What? Are you saying that you don’t know anything about football? Well, I have the perfect book for you!! Talk Football by Alice Nicholas is what you need to understand and enjoy football season!! I mean going to the ballgame or watching the game with friends can be so much more than just cheering when your team scores a touchdown.
Think about how impressed everyone will be be if you all of a sudden yell out “ILLEGAL MOTION“!
(An Illegal Motion is when a player in the offensive backfield moves toward the line of scrimmage before the ball is snapped, resulting in a 5-yard penalty and the down must be repeated.)
Or if you started a conversation about how the quarterback needs better protection from the “BLITZ” (when the defensive linemen and defensive backs “rush the quarterback” at one time to “sack the quarterback” or force him to make a bad throw).
Did I mention that the book is illustrated by wonderful paintings by Janie Davis so never again will you confuse a hand signal for ‘loss of down’ with ‘illegal receiver downfield’.
Ladies…come on let’s talk some football!!! It’s no longer cool to walk in the party and ask…’Now what color are we?”
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