Please Stop Using Baseball To Describe Football
Photo: Lynne Sladky (AP) A home run has never happened in a football game, and yet home runs can be found all over writing about the sport, mainly when it comes to transactions. A new coach is a “home-run hire.” Wow! A team “hit a home run” with its draft picks. Okay! Here are people in football who have been described as home-run hires: Lovie Smith, Chris Petersen if he went to the NFL, Kevin Sumlin, Chip Kelly, Willie Taggart, Marcus Lattimore, whoever would take over at Arizona State after Todd Graham, Hue Jackson, and not Dan Mullen. That last one is quite a trip: After swinging for the...
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