The Cardinal Rule of Football

Here's a quote from an article on ESPN.com regarding Texas Tech's 31-27 victory over Texas A&M.

Tech trailed 27-24 when Johnson outleaped A&M cornerback Jordan Peterson to make an acrobatic catch in the front corner of the end zone, stunning the crowd of 85,979, the eighth largest in Kyle Field history.

As the teams lined up for the decisive play, Harrell spotted the single coverage on Johnson and called an audible.

"I was like, 'Robert against that guy?'" Harrell said. "I like our chances."

Dusty Thompson's (my college minister) Cardinal Rule of Football: Never put a slow white guy in single man coverage against a large, fast black man.