Off-Season

[ElvisLives]

It's not totally off-season for everybody, yet, but I will go on record as saying that I hate off-season. It already s---s.

Just throwing that out there. Wish I was in Hawai'i. 

[bossman72]

It's not totally off-season for everybody, yet, but I will go on record as saying that I hate off-season. It already s---s.

Just throwing that out there. Wish I was in Hawai'i. 

If only they played as many football games as baseball games!

[Ralph Damren]

Refstripes.com is up 24/7 for 365 days each year or 366 in leap year. There we can get our 'football fix' on a daily or even hourly basis  ! While we all enjoy talking...er..posting football stories/questions/answers, sometimes we get off-track, which leads me to today's trivia.....

[/HOW OFTEN DOES LEAP YEAR OCCUR ??b]

[Kalle]

[/HOW OFTEN DOES LEAP YEAR OCCUR ??b]

Once every 400/97 years.

[ElvisLives]

Just read Wikipedia about leap year. Way too complicated. I’ll just check the dang calendar, and take off work on leap day, if that’s OK with everybody.

The next one is in 2024, by the way.

[Ralph Damren]

As I recall, from my murky daze of youth, it's every year divisible by four EXCEPT century years and every century year divisible by four hundred. As we recall, 2000 was a leap year while 1900 wasn't. If you were born on leap day, I'm unsure if you would celebrate your birthday on the last day of February or the first day of March .

[bossman72]

Refstripes.com is up 24/7 for 365 days each year or 366 in leap year. There we can get our 'football fix' on a daily or even hourly basis  ! While we all enjoy talking...er..posting football stories/questions/answers, sometimes we get off-track, which leads me to today's trivia.....

[/HOW OFTEN DOES LEAP YEAR OCCUR ??b]

Interesting bit from Neil Degrasse Tyson explaining how the calendar works and leap years.  Pretty cool.
https://youtu.be/I2itlUlD10M?t=215

[bossman72]

Interesting bit from Neil Degrasse Tyson explaining how the calendar works and leap years.  Pretty cool.
https://youtu.be/I2itlUlD10M?t=215

...and for anybody that cared (mostly you more nerdy types like me), here is Tom Scott explaining how to code/program for time... gets pretty complicated, but he explains it in a pretty digestible way.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5wpm-gesOY

[Ralph Damren]

Interesting bit from Neil Degrasse Tyson explaining how the calendar works and leap years.  Pretty cool.
https://youtu.be/I2itlUlD10M?t=215

Thanks, Bossman, it was interesting and reminded my of our hero, Pope Gregory, for getting us back in line ! I hope those disappearing 10 days wasn't during football season  . As I recall, this replaced the calendar devised by Julius Caesar. I assume Julius wished the Pope had removed the Ides of March  ….

[/ WISHING ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR !! font]

[Kalle]

If you want a real headache, try figuring out the date of Easter for a couple of years As a hint, the date is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March.

[ElvisLives]

Thanks, Bossman, it was interesting and reminded my of our hero, Pope Gregory, for getting us back in line ! I hope those disappearing 10 days wasn't during football season  . As I recall, this replaced the calendar devised by Julius Caesar. I assume Julius wished the Pope had removed the Ides of March  ….

[/ WISHING ALL A HAPPY NEW YEAR !! font]

et tu Brute?!

Happy New Year to Ralph and everyone else!

[ElvisLives]

If you want a real headache, try figuring out the date of Easter for a couple of years As a hint, the date is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March.

I'm lucky to be able to count to 4. I need a good umpire and head line judge to get the penalty distances correct!

[riffraft]

As I recall, from my murky daze of youth, it's every year divisible by four EXCEPT century years and every century year divisible by four hundred. As we recall, 2000 was a leap year while 1900 wasn't. If you were born on leap day, I'm unsure if you would celebrate your birthday on the last day of February or the first day of March .

My daughter was born on Feb 29th.  Most people wish her a happy birthday on feb 28th.  I refuse because if it hadn't been a leap year she would have been born on March 1st. so that is when I celebrate it with her. Of course I like to tell her that she is too young to have her 3 kids because she has celebrated only 7 birthdays so far.

[riffraft]

If you want a real headache, try figuring out the date of Easter for a couple of years As a hint, the date is the first Sunday after the first full moon on or after 21 March.

Not to be too technical but it is actually the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox which can be March 19th, 20th or 21st.

[Kalle]

Not to be too technical but it is actually the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox which can be March 19th, 20th or 21st.

