[Hulk01]

In my final two years at Magnolia (later Ujimbo) we had hall hockey, along with outstanding color commentary.  (One of the blessings of attending Stanford were the genuine wits, perhaps inspired by Hal Mickelsen. 

It was during these games that we realized a key to winning football.  Football commentators in the 70's were obsessed with "momentum"; you really could not keep an announcing gig without mentioning momentum at least three times during a game.  It naturally occurred to us that it was an odd concept, because momentum was so easily lost, then sometimes regained--or not. 

But we decided we'd buy the concept.  From this, we decided that the key to winning a football game was to make the other guys less tenacious.  This led to the concept of "detanicifying" your opponent, and in in turn to understanding the vital role in winning football of "detenacionization." 

All of us were sober that night, by the way.  But there may not have been a more sober college dorm anywhere, outside of Provo, Utah, than Lagunita in the early 70's.  A wild night was when you ordered a second pizza. 

[Hulk01]

In my final two years at Magnolia (later Ujimbo) we had hall hockey, along with outstanding color commentary.  (One of the blessings of attending Stanford were the genuine wits, perhaps inspired by Hal Mickelsen. 

It was during these games that we realized a key to winning football.  Football commentators in the 70's were obsessed with "momentum"; you really could not keep an announcing gig without mentioning momentum at least three times during a game.  It naturally occurred to us that it was an odd concept, because momentum was so easily lost, then sometimes regained--or not. 

But we decided we'd buy the concept.  From this, we decided that the key to winning a football game was to make the other guys less tenacious.  This led to the concept of "detanicifying" your opponent, and in in turn to understanding the vital role in winning football of "detenacionization." 

All of us were sober that night, by the way.  But there may not have been a more sober college dorm anywhere, outside of Provo, Utah, than Lagunita in the early 70's.  A wild night was when you ordered a second pizza.