Jhoff

I always thought overtime should be played like at the end of the first and third quarter. Team with the ball at the end of the 4th quarter continues from the same yard line and down situation. The overtime clock set at plus or minus 7:30 minutes with zero or one timeout. It could be sudden death or the full 7:30 minutes played. No one scores in that time frame then the results is a tie.

My only complaint about you is that you haven't bought Twitter yet. We all thought that, by now, you would be running that ship with your OBD rules. What a glorious world it will be when you finally take control. Don't worry all your readers will pitch in to recover your invest at some point in time as far as you know. Seriously though this ship is a great ship to be on with such a good captain.

I think think in the long run it will be called 'the civil war'

From what I understand it was some players that were upset with the name. My guess is that they were from out of state and everytime the term came up in the past it had to do with the Civil War not some football game. To most Oregonian's everytime the term comes up it's about a football game not a terrible and still lingering time in our past. So to get a firm grip on all this we need to have an OBD type discussion with the offending parties and then, as a whole, decide if the name change is warranted. What type of discussion, and with whom, took place a couple of years ago before the powers at be decided what was what.

The 'Oregonian's Civil War'

How about the 'civilless war'. But be careful with the pronunciation. You don't want to call it the 'syphilis war'.

I often wondered about electing to run the kickoff back instead of taking it on the 25. Maybe coaches think that there's not much difference from starting from around the 20 (which seems where most of the run backs end up) as opposed to the 25. So it might be worth electing to run it back with the possibility of a big return.

It was also the kicker that recovered the onside kick against Stanford

The Weather Channel now says it's not likely to rain during the game. I think a heavy rain would have benefited the Ducks more. But who knows. Should be a whale of a game!

Don't mean to be picky but wasn't But Grant's quote "..... and not necessarily in that order"?

I think we would have a better idea about our Ducks if we eliminate the stats from both the Georgia and Eastern Washington games. But for comparison purposes we would have to do that with the other teams as well.

When someone says to me 'you sure look good for your age'. They think their giving me a compliment. But all I hear is 'your old'. If a moderater thinks something is in the gray area then it could very easily be construed to be offensive to the person that the statement is being referred to. So I say if the moderator initially thinks it's in a gray area then go ahead and nuke it with any of the polite responses mentioned earlier. Don't dwell on it just do it and move on. Oh and by the way I am damn good looking.

Agree with 30DUCK. You also could make the overtime quarters between 5 and 10 minutes if your worried about injuries.

Footballs first body protection was the leather helmet then came foam type shoulder, hip and knee pads. Then the hard shell helmet was introduced. A few years after the other pads followed suit. All those hard surfaces aren't that great for the brain. I don't see why the shoulder, hip and knee pads can't go back to a foam type of pad. You would think that a helmet could be designed along with that same principle in mind. Motor vehicles need that hard surface type protection. But not the brain. It just seems that the new designs that start with that hard shell outer surface just makes it more complicated. I'm sure my thoughts aren't original but what , pray tell, am I missing ?

If you don't want the overtime to be to lengthy they could have 6 or more downs to make a first down. Some strategy to have the ball at end of end regulation.