{"id":7614,"date":"2011-01-10T07:56:27","date_gmt":"2011-01-10T12:56:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/?p=7614"},"modified":"2011-01-10T07:56:27","modified_gmt":"2011-01-10T12:56:27","slug":"the-non-rivalry-rivalry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7614","title":{"rendered":"The Non-Rivalry Rivalry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In light of a surprisingly good weekend of wild-card playoff football (Three games competitive until the end, and the fourth didn&#8217;t get out of hand until the second half), we have <a href=\"http:\/\/sports.espn.go.com\/espn\/page2\/story?page=simmonsnfl2010\/week18picks&amp;sportCat=nfl\">Brady, Manning and the rivalry<\/a>.  (It means a little less right now, with the Colts being bounced by the Jets, but whaddaya gonna do?)<\/p>\n<p>In comparison to other sports and other rivalries, this one isn&#8217;t.  Quarterbacks aren&#8217;t in direct competition with each other, and they don&#8217;t act like <em>rivals<\/em>.  One minor objection I have to the analysis is that they don&#8217;t emphasize the importance of the other players on the team.  While passing yards and TDs reflect talent of the quarterback, your winning percentage also has a lot to do with how good your defense is.  But that&#8217;s peripheral to the point of the story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In light of a surprisingly good weekend of wild-card playoff football (Three games competitive until the end, and the fourth didn&#8217;t get out of hand until the second half), we have Brady, Manning and the rivalry. (It means a little &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/archives\/7614\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7614\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blogs.scienceforums.net\/swansont\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}