(11-24-2019 10:58 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  Gee, David, this is a sports board, so here's one you missed, wide left:

Fred Cox, former Vikings kicker, inventor of NERF football, dies at age 80

Quote:MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Former Minnesota Vikings kicker Fred Cox, one of the last of the straight-on placekickers and a standout on several conference championship teams, has died. He was 80.

Cox, who also co-created the Nerf football, scored a Minnesota-record 1,365 points in his 15 seasons, often kicking in nasty conditions because the Vikings played outdoors during his career from 1963-77. When he retired, he was second in NFL history in scoring behind George Blanda — who also played quarterback — and had made 282 field goals.

Cox was one of 11 Vikings to play in all four of the team’s Super Bowls, all defeats. He kicked in 18 postseason games.

Brilliant guy. Nerf is wonderful. Mr. Cox did not take it far enough though. Imagine a world where bullets are made out of nerf. Imagine if cars were made out of nerf. You get run over by a nerf car...you just bounce back up.

Even planes. How safe would a nerf plane be? Imagine it!



Oh wait... rain.