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Please, oh please! Someone please put an end to the madness that is the option offense.

Living in this area, football fans see how successful Navy has been running the option for so many years. In defense of the midshipmen, recruiting the consensus best high school players to a military academy is difficult. Running the option offense with undersized players is what makes the most sense for the school.

When are people going to get over themselves?

As one of my favorite musicians once sang: I’m starting with the man in the mirror.

Often it seems whenever an athlete finds himself in the winner’s circle, or when she is being interviewed following a high-energy kind of contest, the word war is used to describe the proceedings. Battle is another word athletes tend to use. Though it should be recognizable each time, it is usually when there is a major military loss that using those terms in "sports speak" really bugs me.

Long before I attended law school I made a meager living as a history teacher at local high schools and as an adjunct in local colleges and along the way developed a lifelong interest in the subject and especially American history.