We don't practice fucked
The great and grumpy Tom Moore just retired, folks, at the whippersnapping age of 87. He was the offensive coordinator for Peyton Manning’s pearlescent white Indianapolis Colts (the same Colts who just lost their drug-addled-but-big-hearted owner, Jim Irsay, known for rolling around the city with I shit you not literal trash bags full of Percocet, perhaps the physical manifestation of grime and sweat-beaded jaw-clenched stints in primo rehab centers and all that is not pearlescent), and although in the hallowed annals of the NFL he may be a footnote1 he gave us a great quote.
When asked why Manning’s backup wasn’t taking any snaps in practice, he famously replied:
If 18 goes down, we’re fucked. And we don’t practice fucked.
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Albeit a particularly long one; the guy did make it into Ron Jaworski’s The Games That Changed the Game with an inimitable quote, a one-of-a-kinder, which spawned this questionable analogy. ↩
Well, maybe an extended and half baked analogy to an economist and a science fiction author. ↩
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