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Originally Posted by KC Fish
A-11 is just stupid anyway. Good for them. A-11 makes a joke out of football by using silly jersey number exceptions. That isn't football. If you can't play the game the way it was intended and you have to resort to sneaky pass-eligible exceptions, then maybe you shouldn't be playing.
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"The way it was intended" is a complete straw man. The way football was originally intended was basically rugby. Then, some coach exploited a "loophole" in the rules by telling his team to execute a forward pass.
That argument is a bunch of revisionist history.
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