以下节录 ESPN 专栏文章，今年的超级盃不愧是最会钻漏洞的两队相争。 http://ppt.cc/V926 There's a team in Super Bowl XLIX that, for years, has created a major competitive advantage by blatantly disregarding NFL rules. 有一队藉着公然无视NFL规则而创造了一个重要的竞争优势 Over the past three years the Seahawks have done something no one in the white-socks-and-black-shoes, stuck-in-the-1950s NFL ever dreamed possible, or legal. Since 2012 Seattle has been at the top of the NFL in wins (tied with 36), Super Bowl appearances and ... penalties. 过去三年，有一队创造了不可思议的历史： 在胜场，超级盃出场，及犯规上，领先全联盟。 Through 18 games, the Seahawks not only have been called for a league-high 144 penalties (according to NFLpenalties.com) their opponents have only been flagged just 80 times. Yes, you read that correctly. The Seahawks have been called for almost twice as many penalties as their opponents. 今年的十八场比赛中，海鹰犯了联盟最多的 144 次犯规， 而他们的对手只有约一半的 80 次。 In a game of violence, aggression, speed and emotion, the Seahawks simply looked at the risk/reward and realized it is far better to play on the razor's edge (and beyond), to bend the rules, manhandle opponents and incur an extra flag (or 20) and, ya know, WIN THE GAMES, rather than fall in line, play like a Boy Scout and watch the playoffs from home just like the NFL's least penalized team, the 3-13 Jaguars (73). 在暴力，侵略，快速，情绪化的比赛， 海鹰考量风险与报酬下了解到最佳的打法是去挑战规则，粗暴对待对手， 拿到更多黄旗，及最重要的赢得比赛， 而不是打得像童子军然後在家看别人打季後赛。 Meanwhile, several of the top teams in the league -- Seattle, New England, Denver and Baltimore, most notably -- have all been at, or near the top of the NFL in penalties the last three seasons. 几支联盟最佳的球队，包括爱国者，野马，乌鸦都这样玩。 A year ago Seattle became the first team in at least a decade to get flagged 10 times in the Super Bowl and win. 一年以前，海鹰成为超级盃史上第一支犯了十次规而获胜的。 This all started last year, of course, when the Seahawks "revolutionized pass interference by using the same logic loophole" (http://ppt.cc/W-xd) that offensive linemen have been exploiting for years with holding. The idea is: you hold on almost every play, knowing the refs won't throw 50 flags per game. If everything is holding, the thinking goes, then nothing really is. Brilliant. Seattle just took that approach and applied it to pass coverage and it was so effective and disruptive they forced the NFL to change the rules regarding defensive holding and pass interference. 一切从去年开始海鹰发展了一套利用防守干扰漏洞(http://ppt.cc/W-xd)， 这方法的精神已被进攻线球员广泛利用。 想法是在每次几乎都犯规，反正裁判不可能一场吹个五十次犯规。 海鹰把它用在防守传球上，非常有效而迫使 NFL 要改变规则。 The Pats, by the way, were tied for fourth in the NFL in penalties this season. (Ironically, New England may fall victim in this Super Bowl to a penalties-be-damned trend they actually started in Super Bowl XXXVI when they bullied, battered and bruised Marshall Faulk on every possible play.) 爱国者今年在犯规排名第四， 而讽刺地的是，将在超级盃成为受害者的爱国者，其实正是开始这种玩法的球队， 在第三十六届超级盃，他们几乎在每一次进攻都试着霸凌 Marshall Faulk。 A lot of the Seahawks' league-leading 144 penalties are pre-snap infractions. According to NFLPenalties.com, in 18 games they had 33 false starts, 13 defensive offsides and nine neutral zone infractions. 一堆海鹰的犯规是各类的偷跑。 The Seahawks have run more than 1,000 plays this season. For argument's sake, let's say they've started all of those plays on offense a micro-second early or an inch or two closer to their opponent, but only got caught 33 times. That means the Seahawks have had a jump on their opponents on 97 percent of their offensive plays. All it did was cost them 165 yards in penalties, total, or 2 percent of their total production. Of course it's not that cut-and-dried. After all, the shame and punishment of 33 false starts caused the Seahawks to fall all the way to No. 1 in rushing. 海鹰 33 次进攻偷跑，让他们被罚了 165 码。 33 次只占了他们本季进攻次数的 3%， 被罚的码数是他们跑出码数的 2%。 而他们造就了跑阵第一的进攻。 What's more, you and I see Seattle defensive end Michael Bennett and his numerous offside penalties and we immediately think: that fool got caught 10 times - 10 TIMES! Whereas the Seahawks look at Bennett and think: that dude got away with a head start 250 TIMES! Like I said, genius. Michael Bennett 被抓到偷跑十次，你可能觉得这家伙有够逊的。 但可能是这家伙逃过了250 次。 真是天才的做法！ It was Pablo Picasso who said you had to "learn the rules like a pro so you can break them like an artist." Which means Super Bowl XLIX is shaping up to be the Seahawks finest masterpiece. 如毕卡索说的：你必须专业地学通规则，才有办法像艺术家般地钻漏洞。 而第四十九届超级盃将是海鹰所呈现最佳的成品。 --

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