Football terminology poll: "hook and lateral" or "hook and ladder"
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The question was whether "hook and ladder" was a common nickname for the "hook and lateral", or if it was an egregious error WOB that only an idiot would use.
Because I am a gentleman, I have amended the poll to present you with an option to vote both
And as a scholar, I obliged.
One might call it a meme - a meme generated to make note of your disproportionate emotional response to the issue of whether something is a WOB - which in turn, could be the result of having anger issues or alcohol on board on a gameday morning.
One correction: ladder is the name for the route the guy is running who gets the ball lateraled to him.
It can be. Since we're citing wikipedia as authority: Some proponents of the term "hook and lateral" claim that the "hook" refers to the pattern run by the receiver who catches the pass from the quarterback. The "lateral" refers to the pitching of the ball by the receiver to his teammate. This is not synonymous with a "ladder", which is a specific route (also called a "chair") in which a receiver cuts out before turning up the field along the sideline. If the "hook" receiver laterals the ball to a teammate running a ladder route, the play could accurately be described as a "hook and ladder".[citation needed] This would not be true of many hook and lateral plays; in the case of the play run by the Boise State Broncos in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, the player who received the lateral from the "hook" receiver was running a slant route across the center of the field rather than a ladder route."
Why not hook and latter?
It's the "latter" guy that ends up with the ball. Like a Latter Day Saint Thing...
It's the "latter" guy that ends up with the ball. Like a Latter Day Saint Thing...
When you guys figure it out, please send everything to mike.norvell@fsu.edu.
Preferably by 3:30 Eastern.
Preferably by 3:30 Eastern.
Well, this poll is democracy at work. 80+% of the people voting don’t have a clue.*
*before anyone is triggered that was a joke aimed at my voting minority status and not a personal attack on the misinformed 80+%.
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