban forward passes and off-the-ball
tackles.
Ian
> wrote in message
...
> The term "Monday (or Tuesday, in the era of Monday Night
> Football)
> Morning Quarterback" is often used derisively in the
> sense that any
> idiot can see after the fact what the pros are paid to
> think likely
> before it. It also reflects, as Sailer says, on the fact
> that whereas
> soccer comes down to which team is in better condition
> physically,
> American football is essentially as much a strategy game
> as an
> athletic one and the strategy of opposing coaches and
> quarterbacks is
> to use their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses
> against
> those of opponents is what makes it a great spectator
> sport, as
> opposed to soccer which is a stinky spectator sport. Road
> racing vs.
> oval track is also a question of participant (SCCA, IMSA,
> hobby racing
> depending on one's wealth) vs spectator emphasis as well.
>
> But if you are building tube equipment in 2009, you are
> engaging in a
> form of MMQ as well. You are doing things like the biggies
> did or not
> depending on your goals and neuroses, and you have to
> think about what
> you would have done better than the players back then did.
>
> I often read the old books, usually the short ones
> oriented to the
> hobbyist, such as you often see now available for free
> down load on
> pmillett.com, and think of how I would have done something
> different
> than they did in light of what we know now. Like wanting
> to warn the
> cast of the movie filmed on a desert nuke testing site all
> of whose
> cast died of cancer prematurely (John Wayne and Susan
> Heyward come to
> mind), or John Lennon to avoid the guy with a copy of
> "Catcher in the
> Rye", you want to tell them to do or not do something that
> would make
> everyone's life better decades on. Of course, even if you
> were
> permitted one phone call to the past, as in those second
> rate Twilight
> Zone TV spinoffs, getting them to listen would be another
> thing.
If you phoned a 50s audio designer with some circuit advice
he'd tell you to stop messing about and tell him about the
transistor.
My advice is that you ban forward passes and off-the-ball
tackles.
Ian
> wrote in message
...
> The term "Monday (or Tuesday, in the era of Monday Night
> Football)
> Morning Quarterback" is often used derisively in the
> sense that any
> idiot can see after the fact what the pros are paid to
> think likely
> before it. It also reflects, as Sailer says, on the fact
> that whereas
> soccer comes down to which team is in better condition
> physically,
> American football is essentially as much a strategy game
> as an
> athletic one and the strategy of opposing coaches and
> quarterbacks is
> to use their strengths and compensate for their weaknesses
> against
> those of opponents is what makes it a great spectator
> sport, as
> opposed to soccer which is a stinky spectator sport. Road
> racing vs.
> oval track is also a question of participant (SCCA, IMSA,
> hobby racing
> depending on one's wealth) vs spectator emphasis as well.
>
> But if you are building tube equipment in 2009, you are
> engaging in a
> form of MMQ as well. You are doing things like the biggies
> did or not
> depending on your goals and neuroses, and you have to
> think about what
> you would have done better than the players back then did.
>
> I often read the old books, usually the short ones
> oriented to the
> hobbyist, such as you often see now available for free
> down load on
> pmillett.com, and think of how I would have done something
> different
> than they did in light of what we know now. Like wanting
> to warn the
> cast of the movie filmed on a desert nuke testing site all
> of whose
> cast died of cancer prematurely (John Wayne and Susan
> Heyward come to
> mind), or John Lennon to avoid the guy with a copy of
> "Catcher in the
> Rye", you want to tell them to do or not do something that
> would make
> everyone's life better decades on. Of course, even if you
> were
> permitted one phone call to the past, as in those second
> rate Twilight
> Zone TV spinoffs, getting them to listen would be another
> thing.