TLDR: The Rams & Coinbase won Super Bowl LVI + Paul Harvey and how the huddle was born
We had choices today.
It was either football or Valentine’s Day.
I’m going with football.
Apparently Coinbase won.
But I digress. Today, a history lesson on the huddle.
Growing up, Paul Harvey was a staple on the radio of my dad’s car.
The format of the show The Rest of the Story was simple:
Harvey narrates a compelling short story on a topic you’re almost certainly familiar with, and then drops an unpredictable twist at the end that makes you go “ohh, wow, I can’t believe that!,” followed by his famous line: “and now you know, the rest of the story.”
For whatever reason, this one stuck with me, and it’s only four minutes, so I’m just going to embed it. If you’re not nostalgic about the show, or don’t have 240 seconds to listen to Paul Harvey’s incredible radio voice, the spoiler is at the bottom.
See you Monday.
Spoiler.
“…but [the huddle] wasn’t, and you know better, you know [the huddle] was born in the 1880’s, and perhaps not in the entire world is there a football team whose offensive unit does not go to the huddle before each play because nearly a hundred years ago, one team had to. I said one team had to. One team had to get close enough to see the hand signals or the diagram in the dust for the next play. At Gallaudet College for the Deaf. And now you know the rest of the story.”