Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson for December 22, 2009

It’s rough playing with a tiger….

Hobbes the Turn-COAT….LOL

Shouldn’t there be a 5 sec rule???

Panel 3 is nothing less than a horror strip… o.o

The Lions could use Hobbes.

Every team could use Hobbes.

Quarterback sack! So what’s the score?

Yeah, but the thing is when Calvin and Hobbes once played football Calvin could not even reach the ball, even if he climbed Hobbes’ body, nevertheless tackle him. So heck, ANY football team could use Hobbes as a player!

Calvin needs to stand back as if he were the kicker.

Calvin needs to stand back like the kicker.

Like I said once before. Hobbes is a Bengal.

Maybe, but the Bengals don’t need him like the Lions do.

The score is one to a gazillion.

hey! can I borrow your log in accounts?

I dont understand this game to this day in spite of my efforts!!! Calvin’s far superior to me at his age if understanding of rugby is the only criterion!! :)

Did someone change the rules of Calvinball? Whodathunk?

Calvinball (at this stage of Calvin’s life) has not yet been invented.

Don’t worry, he’ll invent it as soon as he figures out it’s the only game he has a comet’s chance in a supernova of winning. :))

nivellios, u gotta remember that clavin is only about 2 and a half or 3 feet tall

The Lions are simply in need of people who know how to play football. I mean there are probably kids playing sand lot football who can beat the Lions.

Praxsis, I know what you mean. We used to play a 3 second rule…hadda count 1Mississippi, 2 Mississippi 3 Mississippi before you could rush the QB, then it was full on blitz time.

The Christians used to be thrown to the Lions in the Colosseum. They might survive being thrown to the Detroit Lions. :o) jk

The Lions need a new owner. Calvin needs to learn the shotgun formation.

I should try that with Mona.

All of the Detroit teams can use Hobbes. My husband says they’re losing a lot of good players. I told him now that we’re in Canada we should follow the Blue Jays but I think he’ll always be a Tiger fan.

Macushlalondra I used to live in Canada and could never stoop to cheering for the Jays. I was an Expos fan before they moved to Washington. Now I’m a Red Sox fan.

Great player!

Ray C: You’re absolutely right! The shotgun formation would definitely be a lot safer for Calvin than behind this particular center!

True, Calvin is destined to be smashed taking the ball directly from the center. However, I suspect that Hobbs can make a mighty leap, as only a tiger can, and smash Calvin in the shotgun too.

LX013 Have a merry Christmas!

I feel really sorry for Calvin, he doesn’t have any friends. A lot of that is probably his own fault but it is sad that nobody will even come play football with him and Hobbes.

It’s easy to forget that Hobbes is Calvin’s “imaginary” playmate so in truth, it is Calvin who is delivering these beatings upon himself.

Do you suppose that Calvin grows up to become the Ed Norton character in “Fight Club”?

;-)

For self-preservation, Calvin might have to use the shotgun, literally. That’s a drastic, possibly tragic tactic, but maybe it’s worth a shot. I know Calvin isn’t old enough to get a license for a weapon. I’m allowing him some sort of ‘poetic license’. Hey, it could be ‘verse’. (groan)

Not many games that Calvin can play with Hobbes, that are physical

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Calvin should consider flag football. Hobbes is still going to defeat him, but at least he avoids the beating.

I never had an imaginary tiger - just an older brother who beat me up all the tme.

Macushlalondra: I spent the first 21 years of my life in Detroit, and haven’t gotten over the addiction to Detroit’s teams. I hate to think, though, what superb college players like Calvin Johnson must feel when their excellence dooms them to play in Detroit, which gets the first or second round pick routinely. The Pistons have been my only bright spot, until they dumped Billups.

Poor Detroit fans! Even the Saints never went 0-16!

If Calvin takes the ball from the shotgun position, it will only make for a bigger loss. Hobbes is too fast.

hobbes snaps the ball to calvin they should be on the same team,poor calvin gets sacked by his own player,rough game.

lol, awesome