You can never be "too technical" Actually most (all?) churches use the fixed date of March 21st for the equinox instead of the true astronomical date. See for example https://www.rmg.co.uk/stories/topics/when-easter and https://www.census.gov/data/software/x13as/genhol/easter-dates.html

[CalhounLJ]

Nothing like a debate over the Easter date to get your blood flowing.... .
Happy New Year everyone.

[NVFOA_Ump]

 

Nothing like a debate over the Easter date to get your blood flowing.... .
Happy New Year everyone.

 

[yarnnelg]

You could move to Florida.

August to the end of November. High School and Youth

Mid January to May  Semi Pro

Girl's Flag January to about March.

May High School Spring Games.

[Ralph Damren]

As I recall from my Roman History daze, Emperor Constitene was the deciding factor  . Being the first Roman emperor to embrace Christianity , he was put off by the fact that Easter was celebrated at different times by different churches. He asked several church leaders to gather and come up with a common date  . They couldn't  . The emperor than said he would do it :

(1) Sunday is the Christian Holy Day, so it should be on a Sunday.(2) Easter celebrates the Rebirth of Christ, Spring celebrates rebirth of much nature, so it should be in early Spring.(3) Many Christians would pilgrimage to Calvary ,a few by horse/donkey/camel but most by foot. There was very few street lights back in Rome back in the 3rd or 4th century. A nighttime journey to Calvary was done best under a full moon.

MAY 2022 BRING HAPPENESS TO ALL       

[Ralph Damren]

Not to be too technical but it is actually the first full moon on or after the vernal equinox which can be March 19th, 20th or 21st.

To git even more technical, where the phases of the moon differs depending where you are on this planet, if the full moon shows up in one town but not yet in another shortly after the vernal equinox there is a 'tie-breaker'. The moon phase over the Greenwich meridian decides if this is the 'real full moon' before Easter, or not. That's enough useless knowledge for today  , as the Pats play the Jags at 1:05 EST - (I believe 6:05 PM GMT) 

[Ralph Damren]

To continue this riveting discussion of time, without mentioning the game clock or play clock, let me ask a question that most everyone of us wondered when we were microboppers  ....

What time is it at the North Pole ??  . At Pittsfield, Maine, USA, Earth it is now 7:30 AM EST, who can tell us the time at the North Pole  ....

[ElvisLives]

To continue this riveting discussion of time, without mentioning the game clock or play clock, let me ask a question that most everyone of us wondered when we were microboppers  ....

What time is it at the North Pole ??  . At Pittsfield, Maine, USA, Earth it is now 7:30 AM EST, who can tell us the time at the North Pole  ....

That's like a coach asking "Which one?!!" when you call an illegal formation on his team.  I don't know, Coach. You called the play and formation. You pick one of the 5 (or more) that were in the backfield.

The North Pole is the "Quantum Realm" that is referenced so many times in the Marvel movies. 

I have no time for this.  ( See what I did there?)

[Ralph Damren]

HINT : You can find the answer in post #19. Remember, time zones are calibrated by degrees of longitude. All time zones would meet at the two poles. While explorers, scientists , or football coaches on the lam often use the time zone from which they came, There is only 1 of the 24 time zones that is officially used for locations on the polar side of 80 degrees north and south latitude. If  all the time zones  reached the poles, you could  walk/stumble with your favorite beverage around the pole and celebrate the New Year 24 times  .....

OR SO I'm TOLD 

[Kalle]

To continue this riveting discussion of time, without mentioning the game clock or play clock, let me ask a question that most everyone of us wondered when we were microboppers  ....

What time is it at the North Pole ??  . At Pittsfield, Maine, USA, Earth it is now 7:30 AM EST, who can tell us the time at the North Pole  ....

I'm gonna throw you a curve ball and say with full confidence that at 7:30 AM EST, the time at the North Pole is 3:30 AM

As to the time zones above 80 degrees north, I think at least Greenland has more than one, Canada has a couple, and Russia and Norway one each.

[Ralph Damren]

I'm gonna throw you a curve ball and say with full confidence that at 7:30 AM EST, the time at the North Pole is 3:30 AM

As to the time zones above 80 degrees north, I think at least Greenland has more than one, Canada has a couple, and Russia and Norway one each.

The 3: 30 AM, I believe is for North Pole, ALASKA ; where  bright eyed kids can send their letters to Santa  . I once read that GMT was used above the 80th degree latitude. I can't always believe what I read.