On " Lois and Clark", Clark had football trophies on the shelf. It
occurred
to me then that QB was the perfect position for him. The QB doesn't hit
people, usually hands the ball off. No matter how well he throws it,
someone still has to catch it for it to count, so he can't throw it too
hard
or far. And when he's sacked, he just goes down, no harm done. The
better
a QB is, the more he's discouraged from running the ball himself, so he
has
an out.
Of course, screenwriters can mess the whole thing up as they did when TW
ran
the ball a few weeks ago and hurt someone.
"Tim Bruening" <tsbrueni@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote in message
news:42009B60.5BEED0E6@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >
>
> On Sat, 16 Oct 2004 13:43:33 -0400 Reverend Lovejoy wrote:
>
> Bill Bickel wrote:
> > Exactly why is it cheating for Clark to play football, when it isn't
> > cheating for, say, abnormally super-sized men to play basketball?
Clark
has
> > Kryptonian genes, Suleiman Ali Nashnush had "8 feet tall" genes.
What's
the
> > difference?
> >
> > Bill Bickel
> >
> >
>
> Well, FWIW, what we've seen on the show is that Clark has discreet
> "powers" that he has to invoke in order to use, as indicated by the fact
> that normal humans can be imbued with them (Jonathon Kent, the leech
> guy) and Clark can lose them (the leech episoode again).
>
> So it's not just a matter of Clark being super-strong or super-fast. He
> has normal strength and speed, probably being whatever his muscles can
> do normally, sans powers. He also has powers, with which he can amplify
> his strength or speed - but need to be invoked consciously, and are
> separate from whatever his muscles can do.
>
> So, it is *possible* to imagine Clark playing fairly and not cheat.
> There's a discreet point where his natural strength and speed ends and
> he has to use powers to go further, which he can choose not to cross.
>
> That explains how he can make love safely!
>
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