"...Athletes is about supply and demand. There are very few people who can supply an acurate, repeatable 50 yeard pass(or whatever) while 3 or 4 300 pound guys moving as fast as an elk bear down on them.
>As fast as an elk? Is that some kind of Canadian measure
>of velocity? Can you get a speeding ticket for going 2
>elks in a school zone? What is the speed of light in elks?
>>Its a canadian unit of velocity AND mass. (So now that I
>>think about it its a unit of momentum). Its defined as
>>the momentum of your average elk running at the average
>>maximum elk speed. A football player with all his gear
>>does about 0.2 elk.
>>Im upset that us yanks are still using Imperial Elk instead of Metric.
>>What is the speed of light in elks?
>>What do you mean? An African or European elk?
>>Are Canadian engines measured in elk-power? By the way:
>>elks can run at about 35 MPH [discovermyvillage.com],
>>and the speed of light is 186,282 miles per second,
>>so I guess the speed of light is 19,160,434 elks.
>>What is the speed of light in elks?
>>Zero. Elks are opaque."
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