A "Y" shaped bone in a turkey and some other animals that is played with by two people trying to pull the bone, and whoever has most of the bone after it breaks is the winner.
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The wishbone offense got its name because of the way it looks when diagrammed. In the wishbone offense the backfield is shaped like an inverted Y (or a "wishbone from a turkey", get it? ) : TE/WR_____LT LG C RG RT______TE/WR ______________QB ______________FB ___________RB_____RB (please forgive the lines, I didnt know how else to space the positions apart. Tab wouldn't work.)
Darrell Royal called his new 1968 offense a "wishbone" offense after it was first named the "pulleybone" offense by a reporterIt was Emory Bellard, an assistant of Darrell Royal who created the "Wishbone" and a sportswriter named Mickey Herskowitz gave it the name in 1968.
The letter Y has a wishbone shape.
The growth of McCarthyism and the advent of a new Red Scare in the 1950s gave the Reds' owners concerns that the club's traditional nickname would be seen as an association with the dreaded Red Menace. The name of the team was officially changed to the Cincinnati Redlegs and the new 1956 uniforms wiped out the REDS lettering from inside the C-REDS logo, leaving a plain wishbone C in red.
Written in the early days of World War II,as a spiritual legacy to his son Arthur.Made public after the general died in 1964.A Father's Prayerby General Douglas MacArthurBuild me a son, O Lord, who will be strong enough to know when he is weak, and brave enough to face himself when he is afraid; one who will be proud and unbending in honest defeat, and humble and gentle in victory.Build me a son whose wishbone will not be where his backbone should be; a son who will know Thee and that to know himself is the foundation stone of knowledge.Lead him I pray, not in the path of ease and comfort, but under the stress and spur of difficulties and challenge. Here let him learn to stand up in the storm; here let him learn compassion for those who fail.Build me a son whose heart will be clear, whose goal will be high; a son who will master himself before he seeks to master other men; one who will learn to laugh, yet never forget how to weep; one who will reach into the future, yet never forget the past.And after all these things are his, add, I pray, enough of a sense of humor, so that he may always be serious, yet never take himself too seriously. Give him humility, so that he may always remember the simplicity of true greatness, the open mind of true wisdom, the meekness of true strength.Then, I, his father, will dare to whisper, "I have not lived in vain"