They don't want to listen to coaches this time of year, they don't want to look at video, they want to play the game and find out where they're at.
And Jackson, making his first start at fly-half, almost sneaked an amazing victory with the last play of the game but he ran out of gas after intercepting a Bath attack inside his own 22.
Everyone was doing it and, just like the tulip bubble centuries before, you needed to get with the program and play the game or be left out.
If you liked to play with LEGOs or Lincoln Logs as a child, you might be a bit put off by all the virtual game play out there.
The ballboy, who is the son of club director Martin Morgan, fell on the ball after it went out of play late in the game as Chelsea chased the two goals they needed to send the tie into extra time.
The home side were happy to play possession football after that and closed out the game with ease - keeping plenty in reserve while sending out a clear signal of their intent to regain their title.
We have a model of how this may all play out in the end game which might be as long as a decade from now.
Curiously absent from this scenario was the fact that the players wear full uniforms with pads and protection, play a game under a time clock, out in the open, in front of family and fans.
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With the rest of the leaders playing over the weekend, the Sharks may drop out of the top four again, but play their game in hand against Wasps in High Wycombe on Tuesday evening.
But almost immediately he made a hash of a clearance kick from his 22, gifting the Dragons a five-metre line-out as the game entered its final play.
The moment was sweet redemption for the 23-year-old McDonagh, whose delay-of-game penalty when he inadvertently shot the puck out of play led directly to Mike Green's overtime goal in Game 2 on Saturday.
He wants to play in the game, he wants to ride out his career under the glory of a second championship, and he wants to minimize the distraction for his teammates.
With Luol Deng (illness) and Kirk Hinrich (bruised left calf) out again and Derrick Rose still not ready to return from last year's torn ACL, the Bulls leaned on Noah, who could barely play when the Bulls were blown out here two weeks ago in Game 1 because of plantar fasciitis in his right foot.
Every single time that we do a show, every time the ratings come out, I say the same thing to everybody: Play your game, keep it going, and try not to waver from that game plan.
Evans had hauled the ball in completely before New England's Sterling Moore knocked the pigskin out of the receiver's hands in a game-saving play.
"I retire today not because I don't feel I can go out there and still play the game at a very high level, " Merriman wrote.
For all the talk about Blackwater and Houston oil industry firms connected to Dick Cheney, it took a Wall Street player to truly figure out how to play the war game.
After failing to make an impact with the new ball at the start of the Lions second innings, West Indies opted to stay out in the middle after the scheduled close and play the game to a finish.
Polish ministers say they have at last woken up to the need to move faster, sort out their creaking public-procurement system and generally play the EU game.
On the last play of the game, Tom Brady's desperation pass into the end zone landed just out of the reach of Rob Gronkowski.
How your creature, and your world, turns out depends on how you play the game.
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At times, I found myself distracted from the actual game by watching little vignettes play out in front of me.
Ferguson has produced teams and players to grace the game, sending them out to play in an attacking style to score goals and win matches.
Like Messi and CR7 and Drogba at Chelsea, the system fit their games, the managers didnt want them to play out of their game.
Two umpires officiate on the game from out on the field of play, but at international level there is also a third umpire on the sidelines and a match referee.
And then, once the game gets out of hand and all you can think about is going home, you get to play the second half against a bunch of gung-ho second- and third-teamers who view knocking your tired body around as the highlight of their season.
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The Giants and Niners play the second game Sunday, in a Candlestick that's burned out but brimming with ghosts.
But it is this type of situation that brings the best out of the Scotland side who will play a much wider game now that Paterson is back pulling the strings at number 10 and a pair of wings who can expect plenty of balls in their hands.
He knows it inside out and he understands the game that Wales wants to play better than any of our nines.
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