Google’s CEO Is A Nerd Who Doesn’t Understand How Football Works
With less than 45 days until the college football season gets underway, it’s time we start preparing for God’s season. Football is the thing that we fraternity men (and all men in general) look forward to during the long summer days when all we have is baseball season (which I love, don’t get me wrong). The tailgates, the rivalries, the incoming pledges, and the girls in sundresses and boots will take me from six to midnight faster than watching Chris Davis take back that missed field goal.
Not all men are looking forward to the upcoming football season, though. These are the guys who are too busy playing World Of Warcraft–AKA the nerds. The biggest nerd on the planet, Google CEO Larry Page, does not plan on watching football this fall because he thinks the sport is “too complicated.”
@amir correct! they had to explain how the NFL worked to him last fall.
— Peter Kafka (@pkafka) July 16, 2014
@davegirouard @pkafka The TV rights are even more complicated than the game.
— Amir Efrati (@amir) July 16, 2014
@davegirouard @pkafka The TV rights are even more complicated than the game.
— Amir Efrati (@amir) July 16, 2014
Maybe it’s my experience of playing football for seven years in Texas or maybe it’s my Y chromosome, but I don’t find the game complicated at all. It’s actually relatively easy to understand. In fact, you can teach a drunk sorority girl the basics--the downside is that you’ll hear them screaming for pass interference for the rest of the game. Four downs to get 10 yards, and once the ball breaks the plane of the goal line, you get six points.
I don’t expect them to understand what “i right 32 waggle” means or who’s responsible for the quarterback on a triple option (usually the defensive end on the side where the play happens) but they should know what a play-action fake is or that someone is supposed to hit the quarterback on an option.
If only there was a search engine that Larry could use to learn a little about the sport. Maybe someone should create that.
[via Business Insider]
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Bro you played football? Cool story.
10 years ago at 12:57 pmFor seven years too! I bet his bum knee blew his chance at going pro.
10 years ago at 2:36 pmPretty sad for the writer he didn’t get a quarter of many likes as your comment
10 years ago at 8:57 pmLooks like he takes GDI to final boss level.
10 years ago at 1:00 pmDefinitely a GDI
10 years ago at 1:00 pmPlease leave and never return
10 years ago at 2:51 pmthat man has $32 billion+ more dollars than me….. he could probably buy every team in the nfl, make the stadiums his personal ping pong arenas….. nothing further, just wanted to point that out
10 years ago at 1:02 pmIn the mean time, Boulevard writes for TFM while Larry is raking in billions per year.
10 years ago at 2:35 pmI’m going to create a search engine and name it Bing.
10 years ago at 1:14 pmLet me get this straight, you’re going to knock a guy who took a startup I from his parents garage to a multi billion dollar company because his area of expertise is computers and not football? Bro…
10 years ago at 1:18 pmHey, if he’s not out there bragging about his ignorance of the game because he thinks it makes him intellectually superior to not have time for such things, then I really don’t fault him. And last time I checked, he’s not out there doing that, he’s out there making billions upon billions of dollars.
10 years ago at 1:29 pmI would gladly give up all my meaningless football knowledge for 0.01 percent of this guys net worth.
10 years ago at 2:10 pmGreat name
10 years ago at 8:56 pmYMBNH
10 years ago at 11:00 pmYou’re fucking terrible.
10 years ago at 3:11 pm$32bn TFTC
10 years ago at 4:18 pm