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ESPN: The "Legend" of the Rabbits

post #1 of 9
3/10/08 at 6:08pm
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Anyone catch the "Legend" of the Rabbits special on ESPN over the weekend? I think they played it half a dozen times.

Here's a link to a summary of the special:

http://sports.espn.go.com/espn/print...005&type=story

Basically, ESPN concluded that teens living in "Muck City" (an apparently poor section of Florida near the Everglades) are so fast, and make such great football players, because they spend a great deal of time chasing and catching rabbits that flee sugar cane fires. I'm not kidding. That is the premise of the entire story. Perhaps most entertaining is that just about every critter caught during the on-air special didn't look anything like any rabbit I've ever seen. They looked like guinea pigs or perhaps other rodents. Also: the premise that catching rabbits increases one's 40 yard dash (as opposed to running and exercising in general) seems pretty suspect. Maybe wild guinea pigs are a good source of nutrients (the sight of these skinned varmints being fried up was rather nauseating).

Maybe they should have focused on the inadvisability of sugar cane harvesting to support everglade economies, as that appeared to be a more useful allocation of time and energy.
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post #2 of 9
3/10/08 at 6:26pm
You're making this up, aren't you?
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post #3 of 9
3/10/08 at 6:27pm
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You're making this up, aren't you?
No, but I wish I was. This was a feature length special. Really.
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post #4 of 9
3/11/08 at 10:13am
Written by Jimmy the Greek, Jr.

The same kind of story follows Jerry Rice--everyone surmises his great pass-catching ability flowed from the fact that he helped his dad with his masonry work by catching bricks when he was a kid. There's a RB for FSU that has already said that he couldn't wait to go back home in the off-season to south Florida to run in the swamps to strengthen his legs. It's similar to running on the beach, except the swamp is more likely to take your shoes off. I had a small pond in my front yard when I was very young, and after a drought, it turned into a mini-swamp, and we used to play football it in all the time, since it evened the playing field between the guys that could run fast and those that couldn't. Plus, it didn't hurt when you dove for footballs.
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post #5 of 9
3/13/08 at 6:03pm
Thing is though, an inordinate amount of these rabbit chasing kids have gone on to play some pretty big time college football.
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post #6 of 9
3/13/08 at 6:25pm
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Thing is though, an inordinate amount of these rabbit chasing kids have gone on to play some pretty big time college football.
Many of these rabbit chasing kids also walk on unpaved streets. Clearly, walking on unpaved streets is what enabled them to play big time college football.
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post #7 of 9
3/13/08 at 6:28pm
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You're making this up, aren't you?
Nope. For years FSU coaches would recruit these kids because their speed was ridiculous. Eventually other teams caught on and now numerous schools look for these speed freaks.
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post #8 of 9
3/13/08 at 10:46pm
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Many of these rabbit chasing kids also walk on unpaved streets. Clearly, walking on unpaved streets is what enabled them to play big time college football.
I don't get why you think this is so ridiculous.

If you spend a lot of time running after rodents (which would basically be a sprint) in marsh land, it's going to build muscle and require better control and agility than running on hard surfaces. If you do it long enough, you're going to develop proficiencies that someone not running in a soggy, uneven surfrace wouldn't have.

It isn't exactly like it's magic. It's pretty easy to explain and not at all hard to understand.
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post #9 of 9
3/13/08 at 11:57pm
Ditto. Not sure why this is supposed to be so preposterous.

If you don't think that it's odd that all of these kids are being signed by/looked at by big time, D-I college squads and that the common thread between them is that they chase rabbits, then I don't know what else to say.

I would imagine you can get a lot faster by trying to RUN DOWN AND CATCH RABBITS than you can doing, oh, just about anything else.
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