When Four Seconds Mattered

Some people might think that sitting high up in the end zone of a college football stadium is not a good place to watch a game. They would be wrong.The ultimate strategic goal of every football team in every game they play is simple: Score more than the other team.

That makes the goal line and the goal post the key locations on the field — and both sit at the end of the field. To score, a team must either put the ball across the goal line or kick it through the uprights.To accomplish either, it needs to engage in offensive maneuvers designed, play by play, to move the ball toward its opponent’s goal line.A fan sitting on the 50-yard line whose position requires him to look across the field does not see the game from the same perspective as the players moving up and down it.A fan sitting in the en …