Doove, why don't you just try thinking about what you posted and reconciling it with what you said earlier?
Originally Posted by CaptainMidnight
I got a better idea. How about you accept the context of my comment which was a rebuttal to the comment that "99 yds is not a touchdown". "20 yards" could be a touchdown. "40 yards" could be a touchdown. So it's pretty stupid to suggest that "99 yds is not a touchdown", don'tcha think? There are a 98+ near identical football metaphors COG could have used to make his point. He chose to use the absolute dumbest and least true one of the bunch.
That is, that moving the ball 99 yards is a touchdown. As is quite obvious, you can move the ball 99 yards and still fail to score a touchdown.
You can "move the ball" 700 yards on a single drive and fail to score a touchdown. But if you get credit for a 99 yard drive, you've scored a touchdown. Period. End of argument. You're wrong.
Whether the football stat compilers credit a team with a 99 yard drive is clearly immaterial. That's just the way it breaks.
Perhaps, if you wanna talk in the most literal sense possible. But in the context of COG's metaphor, the "99 yard drive" is his whole point.
That's unless, of course, you wanna suggest that his
actual point was to say "99 yds is not a touchdown, because you can actually start on the 1/2 yard line, drive 99 yds, and still fall short, even though that means you'll only get credit for 98 yards. But ignore that last part, if you please".
Remember this thread?
http://www.eccie.net/showthread.php?t=455840
Several of your posts demonstrated quite conclusively that your brain is a logic-free zone!
Just look at post #20, where I suggested that it was just a hunch, but I would guess that you landed a little short of scoring an 800 on the quant section of the GRE.
From this you segue to a post from May, on a totally unrelated topic, where you think you can pat yourself on the back?
Your narcissism is showing again CM.
Not to mention your hypocrisy.