Similar to the non-call on targeting in last night's Texas-Baylor game. If you want to eliminate these hits from the game, you've got to apply the rules in this area without favor or exception.
Watching with one eye and doing other things, are they being jobbed or are they legit penalties.
It isn't. The origin is unknown, but it's assumed to be related to the expression the whole ball of wax, which originated in the same region (the midwest).
One of the more believable is that it came from WWI and refers to the length of British machine gun ammo belts.
It's first written use was in Indiana at the dawn of the 20th century. So it couldn't be from WWI. In Kentucky the similar phrase the whole ball of wax traces to the late 19th century, so it's assumed they're related. But the simple truth is that no one really knows how someone came to replace the ball of wax with nine yards.
