America 1979

Chapter 44 Possibility of reaching the playoffs

Friday, October [-]th.

This is the last quarter of the game. Hamotun temporarily leads the opponent by one point. The game will end in 3 minutes. The ball is in the hands of the opponent. It seems that Hamotun has the possibility of losing.

At 38 yards in the own half, a new round of first attack began. Bill No. 88 first pushed down the smaller enemy right guard after the enemy center served, and then began to go up with two pocket players.

The offensive team must have seven players lined up on the offensive and defensive lines, so there must be people in the five positions of the center center, left and right guards, and left and right tackles.

These five King Kong have no legal right to receive the ball, cannot get the ball from the quarterback, and cannot catch the quarterback's pass, so they are full-time to protect the quarterback.The left and right tackles step back slightly after each play to form a semi-circular pocket that protects the quarterback, so they are also called pocket players.

As a defensive left tackle, Bill was facing the enemy's center and right tackle. These are also the two traditional tanks. Visually, both opponents weighed more than [-] pounds.

Because the defensive team does not need to line up seven people on the offensive and defensive lines, on his side, Coach Murphy actively moved closer to the professional league, replacing the previous four-three defense lines with three-four defense lines.

In other words, the defensive team of the Hamatun school team only has left and right tackles and right ends on the offensive and defensive lines, plus two cornerbacks far away from the forward line.

So Bill often has to bring down an enemy player and then kill the two surrounding players.In bad luck, the one who was put down before stood up and continued to fuck Bill.

Off the field, a reporter from an unknown TV station directed the cameraman to point the camera at Bill, who is a dude. "Quick, quick, shoot number 88, that person is getting a lot of attention."

This is the staff sent by the CBS TV station. It is mainly responsible for collecting the highlight clips of NFHS and NCAAF games in New York State, and filling them into various programs according to the needs and the degree of attention.The clips they shot have a certain probability of being selected into the two programs of "Evening Report" and "Six 10 Minutes".

These two programs are the most resistant TV programs on CBS, and the weekly "Six 10 Minutes" has become one of the top ten TV programs with the highest ratings in the United States for many years in a row from the late 70s to the early 80s, and its gold content is quite high.

Although Bill exerted astonishing strength in an instant, he still couldn't fight against two strong opponents, and his endurance was not too strong. After briefly maintaining the balance of power with the enemy's center and right tackle on the offensive and defensive lines, he was pushed back slowly. .

But that's enough. The most important thing about news is the ratings, and the ratings depend on the news that catches people's attention. Gimmicks are the first thing reporters consider.

According to the reporter outside the court, the No. 88 player, who was famous for being able to push two down players to get a ten-yard advance and the next [first attack], once again showed amazing talent. Overwhelmed a guard in a short period of time, and then tied with the opposing center and right tackle.

"Will anyone question the authenticity?" The cameraman who photographed No. 88 being pushed across the offensive and defensive line felt uneasy and asked.

The unscrupulous reporter glared at his companion, "Your video tape is true enough, and with the credit endorsement of our CBS, this piece of news is true."

He doesn't care what the second half is like, the news that can attract the audience is the real news, and the boring news is fake news.

……

In the center of the arena, although Bill couldn't handle the two strong opponents, he still kept them from getting away. This allowed him to add an interceptor on the second line, which greatly enhanced his second-line interception strength.

This is the charm of American football. One person or a few people can't decide the whole game. Only the whole team can win the game. Everyone accumulates a little advantage in their respective positions, and the whole team has the possibility of winning the battle. .

The tactics of the defensive team of the Hamatun school team are relatively advanced. The enemy only maintained two or three ten-yard advances, and then lost the ball.In the last minute of the game, the Hamatun school team, which got the ball, couldn't advance nearly 1 yards. The second touchdown was impossible, but the offensive team fought hard until the last minute, until the referee's whistle sounded.

Seven bars and six!
Hamatun school team won again.

In the locker room, the excited Captain Howard started to give a speech without even changing his jersey, "We won four games in a row, let's sweep away the haze after that game..."

Like the higher-level professional ball games and the college NCAAF league, the high school team also controls the regular season to [-] games per season. Seven games have been played, and the Hamotun school team has five wins and two losses.

In these seven games, in the first game zero bars and seven were crushed, in the second game seven bars and six small wins, in the third game seven bars and fourteen defeats, in the fourth game [-] bars and zero big wins, in the fifth game [-] bars Seven wins, the sixth round of [-] bars and [-] small wins, today's [-] bars and [-] miserable wins.

This winning percentage is already the best result of the Hamatun school team since participating in the rugby game, and the net score is even more gratifying, reaching [-] points.

"...According to the results of the teams that have entered the playoffs before, as long as we maintain ten to twelve wins, there is a high probability that we will enter the playoffs. That is to say, as long as we win in the next nine games If you get five wins, you are very likely to enter the championship, if you can win seven games out of nine, then you will definitely be able to..."

In fact, there is no need to be as strong as winning [-] games, winning [-] games and losing [-] games is very stable, and winning [-] games and tying one or two games also has a great chance to enter the playoffs with a higher net score.

Quarterback Howard, who played for a season and a half, suddenly felt that his high school career was almost complete. As long as he was invited to the tournament this season, his college application would be stable, at least most of the colleges in New York State could be admitted.

Coach Murphy rarely spoke on this occasion, "Boys, you have performed beyond expectations this season. The entire team has done a great job in tearing the front line, intercepting tackles, and offensive and defensive confrontations. Getting a big size push…”

He also conclusively praised the entire team members, and encouraged everyone to maintain the momentum and give full play to their true strength in future games.

During this process, Coach Murphy's eyes made contact with Bill many times, which made Bill, whose mental age was much older than his appearance, feel embarrassed.

After the two delivered speeches one after another, quarterback Howard knew that the coach appreciated "Mr. Sports Car", so he took the initiative to shout: "Since Bill is the hardest among us, he basically played the whole game and performed extremely well in his position. , then let’s ask him to say a few words to encourage his teammates.”

Putting the helmet on the leather stool beside him, Bill stood up, imitating Howard's speaking habits and began to praise others and himself:

"Guys, we're the best..."

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