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I think, that the football.
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Not sure that I have ever herd that one. When I was in pee wee football we used to play bull in the ring. One guy stands in the middle of a ring of his team mates and the coach will yell out a team mates name and the guy in the middle has to tackle him. The other one was called smear the queer. The kid with the football has to run for his life while everyone else tries to tackle him. Once tackled he throws the ball up and the next queer is off and running. Ah the good ole days......
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Pig in a poke means to fool someone, make them think they are getting one thing when they are getting another. So I guess in football it would apply to any trick play.
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I'm unclear on this one. In American football the ball itself is commonly called "the pigskin", because they traditionally used to be made from pig leather. And "a pig in a poke" means buying or acquiring something sight unseen ("buying a pig in a poke" means buying a pig in a tied bag, where you can't see it in advance). But I've never heard this expression used in any football sense.
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To my knowledge, there is no play in American football which is called "pig in a poke". If you got this term from the George Clooney film "Leathernecks", then it along with "Crusty Bob" were just invented names that Clooney thought was funny. American football is filled with colorful phrases for certain widely-known plays such as a "Hail Mary Pass", but not for the ones in the film. That said...each team will keep a playbook which lists the kind of plays that the team does, and each play will have a name that all the football team's players recognize so that the quarterback can tell his teammates what the play is that they are going to run the ball with. The names of the plays as well as the plays themselves are a closely guarded secret by college and professional teams. Because of the success of the Clooney film, I don't doubt that some team somewhere will be calling a new play "Crusty Bob" in the future if not today.
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Pig in the poke was when you hid the football under your jersey.
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A "pig in a poke" is the practice of a ball runner (usually on a trick play like a triple reverse) of putting the ball (pig) under their Jersey (poke). It was always illegal, but in muddy games was difficult for officials to detect. Later teams started sewing cut outs of leather with lacing on their runner's jerseys, to confuse the defense, This was quickly outlawed. The exercise that Peyton has referred to is actually called (by civiliazed coaches) as "Bull in the Ring", Or in the southwest as "Blood on the Moon"
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