In sports, we now have all types of statistics and terminology that receive much more attention today than they did 20 years ago, if they even existed then. We have WAR stats. We have DOVA stats. Another phrase that has bolted into popularity in the past ten or so years is "trap game."
Do these new stats, metrics and terms add to our understanding of sports, especially football? Maybe so, but the vagueness of some terms, especially trap games, leads to a whirlwind of discussion, some civil and some not so civil.
The theory behind a trap game is simple, but even as recently as 2003, ESPN writers were explaining what a trap game was to readers.