The Triple Threat Quarterback
The makers of the game of electric football create each apparatus to be used as a part of the game. While some may think the apparatus that came with the game does not work, I would be quick to debate that.
I remember one of the coaches in the DFW League once speaking about how it was "unfair for Reginald or Don Hudson to be able to pass and we can't". Oscar Woodard spoke up and said, "We just need to up our skill level".
That was the best response I have ever heard to the that question. I would first preface this by saying what I play is miniature football. In playing miniature football, I want to simulate real football. I want all the bells and whistles of real football. I know this can not be real because my players are inanimate objects. With that being the case, many things that occur on a real football field, I want to try to replicate it on my miniature level. I want the excitement of tossing a pass in traffic with defenders engaged with the receiver. I want to be able to throw a slant pass over a lineman who has his hands up. I want to be able to loft a bomb 40 yards up field to a receiver streaking in for a score. I want the thrill of isolating my tightend over the middle and physically making that tough pass with the aid of the TTQB.
Because Tudor knew this was just a game and there was no way to get into the skin of a miniature player, the next best thing was the "out-of-body" or "in-body" experience of feeling the pressures of making that same tough throw from the playing level that real QBs must make the throw from. That's where the human experience comes in to play.
The great thing about creating that level of play is when others that you bring into your style of play understand "this is the bar". "We will not try to lessen that bar, but instead up that bar". That's one of the great things about playing in a league that you have to make passes using that TTQB! No one makes excuses that they can't uses it. More importantly, most people in the league are willing to put their foolish pride away and ask others in the league how to pass and that information is then offered.
But for most coaches in the DFW, they practice their passing in their office at work, at restaurants, while out driving their trucks, or while their wives are sleep. Training camp for passing never end because most know they want that one shining moment when all the lights are on in a stadium before all their peers and having to know, they've got one chance to be a champion. It does not get any better than that!
The topic of kicking is another one quite similar that the makers of the game showed would be a great apparatus to the excitement of the game. Something for another time...
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