GoldWinger

"My opinion: In low humidity climes, cotton fills the bill." I grew up and currently live in an area where 99% humidity with a temp of 99 isn't uncommon. The only advantage that I've found with plastic shirts are that they dry quickly so you don't get chilled when the temp drops. The key to staying cool with cotton is that the t-shirt has to fit snugly. I find it interesting that all the lovers of the plastic shirts and smartwool shirts will wear them like a second skin but cotton, nooooo, it's as baggy as a gangster's pants. Cotton is renewable, natural and doesn't use oil.

"ACTUALLY, the odds of you throwing the winning TD are greater, and we know how long those are." Since you're trying to drag probablity and statistics (not math) into the discussion, you have no data to support that contention.

Where's the bit about a player being off the field? Sorry, I'm not reading all 260+ pages of the NCAA rule book. However, I will stand corrected on the spending a time out to stay in the game. I'm still don't buy calling a time out as evidence of leadership skills any more than leadership is demonstrated when a basketball player calls a time out in mid-air while flying out of bounds. Pressence of mind, yes. Leadership, no. Inspiring, perhaps but still not leadership.

BP, quite honestly, I don't care what you think about much of anything.

Hmmmm. . . didn't know that you played NFL football. Show me a link for NFHS football rules. "And you probably wouldn't have been throwing up on the sideline if you were in," Hmmmm . . . isn't that what I said?

"When the player is on the field that is true. But if someone is throwing up off the field, or has a cramp off the field, the game doesn't stop." Hmmmm . . . I don't officiate football but I doubt if you're reading that right. Maybe a certified football official would care to chime in. "Not to be rude or anythimg, but If I was on that team, I am very glad you were not the QB in that siutation." Hmmmmm . . . that is pretty rude but I wouldn't have been puking on the sidelines.

"Actually, I believe I said I wore a uniform 'suit' to impress people (aka arbitrary judges)." Nah, what you said was . . . "Now, uniforms the same way. I would only wear it to impress someone that would be impressed." "I could have worn any color jersey ... I" Once again, nah. You wore a jersey and helmet of a color and decoration similar to that of your teammates because the rules say that you must. That's the way it works in organized sports, you wear a uniform because you must. "in which the players are covering ground at up to 3000 inches a second" Wow! Dem be fast players. 3,000 inches per second, that works out to . . . 250 feet per second. That would give you a 40 yard dash time of less than one second. "And you set this up for the with the letter jacket. It does impress someone. The Girls. Ultimate win?" Hmmmm . . . it didn't work too well for you, did it? Instead of being out with a girl, you're spending your evening on line with a bunch of middle aged men. Now, that's what I call dorky. (This message has been edited by Goldwinger)

"While he was throwing up, he still had the mind presence to hold up the T so the team didn't take a delay of game penalty." If high school football rules are like HS baseball or HS basketball rules, the clock stops for a sick or injured player and there is no penalty. If that's the case, your quick thinking leader wasted a time out. (This message has been edited by Goldwinger)

"The uniform makes me better at my sport." Wait a sec. . . you said that you'd only wear a uniform to impress people. Now you're saying that wearing the uniform to make you better at your sport. Which is it? If it is only to make you better at your sport, you could have worn any color jersey that fit the "sticky" bill. However, I'm willing to bet that you wore a jersey and pants and helmet that were remarkably similar to your teammates. Why? You mentioned your letterman's jacket. That too is a uniform so you must only be wearing that because it somehow makes you better at something or because it impresses someone important. Which is it?

Like most synthetics, the "wicking Ts" hold onto odors. If you get stinky in the shirt, the shirt will stay stinky. Oh, it will smell fine after laundering but after you wear it for a bit, no one will want to stand next to you. Technology, ain't it grand?

"that is the purvey of the Bench." That's what they supply? Maybe you mean "perview"?

"The ACLU just can't decide to sue! Some one has to come to them and request them to take a case. Right????" I believe that they look for people with "standing" and then try to make their "constitutional points."

"Well, GW, start a troop!!" AHG creeps you out? No wonder. You're encouraging middle aged men to start troops. I've already been investigated eight ways from Sunday for security clearnaces and professional and personal licenses but I'm sure I'd still make mothers across the country nervous.

"So Goldwinger from your last post if that life scout quit after making ASPL, you say for community service, but what does that say about the program relating to the boys needs, its not about the uniform its more about the adult control in that troop." I'm not following you. He didn't quit because he was expected to do community service, he quit because he was expected to be seen in public as a member of BSA doing the troop projects around the town. What adult control? The SM tells a member of the troop leadership that he needs to step up and do his job. Gee, elsewhen on this forum, folks are whining that the SM needs to tell a "leader" when he isn't doing his job.

"BSA but they were too jingoistic, "hearth and home," and Christian-right for me." Nothing wrong with any of those three from where I sit.