Back when Bill Musgrave was a quarterback at the University of Oregon, 27 years ago, he used to play a lot of “Joust,” the video-arcade game that featured combatants riding flying ostriches.
The offensive coordinator of the Raiders, an admitted arcade regular in those days, repeatedly would pound the button trying to flap his ostrich’s wings harder and harder.
“I once developed a big blister on my finger and it was hard to throw a football around for a couple of days,” he said.
Musgrave, 49, doesn’t play “Joust” anymore, but he’s having some familiar struggles regulating his desire to flap those wings.