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Too Fast
Contributed by Bill Burress on Nov 1, 2010 (message contributor)
TOO FAST
There was football team who never won a game, so one day before practice the coach decided to have a talk with them. He told them, "Men, our offense is bad, our defense is horrible, and our special teams are the worst I have ever seen, so today we are going back to the basics and start over."
He reached over picked up a football and said, "This is a football."
Before he could say anything else one of his players spoke up and said, "Coach, slow down, you're going too fast."
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