Where does the term "Blue 42" come from?

Question

In reference to football.

Answer 1

Blue 42 is just a made up audible. The quarterback uses an audible like this when he is at the line of scrimmage and wants to change the play because he doesn't think his current play will work against what he thinks the defense is doing. The audible can be anything that is a combo of code words and numbers that the offense knows. Sometimes, a quarterback uses a fake audible (a dummy) to fool the defense. Blue 42 is made up (well, actually some team might use something like it) and is commonly known probably because it is realistic and easy to remember. An example of a real audible would be "Black 49 Razor" an audible used occasionally by guys like Joe Montana and one or two other great quarterbacks (I believe the other was Brett Favre, but it might have been Troy Aikman or John Elway).

Answer 2

Blue 42 Origin

Answer 3

Generally blue 42 is an audible the color tends to be a hot or cold color tells weather the audible is real or fake. The number denotes the play. In high school red 42 (blue 42 was a fake audible) it was an audible for the 4 back (tailback) through the 2 hole (between the tackle and guard on the right side.

Answer 4

It's the cadence the QB says @ the line of scrimmage before the ball is snapped.
I doubt if "blue 42" has ever been used...well maybe in the movie Replacements, with Keanu Reeves.

Answer 5

Im a football player.
blue 42 sounds like a cadence
(example: down, set, hike...or blue 42, blue 42, set, hike)


My playbook calls for us to memorize different cadences so the Quarterback can tell us information and change our position on the field and maybe even what we do.

for example: we normally snap on down, set, hike...but if he sees something in the defense that he knows can hurt out offense he can call an audible (change the play)...when he does this he screams a word, which makes no sense to other players except our team...so if he says "red" that means change the play. then he can say "14" and 14 stands for the play.

if he says "green" it means [don't go when i say "hike" go on the second "hike"]...these are examples, each team is different and not all do colors and numbers....some people say adjectives and numbers like..."big 120"

Answer 6

usually whenever QB's say something like this they are calling an "audible" which means changing the play in some way. They usually change the play based on what they see when they get to the line of scrimmage. "Blue 42" is just random. It could be anything, involving both numbers, letters, and words. So this means that it is random and insignificant, it has no traceable origin and therefore no real meaning.

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Where does the term "Blue 42" come from?
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