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Our newest episode of Weird Rules, on the 2003 Vikings draft disaster What is “sport” without rules? Just a buncha confused-looking nincompoops in an empty void with a bunch of mismatched equipment, that’s what! The rules of a game are its bones, giving it its definition, shape and structure. But over time, as athletes continue to push against the limits of human ability, sports must evolve to keep up. Rulebooks expand, and they get more complicated and complex; the most recent version of the NFL rulebook PDF is 94 pages, for cryin’ out loud, and there is Eventually, as in any such complex system, loopholes are bound to be discovered and exploited; strange circumstances and odd mix-em-ups are inevitable. Rules try to create an ideal and standarized environment so that players can meet on a neutral battleground to display their skills. The real world, however, doesn’t work that way. We are imperfect beings who create imperfect systems. “Life,” as the grea ....
Governor in eight years. what s interesting about that is that even though peter shumlin the democrat won, he did not get 50% of the vote. under vermont s state rules, that means technically the legislature picks who wins the race. that s how he got elected in the first place. two months after that, the vermont legislature did what vermonters had already done. they picked peter shumlin to be governor. the final vote in the legislature was 145-28. which means 28 people in the vermont legislature voted to elect somebody who the people of vermont did not vote for. a gentle reminder that states run elections, not the federal government. elections are sometimes messy, and governed by weird rules. but they are always fun, and worth whatever effort it takes. even if that effort this year includes filling out two bubbles. two of them. two. i m looking at you, north carolina. if you think running a restaurant is hard, try running four. fortunately we ve got ink. ....