Tag Archives: football

All Bets Are Off

Posted on January 24, 2016 by Barb Knowles

Probably the sentence I hate to say the most is “You were right.”  There.  I said it. The other day, Berthold Gambrel of A Ruined Chapel by Moonlight, wrote a post with his predictions for the conference championships being played today … Continue reading →

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American Football, the Common Core and the Canadians.

Posted on August 21, 2014 by Barb Knowles

Why do we call our football “football” when we hardly ever use our feet? I’ve never understood that. It should be called throwball, runball, touchdownball or something like that. So when a student asks me why we call American Football … Continue reading →

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