Roy Williams and the non-Euclids, ramblings of an aging fan
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With very little pomp and absolutely no circumstance, the Squibster will bring you up to date on the Lions!
Calvin Johnson inks a 7 year contract with the Detroit Lions.
Johnson was regarded by some as the best player in the draft after catching 78 passes for 1,202 yards and 15 touchdowns during his All-America junior season at Georgia Tech. He won the Biletnikoff Award, given to the nation’s top college receiver. source
Bully for Calvin, your newest Lions multi-millionaire wide receiver. You can hardly keep track of all the people that Owner Bill Ford is paying as a wide receiver. Half of them not even on the team.
Still it will be tantalizing to see Calvin play opposite Roy “the Mouth that Roared” Williams in the Mike Martz offense.
Speaking of Roy, he has spawned a special kind of fan called the non-Euclid.
NFL Football Euclid factoid Now we won’t go too far here, because 7 + 3 = 10 is usually all you have to know in football, plus maybe a slant pass is run on a slant. Most of the math you know is a part of Euclidean math. Especially all that geometry that you don’t really know. A guy named Euclid, that happened to live in Greece, invented it.
But Roy does not follow the path that most players follow. Remember how he said the Lions would score 40 points last year against the Bears and then they hardly scored at all? This year he has just upped the ante.
People didn’t understand that,” Williams said Thursday. “In Week 17, we went to Dallas and scored 39 points when everybody was clicking. So that’s the kind of offense we’re in. We’re a little bit more comfortable with it (now). So hopefully this year we can put up 40 points a game.” source
This has sprouted the non-Euclids based on non-Euclidean Geometry.
NFL Football non-Euclidean Geometry factoid No, no, no, it was not invented by some guy named non-Euclid or some guy standing next to Euclid wearing a T-shirt saying Euclid is an idiot. Actually, it is more bizarre than that. In non-Euclidean Geometry parallel lines can and will meet. This would be like railroad tracks that eventually had the rail coming together. Not too easy for the train, heh?
So as Roy brags about scoring touchdowns and the team averaging 40 points the fans eat it up and then paradoxically the train hits the rails coming together and Roy doesn’t score any touchdowns and the team does not score 40 points. Those that believe in Roy’s mouth become the non-Euclids.
Anyway, ignore the non-Euclids and put Roy on your Fantasy Team!
NFL Football Fan Question Just how good did you do in geometry?
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