Welcome back to the second season of The Daily Gopher’s Football Seminar. For those checking in for the first time, every Monday during the football season I assign a topic for the week and then we talk about it in the comments. Sometimes people just read instead. This week we’re talking about the Pistol formation, not the Pistol offense.
Why are we even talking about the Pistol? For that matter what is the Pistol? Let’s start with the first question. We are talking about the Pistol because Minnesota’s new offensive coordinator Jay Johnson regularly had his teams line up in the formation.