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Hello, and welcome to this week’s Friday 5! Here in the United States, we are gearing up to celebrate the unofficial holiday known as Super Bowl Sunday, on which the two best teams in American professional football vie for the championship. I’m a big fan of the Big Game, but you don’t have to know a thing about American football to answer these five questions! Please copy them to your online journal. Answer the questions there, then leave a comment below so we can all check out your responses. Don’t forget to link us from your website!

1. In American football, a fumble occurs when the player carrying the ball drops it, often resulting in a great advantage for the other team. What have you recently fumbled in your own life?
2. In American football, you have thrown an interception when someone from the other team catches the ball you meant for your teammate. Who’s often an interceptor of something you intend for someone else?
3. One of the severest penalties in American football is for unsportsmanlike conduct, when a player doesn’t play according to the spirit of fair play. In what situations are you most likely to be a perpetrator of unsportsmanlike conduct?
4. In American football, the concept of running low-risk plays that consistently gain a few yards at a time is called “moving the chains,” while the concept of going after huge gains with higher-risk plays is called the “vertical game.” In your personal life, are you more of a moving-the-chains player or a vertical-game player?
5. Sometimes in American football, the quarterback will, at the last moment, change his or her mind about the intended play, either to prevent what is likely to be a failure or to take advantage of a vulnerability in the other team. The method used in this play-change is often “calling an audible.” In what way have you recently called an audible in your life?

Thanks for participating, and have a super weekend!