Word: flex
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Some gear actually does work a little better than the earlier models it is supposed to supersede. At Easton Aluminum's big test lab in California's San Fernando Valley, techies have succeeded in stiffening the "flex" of an arrow's aluminum shaft by thirty-thousandths of an inch. Result? A faster arrow and reduced wind resistance. But after radical sports-gear breakthroughs (big-head tennis racquets and golf clubs, high-back plastic ski boots), the improvements are marginal and often largely cosmetic. Mountain bikes, for instance, are madly popular everywhere, but they are not really all that useful...
...career on the philosophy that doing many things is better than doing one. Although he didn't start playing football until he was 15 (a high school coach saw Restic kicking a football with his friends and recruited him on the spot, George Gipp-style), Restic and his "Multi-Flex" offense opened doors for coaches throughout the sport...
Instead of featuring a conservative three-yards-and-a-cloud-of-dust attack, the Multi-Flex was designed to attack a defense on every front. Putting men in motion, spreading the field, throwing the ball--the Multi-Flex probed for a weakness and exploited whatever it found...
...roots of the Multi-Flex grew out of the nine years Restic coached in the Canadian Football League before he came to Harvard. The CFL's rules--12 men on the field, three downs to go 10 yards and unlimited motion in the backfield--encouraged offensive imagination and crazy plays...
...limit of the rulebook. Game officials had to be briefed before each game. (One referee commented that he had difficulty telling which receivers were eligible and which were not, but always gave Restic the benefit of the doubt.) In 1973, former Northeastern Coach Joe Zabilski called the Multi-Flex "the most imaginative offense around, the thing of the future...