Samuel's school had their first football game of the season last night. He is not really a football person, but as a good teacher he went to support the team. I think he must have been really bored, because we exchanged several texts throughout the night--he at the game and me at Kent's house in Arlington.
Samuel: 14 to 0...we're doing well
Anna: Glad to hear it!
Samuel: OK, they are running around a lot. But they stop when the whistle blows. I have that much figured out.
Samuel: Now a dude ran with the ball and fell down and the refs talked and pointed and now our team is very happy...something good happened?
Samuel: Now they are measuring the ground. Shouldn't they have done that before the game?
Anna: Erica says that means the first down was so close that they can't call it without measuring carefully.
Anna: I don't know what a first down is.
Samuel: It's a way to rate the quality of down feathers. "First down" is the highest quality and in ancient times could only be sold to the members of the king's household.
Anna: Duh. I should have figured that out.
Samuel: First down is now used in the padding of football helmets. If the ref suspects that the down is of lower quality he will measure the dent left in the ground by the football players. There is no penalty for a second or third rate down, but the team looses face and must crawl crab style off the field at the end of the game.
Anna: Who supplies the down?
Samuel: Geese, of course!
Anna: But for the first down it must be supplied by geeseof the royal goose family.
Samuel: *grin*
Later, the next morning, in Gmail chat...
Samuel: We won 20-0, but with a lot of injuries.
Anna: ouch. I'm going to post the yexts on my blog.
texts, not yexts.
What are yexts?
Samuel: the lowest grade of down
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