Dear West Point,

**Strike For The South** · 12-12-2009, 21:12

All you have to do is keep this game within 16.

KTHXBYE

**GeneralHankerchief** · 12-12-2009, 21:17

Navy FTW

I went to an Army-Navy game once, back in 2003. Very entertaining time, but that was the single coldest event I have ever been at in my entire life, including being outside for about 12 hours starting at 4 AM for the inauguration earlier this year.

**Centurion1** · 12-13-2009, 03:54

better game than usual though.

**Major Robert Dump** · 12-13-2009, 05:19

Sorry, I don't like baseball.

**KukriKhan** · 12-13-2009, 18:36

Navy wins: 54
Army wins: 49
7 ties

over 80 years

That's the kind of parity the NFL can only dream about.

**GeneralHankerchief** · 12-13-2009, 18:55

Originally Posted by KukriKhan

Navy wins: 54
Army wins: 49
7 ties

over 80 years

That's the kind of parity the NFL can only dream about.

Take out Navy's current win streak and it becomes even closer.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 12-13-2009, 18:56

Uh...Navy fifteen over 12 in the third inning, 88.0 overs?

**Centurion1** · 12-13-2009, 23:20

ah you silly frenchmen this is about football.

**Louis VI the Fat** · 12-15-2009, 21:06

Originally Posted by Centurion1

ah you silly frenchmen this is about football.

That is the only post in this thread that I even remotely understood.

SPEAK ENGLISH DAMMIT WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE

**Mithrandir** · 12-15-2009, 22:49

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

That is the only post in this thread that I even remotely understood.

SPEAK ENGLISH DAMMIT WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE

Not French, but no clue where this thread is going, or went... or is... or wants to be... or dreams of moving... or... yea, no clue basicly.

**KukriKhan** · 12-16-2009, 04:39

Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat

That is the only post in this thread that I even remotely understood.

SPEAK ENGLISH DAMMIT WHERE DO YOU PEOPLE THINK YOU ARE

Heh. See, there's this game, a war simulation; that is: war as imagined circa 1750, but played not by thousand-man armies, but by 2 squads, symbolically. Those squads struggle laterally against each other to move back-and-forth across a defined area, until the entire area is conquered by 1 squad.

Then they start over and over, until, after an hour, whichever squad has "conquered" the entire area the most times wins.

That covers early football, moving from Nepoleanic tactics up to trench warfare, and the dilemmas that posed. About that time, coincidentally with the dawn of aerial warfare, some brilliant guy invented "The Forward Pass", to simulate the ability to move an army (a squad) by means of an artillery attack or (new!) aerial bombing, in the enemy's rear.

To signify a successful bombing, a member of the "friendly" team must navigate through enemy territory and catch the symbolic bomb (ball), indicating the presumed ability of friendly to project its force deeper forward, into enemy's territory.

There stands US football (why it is called "foot" ball is lost in antiquity) today: a war simulation stuck in 1917.

Meanwhile, land forces, water forces, and air forces created academies to teach perfectly normal, though often economically and/or politically priviledged teenagers, how that queer invention called "war" should be conducted.

Those academies got certified as uni's, and the students learned the football game/simulation. Almost naturally, the Land-ees, the Water-ees and Air-ees (to a lesser extent; they're newish), thought their ideas of war were supreme.

So Land and Water fight (err, simulate) yearly, with about equal results over 80 years.

This year, Water wins.

That was longer than I expected, sorry.