Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for October 17, 2014

You’ll live to lose another day.

Smart decision, Calvin! ;)

A wise move in the circumstances!

I want to see Hobbes go up against Lucy to see who gets the ball!

Winning isn’t everything. It comes right after “surviving”.

Organized sports suck, even when he’s playing them “alone.”

Survival is certainly something.

Where’s his Giants uniform?

You can win in a new, special way!!

let the wookiee win – a wonderful motto

You can’t play on my team Calvin.

I don’t think, that someone who wins with knowledge, but doesn’t help anybody and is not good to other people will go to God into his heaven!!

Calvin is one of the smaller running backs. He has some difficulty tucking the ball away as he runs. That’s because the ball is the same size as his body, except for his head and feet.

It’s ok to let the cat win, unless he plans on eating you.

If you get eaten by a stuffed toy, do you become the stuffed toys’ stuffing?

Hobbes — I thought you’d have an old Peanuts strip with Linus (or is it his brother) trying to shoot free-throws with a basketball as big as he is.

@pshapley: Good suggestion. Here’s Linus’s little brother, Rerun, with a basketball the size of his body. This strip was drawn one year before Charles Schulz died:Click here: Peanuts (February 28, 1999)

Seems to be quite a disparity in Calvins and Hobbes talent level. Perhaps Calvin should play in a different league, one more in tune with his lack of talent. Hobbes may be ready for the NFL.

This is why you shouldn’t play football with tigers. Haha

But besides, I tell you very quietly……..winning is better!

@JP Steve: It does seem like Charles Schulz invented the proportions that were followed by later cartoonists like Bill Watterson, with the large heads, small bodies, and large sports equipment. Schulz was forced to do this because the original Peanuts daily strips were very small, so that he had less space to work with than other cartoonists, but the readers still needed to be able to see the expressions on the characters’ faces. The small panels also forced Schulz to use fewer words in general, and to create simple line drawings without room for elaborate artwork. The appearance of the characters, the simplicity of the drawings, and the economy of words became original, appealing characteristics of Peanuts for the readers. Ironically, the lack of space turned out to be a blessing in disguise, because “necessity was the mother of invention.”

I was small growing up. When I graduated from high school, I was 5’ 10" and 109 pounds. But I was the best soccer player on the team. I would run directly at the opposing player who had the ball at my fastest speed. This confused and frightened the opposing player, who would often move out of the way (and away from the ball) to protect himself from the Crazy Guy. Worked almost every time.

That’s the spirit!

If all the opposing players are equipped with claws, capitulation is your safest bet.