Incidentally, even Ryan has never said publicly what the essence of the innovation was, so far as I know.

An Old Master keeps the secret.

It might have been a Ray Lewis quote?

It was that team, with its defensive platoon, that was the first important step in the development of a new understanding of defense, and defensive theory–known to very few and really grasped by even fewer–that culminated in Ryan.

Plus haut les jambes, mes manchots, plus haut les jambes!

American football has produced one defensive genius, Buddy Ryan, and a dwarf like Corkey, by the fact of being a dwarf, has very likely no idea, beyond what the media and the press tell him, either what the system was or why it was such an innovation.

The hilarious thing is that these dyed-in-the-wool dumbasses also don’t know much about their own chosen icons.

Ever hear of a 4-4 in the late ’50’s? It was a predecessor in its dynamics to what Buddy Ryan came up. Ryan added a key and brilliant next step.

Joe Namath and the Jets? Oh, that was Ryan’s first Superbowl Ring, won by a defense no one of these dumbass fans pay much attention to.

Ever note the similarity of the flamboyance between Namath and McMann?

That was also part of Ryan’s pattern.

Ditka could not have won a bowling trophy in the NFL without Ryan, though I give him some credit for inventing a few offensive plays hinging on understanding the psychology of the tight end.

And no, I never read a word about it.

“Nietzsche turned it on its head–a dwarf on the shoulders of a giant reduces everything he sees to his own small and petty dimensions.”

NOW THATS PRACTICAL ADVICE YOU CAN TAKE TO THE BANK. START HEEDING IT ! LOL

PS: Is that Ray Nietzsche from the 1960’s Green Bay Packers you are quoting ?

I make my living on line so while I’m at it I try to get the word out with a little blogging. However, your right that there is no point in trying to debate with some of the people. It’s of no use and I could be spending my time more efficently (and having more fun too).

Peace!

Why bother ? Like Eugene is some kind of expert, community leader or something. Like I said before, some guys in here need to get outside, get some fresh air and interaction with real live people. Go smell the flowers, Brad, and stop arguing with idiots who love to claim how smart they are. Based upon your posts, you sound like someone who has performed community service or some type of civil service trying to help others.

Who cares how many times this guy posts as he is only talking to himself anyway.

You are better than that. He needs to get a real life and he is not your problem.

Yet again, a most perceptive remark, Richard. Yes, I think you are right, at core there would seem to be a genuine moral vacuity among our people, their pretensions to a presumed morality on either left and right notwithstanding. You point to a total lack of “noble thought” in our land and you are right to do so. I’ll submit to you that the lynchpin of this derth of nobility has its basis in the utilitarian notion of the human person that holds sway today and that is butressed by a certain, almost gnostic, dualism which envisions the person as distinct from his/her biological reality. If, for example, one views one’s self as having “rights” over ones body, one objectifies – and trivializes – one’s biology. The body, and the world, are unconsciously seen as inferior to the “self”, so-called” and, therefor, perhaps not undeserving of abusive or callous treatment. Something of this mentality is at work in a culture that tolerates abortion, infanticide, pre-emptive war, and the like. The denegration of the dignity of the human person to “terrorist”, “nigger”, “fetus” and so on is much more easily tolerated that way. The selective claims to a moral basis which are made for the various projects of ideology today are disclosed as fraudulant as a consequence. The solution, therefore, lies in the re-personalization of culture and that cannot be achieved by some sleight of hand. If one correctly understands who it is that one might potentially abuse, and the absolute nature of the basis of a claim all have to human dignity, a way out is at least possible. Absent that, the descent into the abyss will be inexorable.