6 Rufus the Doofus

Chapter 6 Rufus the Doofus Coach Hyatt showed up at our next practice with Wyatt the Nose Picker. A big, brown, rubber thing was strapped to the roof of the Mini Cooper. "What's that big, brown, rubber thing?" we all asked. "Last time I told you ragamuffins about the end zone dance," the coach said. "Today I want to talk about another very important part of football—the blimp." "You got a blimp?" asked Ryan. We all got excited, because blimps are cool. "Not exactly," Coach Hyatt said as she took the big, brown, rubber thing off the roof of her car and put it on the grass. "I couldn't get a blimp. But I got something

第6章笨蛋鲁弗斯海亚特教练出现在我们和挖鼻人怀亚特的下一次训练中。 一个巨大的棕色橡胶东西被绑在Mini Cooper的车顶上。 “那个棕色的橡胶大家伙是什么？”我们都问。 “上次我告诉过你们这些乌合之众，我们要在终点区跳舞，”教练说。 “今天我想谈谈足球的另一个非常重要的部分——飞艇。” “你有飞艇吗？”瑞恩问。 我们都很兴奋，因为飞艇很酷。 “不完全是，”凯亚特教练一边说，一边从车顶上取下那个棕色的橡胶大家伙，放在草地上。 “我买不到飞艇。但我得到了一些东西

even better!" "What is it?" Michael asked. "Oh, you'll see," said Coach Hyatt. She attached a bike pump to the big, brown, rubber thing and started pumping air into it. It got bigger and bigger. And you'll never believe in a million hundred years what it turned out to be. It was a giant, inflatable moose! "This is Rufus," said Coach Hyatt. "He's our mascot. I call him Rufus T. Moose. The T stands for 'the.' Rufus the Moose will float over the field and inspire us to victory." "Where'd you get him?" I asked, Rent-A-Blimp?" "No, Rent-A-Blimp," Coach Hyatt said. "Some other team got the last blimp, so I was able to get a discount on Rufus. Isn't he awesome?" No, he wasn't. Rufus the Moose was kind

更好的!”“什么事？”迈克尔问道。 “哦，你等着瞧吧，”凯悦教练说。 她把一个自行车打气筒装在那个棕色的橡胶大家伙上，开始往里面打气。 它变得越来越大。再过一百万年你也不会相信结果是什么。 那是一只巨大的充气驼鹿！“这是鲁弗斯，”海厄特教练说。 “他是我们的吉祥物。我叫他Rufus T。 麋鹿。T代表“The”。驼鹿鲁弗斯将飘过田野，激励我们走向胜利。” “你从哪儿弄来的？”我问：“租飞艇？”“不，租飞艇，”凯亚特教练说。 “别的队得到了最后一架飞艇，所以我可以在鲁弗斯身上打个折扣。 他是不是很棒？”不，他不是。 驼鹿鲁弗斯很善良

of wrinkled, and one of his antlers looked like it was about to fall off. Rufus the Doofus was more like it. I didn't tell Coach Hyatt that her moose was lame because I didn't want to hurt her feelings. The coach tied Rufus the Doofus to a tree so he wouldn't blow away. Then she wheeled a big whiteboard out of the equipment shed. It was like the whiteboards we use at school. "It's time to go over some plays," Coach Hyatt told us. She drew a bunch of Xs and Os on the board to represent the players on our team and another team. Then she drew lines to show where each of us was supposed to run. We went over a bunch of running plays and passing plays. I knew most of them already from last season.

皱巴巴的，一只鹿角好像要掉下来了。 笨蛋鲁弗斯更像。 我没有告诉海亚特教练她的驼鹿是跛的因为我不想伤害她的感情。 教练把笨蛋鲁弗斯绑在一棵树上，这样他就不会被风吹走。 然后她把一块大白板从设备棚里推了出来。 就像我们在学校里用的白板一样。 “是时候复习一些战术了，”凯亚特教练告诉我们。 她在黑板上画了一堆x和o来代表我们队和另一支队的队员。 然后她画了几条线来表示我们每个人应该跑的地方。 我们学习了很多跑动和传球的战术。 上个赛季我就认识他们中的大多数了。

"And now," the coach said as she looked around to make sure nobody was watching, "I'm going to show you our Secret Play." Oooooh! We all leaned forward. Secret plays are cool because, well, anything involving secrets is cool. Coach Hyatt began drawing lines all over the board.

“现在，”教练说，她环顾四周，确保没有人在看，“我要给你们展示我们的秘密把戏。” 哇!我们都向前倾着身子。 秘密游戏很酷，因为任何涉及秘密的东西都很酷。 凯亚特教练开始在黑板上画线。

"A.J., you're the quarterback, so you go here," she barked. "Ryan, you go here. Michael, you go here. Neil, you go here. Wyatt, you go here. Wyatt will hike the ball to A.J. A.J. will flip it to Ryan. Ryan will pass it to Michael. Michael will lateral it to Neil. Neil will hand it off to Wyatt. Wyatt will run it into the end zone for a touchdown. Got it?" "Got it!" we all shouted, even though none of us got it. Coach Hyatt's Secret Play made no sense at all, but none of us wanted to look dumb. "Okay, let's try it," said Coach Hyatt. We all got into position. "Hut-one!" I shouted. "Hut-two! HIKE!" And we all ran into each other. It was a big mess of kids in a gigantic pile. There were arms and legs flailing

“aj，你是四分卫，所以你去这里，”她吼道。 “赖安，你到这儿来。迈克尔，你到这儿来。 尼尔，你来这里。怀亚特，你过来。 怀亚特会把球传给aj a。j。会把它交给瑞恩。 瑞恩会把它传给迈克尔。 迈克尔会把这件事告诉尼尔。 尼尔会把它交给怀亚特。 怀亚特会把球带到底线区触地得分。 明白了吗?”“明白了！”我们都喊道，尽管没有一个人明白。 海亚特教练的“秘密游戏”毫无意义，但我们谁也不想出丑。 “好吧，我们试试，”凯悦教练说。 我们都就位了。“某!”我叫道。 “Hut-two !走开!”我们都碰到了对方。 那是一大堆孩子堆在一起。 有胳膊和腿在摆动

around. It looked like one of those tanks full of lobsters you see in the supermarket. Unfortunately, I was the lobster on the bottom. "Owwww, my leg!" I yelled. "Walk it off, A.J.!" Coach Hyatt barked when the last kid climbed off me. "I think my leg might be broken," I said. "Broken?" barked the coach. "When I was your age, if my leg was broken, I would go out and build a log cabin with my bare hands." What did that have to do with anything? I thought I was gonna die.

周围。它看起来就像你在超市里看到的那种装满龙虾的鱼缸。 不幸的是，我是下面的龙虾。 “哇，我的腿！”我喊道。 “走一走就好了，A.J.!”当最后一个孩子从我身上爬下来时，海亚特教练吼道。 “我想我的腿可能断了，”我说。 “坏了？”马车吼道。 “当我像你这么大的时候，如果我的腿断了，我会出去徒手盖一间小木屋。” 那有什么关系吗？ 我以为我要死了。