Good Friday to you Steelers fans.
If you know hockey, and I’m sure many of you do, then you know when a player receives a penalty he heads to the penalty box. Although I prefer “sin bin” but that’s another story. This leaves his team ‘shorthanded.’ In other words, they now have to play four skaters and a goalie versus their opponent who has five skaters and a goalie. This doesn’t happen in football. Teams don’t play 11 vs 10 or anything like that. What ‘shorthanded’ refers to in the football sense is not having your usual amount of players.