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We finally know what Peyton Manning’s ‘Omaha’ means
NY Post ^ | January 24, 2016 | Mark W. Sanchez

Posted on 01/24/2016 12:06:29 PM PST by BlueStateRightist

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To: BlueStateRightist

I think Peyton and Eli used it when they were kids playing backyard football.


21 posted on 01/24/2016 12:27:00 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: BlueStateRightist

I guess I was typing instead of continuing reading.


22 posted on 01/24/2016 12:28:49 PM PST by FamiliarFace
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To: BlueStateRightist
Whatever happened to calling a good play and executing it well?

All this second, third, and fourth guessing because a defensive back shifted a bit to the left or took a step or two back is more annoying than entertaining.

Oh, and the hard count to draw an offsides.

Wow! What a way to distinguish so-so clubs from champions.

Not.

23 posted on 01/24/2016 12:30:58 PM PST by who_would_fardels_bear
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Are they still running horses at AkSarBen? Or is it just for remote and off-track these days?


24 posted on 01/24/2016 12:31:21 PM PST by IronJack
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To: discostu

Chris Collinsworth explained that Omaha means that the ball must be hiked at the next utterance from the quarterback - - usually when they’re running out of time.

Sometimes he uses it to lure the players offsides.


25 posted on 01/24/2016 12:33:13 PM PST by Loud Mime (Honor the Commandments because they're not suggestions; stop gambling on forgiveness.)
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To: IronJack

The horse racing ended in 1995.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ak-Sar-Ben_%28arena%29


26 posted on 01/24/2016 12:33:50 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Yeah, my Organization uses the same word trick.

We call ourselves the Ghosts of RADAR, oh wait...


27 posted on 01/24/2016 12:34:59 PM PST by Kickass Conservative (Get the CDS and TDS Vaccines before it's too late.)
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To: Kickass Conservative

you’d have to turn it inside out like DARAD


28 posted on 01/24/2016 12:36:09 PM PST by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Hmmm. My wife yells “omaha” at the end of a long drive. Probably the result of a lot of Manning.


29 posted on 01/24/2016 12:38:07 PM PST by disndat
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To: Loud Mime

And Chris was fibbing too, most of the time he yells it more than once before the snap, and not usually when they’re running out of time.

It’s a “ready” that’s all it is. Not terribly exciting, people trying to over complicate it are being silly.


30 posted on 01/24/2016 12:40:44 PM PST by discostu (This is a different kind of flying... all together.)
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To: BlueStateRightist

He has done this for years but last year there was a game near the end of the season where it seemed you could hear every single word so clearly. It was this game that brought such notoriety to this Midwestern cowtown.


31 posted on 01/24/2016 12:41:59 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: BlueStateRightist

He’s an incredible future first-ballet HOF QB of course, but his constant directions at the line of scrimmage each play, shouting out who’s supposed to do what, pointing the hot defenders out etc is so friggin’ ridiculous—and I will bet extremely annoying for the O-Line and receivers.

These guys are pros, they don’t need the QB hollering what to look out for every GD play. They have their own intricate calls to think about each play.

I think his habit cost them a safety in the first play of the last Super Bowl he was in, as the center was confused listening to him barking and snapped it early (crowd noise etc too). That set the pace of the rest of the game.

Just shut up already Peyton, let your guys do their job and expect them to do it—like Unitas and Bradshaw and Staubach and Namath and even Brady and Rodgers (who keep their directions to a minimum, mainly for audibles.)

Oh well, my alma mater kicked Peyton’s ass 42-17 in the Orange Bowl after the 1997 season for a share of the National Championship (split with Michigan), so it doesn’t really bother me that much (does).


32 posted on 01/24/2016 12:43:53 PM PST by Husker8877
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To: BlueStateRightist

OhMaHa Deflatriots missed the extra point!


33 posted on 01/24/2016 12:50:13 PM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Husker8877
"He's an incredible future first-ballet HOF QB of course..."


34 posted on 01/24/2016 12:50:13 PM PST by BlueLancer (Once is happenstance. Twice is circumstance. Three times is enemy action.)
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To: IronJack

The race track was torn down several years ago. There is a business park and shopping/entertainment area there now. The also just opened a new arena there where UNO hockey and and basketball play. El Presidente’ spoke there the day after the SOTU address. Lots of nice shops and restaurants in that area now.


35 posted on 01/24/2016 12:52:35 PM PST by Big Red Clay (Greetings from the Big Red State)
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To: BlueLancer

OOPS, funny! Of course I mean first ballot (he likely will not be named to any dancing hall of fame anywhere anytime!)


36 posted on 01/24/2016 12:53:17 PM PST by Husker8877
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To: HiTech RedNeck
Actually, I think I knew that. The track had a reputation for being one of the crookedest running, which is saying something in the horse-racing industry.

Glad to see they made something useful out of it.

37 posted on 01/24/2016 1:17:50 PM PST by IronJack
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To: aquila48
Omaha spelled inside-out is

Hamao

38 posted on 01/24/2016 1:24:24 PM PST by FroggyTheGremlim (Hunga Tonga-Hunga.)
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To: Husker8877

Please. Did you just bring up Namath? Look at my tag line. Roll Tide til I die but Namath was the Ric Flair of football. He didn’t just run the O-line he ran the whole Jets organization.

My son also played on the O-line and said any good quarterback is going to do exactly what Manning does and that Brady does it too.


39 posted on 01/24/2016 1:42:12 PM PST by Lil Flower (American by birth. Southern by the Grace of God. ROLL TIDE!!)
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To: BlueStateRightist

Now what does Rogers “319” mean.... He uses it almost every down.


40 posted on 01/24/2016 1:44:57 PM PST by vpintheak (Freedom is not equality; and equality is not freedom!)
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