That’s William’s description of most football plays. For him, touchdowns and incompletions are the least exciting plays in football, because nobody falls down (or is knocked down.) By that token, he quite enjoyed the Rider game last night. At halftime, he convinced me that we should play football (by which he meant, running and then falling down.)

Being a curious little boy, he is always asking me questions about the game while we watch it. Mostly of the following variety - “Who is that guy?” “What does [player name] do?” “Why?”

So, in our halftime game of “football” William turned to me and said “I’ll be Damon Allen, you be Nealon Greene, and knock Damon Allen down.” You see, the QB is the most prominently featured player on the field most of the time, so those are the names he remembers. He was quite confused by Nealon Greene for a while, because he’s not really green. Fortunately he plays for the Riders so at least he wears green.

It was a lot of fun running around with him, then falling down, which caused him to laugh uproariously.

Simpson’s quote of the day: “We studied traffic patterns and found that drivers move the fastest through yellow lights, so now we just have the red and yellow lights, mm-haiai.” - Professor Frink