Milestone GAW-Pick Your Poison

I count two members that guessed right on with 32. Can you all verify that?
 
Missed it by that much...How many sacks?

Probably would have got in earlier, but we've been having weather. No net most of the last 24 hours.

Thanks for the chance, and congratulations to the winner.
 
Ok. I have:
Zemapeli with 7 sacks.
And
Laughing Bones with 20 sacks.

I'm going to have to review the game film tomorrow and add up the sacks. Let the suspense build.......
 
I shall continue to ponder what a sack is! :o :D :thumbup:
 
Jack, a sack is when the defense breaks through the offensive line and brings the quarterback (the guy that calls the plays or throws the ball) to the ground causing a "down". The offense gets four "downs" per play sequence to try to score or move the ball sufficiently far enough downfield to gain a new first down.
 
BigBiscuit said:
Jack, a sack is when the defense breaks through the offensive line and brings the quarterback (the guy that calls the plays or throws the ball) to the ground causing a "down". The offense gets four "downs" per play sequence to try to score or move the ball sufficiently far enough downfield to gain a new first down.
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Thanks a lot for explaining that Bob, much appreciated :thumbup:

Here, getting 'the sack' is to be fired from work! :D
 
Jack Black said:
Thanks a lot for explaining that Bob, much appreciated :thumbup:

Here, getting 'the sack' is to be fired from work! :D
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I've occasionally wondered if those two uses of "sack" (football and employment) are related.

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
I've occasionally wondered if those two uses of "sack" (football and employment) are related.
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Possibly so, a lot of slang words and phrases are really old :)

The phrase to 'sack it off' is also used here to mean to finish something prematurely or to cancel it. Eg "Shall we sack off fishing on account of the rain?"
 
Jack Black said:
Possibly so, a lot of slang words and phrases are really old :)

The phrase to 'sack it off' is also used here to mean to finish something prematurely or to cancel it. Eg "Shall we sack off fishing on account of the rain?"
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Interesting; not a usage I've noticed in the American Midwest. While awaiting official announcement of a winner, and selection of a "prize knife", I'll ask another "sack" question. Jack, is "sack" ever used in England for "bed"? "Hit the sack", "sack out", "need some sack time" are all phrases with a bed or sleep connotation; no idea whether they originated in some way related to sleeping bags.

- GT
 
5K Qs said:
Interesting; not a usage I've noticed in the American Midwest. While awaiting official announcement of a winner, and selection of a "prize knife", I'll ask another "sack" question. Jack, is "sack" ever used in England for "bed"? "Hit the sack", "sack out", "need some sack time" are all phrases with a bed or sleep connotation; no idea whether they originated in some way related to sleeping bags.
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The term 'Hit the sack' is certainly used, and has been since I was a boy, but if it originated here or was imported, I'm afraid I don't know.

I found this (below) here: http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=sack

sack (n.1) Look up sack at Dictionary.com
"large bag," Old English sacc (West Saxon), sec (Mercian), sæc (Old Kentish) "large cloth bag," also "sackcloth," from Proto-Germanic *sakkiz (cognates: Middle Dutch sak, Old High German sac, Old Norse sekkr, but Gothic sakkus probably is directly from Greek), an early borrowing from Latin saccus (also source of Old French sac, Spanish saco, Italian sacco), from Greek sakkos, from Semitic (compare Hebrew saq "sack").

The wide spread of the word is probably due to the Biblical story of Joseph, in which a sack of corn figures (Gen. xliv). Baseball slang sense of "a base" is attested from 1913. Slang meaning "bunk, bed" is from 1825, originally nautical. The verb meaning "go to bed" is recorded from 1946. Sack race attested from 1805.
sack (n.2) Look up sack at Dictionary.com
"a dismissal from work," 1825, from sack (n.1), perhaps from the notion of the worker going off with his tools in a bag; the original formula was to give (someone) the sack. It is attested earlier in French (on luy a donné son sac, 17c.) and Dutch (iemand de zak geven).
sack (n.4) Look up sack at Dictionary.com
"sherry," 1530s, alteration of French vin sec "dry wine," from Latin siccus "dry" (see siccative).
sack (v.1) Look up sack at Dictionary.com
"to plunder," 1540s, from Middle French sac, in the phrase mettre à sac "put it in a bag," a military leader's command to his troops to plunder a city (parallel to Italian sacco, with the same range of meaning), from Vulgar Latin *saccare "to plunder," originally "to put plundered things into a sack," from Latin saccus "bag" (see sack (n.1)). The notion is probably of putting booty in a bag.
sack (n.3) Look up sack at Dictionary.com
"plunder; act of plundering, the plundering of a city or town after storming and capture," 1540s, from French sac "pillage, plunder," from Italian sacco (see sack (v.1)).
sack (v.2) Look up sack at Dictionary.com
"put in a bag," late 14c., from sack (n.1). Related: Sacked; sacking.
sack (v.4) Look up sack at Dictionary.com
type of U.S. football play, 1969, from sack (v.1) in the sense of "to plunder" or sack (v.2) on the notion of "put in a bag." As a noun from 1972.
sack (v.3) Look up sack at Dictionary.com
"dismiss from work," 1841, from sack (n.2). Related: Sacked; sacking.
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Suspense................ with added education.........I'm waiting for the film to be added to our share site......suspense............
 
Sorry for the digressions Josh :thumbup:

Suspense indeed! :)
 
I just reviewed the game.
There were a total of 76 plays.
The good guys sacked the quarterback 6 times.
Our opponents sacked our quarterback 0 times.
Total sacks=6

Zemapeli-YOU WIN. Congratulations. Please pick one of the knives and send me your address and I'll get it out to you tomorrow.

I just wanted to once again say that I am glad that this forum exists and I appreciate all the hard work of the moderators for their efforts and the general membership. This is forum is a wonderful privilege.

My thanks to all and until the next one,
Josh
 
Zemapeli-As per the rules, you have 24 hours to get in touch. Due to your user setting/membership level, I'm not able to PM or send email, so you have until 8:52am (Eastern Standard Time-US) tomorrow to pick the knife of your choice and send me your address.

Take care,
Josh
 
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I guess it's too late to edit my post and put in the numbers I meant.
Great GAW, Rockon. Congrats, Zemapeli.
 
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