Oh, greater Sacramento region, what are we going to do with you? Earlier this month we had to suffer through your offensive video introductions at the Kings game and now we learn that one of your local area high school football coaches is suing over an unfair coin flip?
Terhune is suing to have the “tiebreaker” overturned, arguing it violated the open-meeting requirements detailed in the state’s Brown Act. “It’s a technicality,” said Terhune. “Let’s say it like it is. It was decided only the ADs would toss, period.”
Seriously, is this an onion article?
Let’s put the football politics aside for a moment and talk about how three teams were going to be narrowed down to two by the flip of a coin? I can hear them at the Round Table now…
Ok, you three coaches call it in the air and whomever gets it right wins…oh wait, that won’t work…ok, we’ll flip the coin and one coach will call it in the air and before it lands the other two do a thumb war and the winner of that contest can move on to the elimination round…
Totally ridiculous…and besides, everyone knows that a situation like this called for Odd or Even.
UPDATE: The judgement is in. A superior judgement no less. Still no word on how a coin toss was going to make a decision between three parties.
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Odd or Even needs a publicist like “Rock, Paper, Scissors”. That game has some awesome representation, but Odd or Even seems to have more practical applications and isn’t nearly as girly as Eeny Meeny or Inka Binka.
http://www.rpschamps.com/
posted 11/18/05 at 8:37 am #
Is it just my small town upbringing or did anyone else grow up calling rock, paper, scissors Ro Sham bo?
posted 11/18/05 at 9:14 am #
I grew up in a big city and we always called it Ro Sham Bo. Of course.
posted 11/18/05 at 9:18 am #
From now on, I’m calling the game “Farkle”!
From Wikipedia
Other names
Sometimes the elements in its name are permuted, or modified to include
Rock replaced with Stone
Paper with Cloth
Ca-Chi-Pun
Ching-Chong-Cha
Even-Neyar-uMisparayim
Farkle
Fing Fong Fooey
Gawi-Bawi-Bo
Ick-Ack-Ock
Jack en Poy
JanKenPon
Janken
Kai Bai Bo
Paper-Rock-Scissors
Mora
Morra Cinese
Rochambeau
Roshambo
Row-Sham-Bow
Schnik Schnak Schnuk
Scissors-Paper-Rock
Scissors-Paper-Stone
Piedra-Papel-Tijeras (In spanish)
posted 11/18/05 at 9:26 am #
We used to play the game with real rocks, paper and scissors.
But that’s just how we roll.
posted 11/18/05 at 9:35 am #
This was obviously a coin toss fixed by those white racists in Lodi…thus eliminating pro-sport oppotunities for the working stiffs in Stockton!
posted 11/21/05 at 11:35 am #
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