Oh, by the way, the coin-flipping is very important in soccer these days. It symbolizes fair play. Since coin-flipping is a 50-50 chance it is a good gesture, giving a semblance of fairness.
I said gesture, giving a semblance because it is now known that many a few matches here and in Europe have been fixed (some referees really run amok, you know, after tossing up the coin and blowing the first whistle).
However, our immediate concern is language and in language, figuratively speaking any decision made by flipping the coin is a decision left to luck.
Whether it remains correct to call that a decision is another matter, of course.
It is still a decision, of sorts, I think. What do you think? Care to flip a coin?
Anyways, here are media examples for you to see more coin-flipping in action:
1. Tommy Van Scoy was the owner of a chain of diamond jewelry stores along in New England and the Mid-Atlantic States. He was also known for his odd radio commercials for his jewelry stores. He was also a championship boxer and an amateur pilot.
Van Scoy was born March 22, 1920, in Bear Creek, Pennsylvania. His mother died when he was 8 years old. In the 1930s his father a, former steelworker, had a difficult time finding work during the Great Depression. Young Van Scoy graduated from Coughlin High School and made money as a newspaper boy and as a shoeshiner. Van Scoy was a Golden Gloves boxer. In 1942 he joined the Army, where the flip of a coin ignited a new interest.
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