WTF is 110%.

Few sports cliches bother me as much as giving 110%. I wasted four years of my life getting a Mathematics degree in order to properly dissect the retardedness that is giving 110%. Lets say a player like Brian Russell of the Seattle Seahawks says he gave 110% effort in the last game of the season against the Cardinals (naturally a Seahawks loss). That would mean his effort was at 110% or 1.1E, where E represents the maximum possible effort that this grit machine can give. Oh my fucking god look at that E < 1.1E, but E = the maximum effort possible. We found a motherfucking contradiction in one second, I am glad that my amazingly complex math skills allowed me to analysize that so quickly. Guess what Brian when you were giving 110% you were actually giving something less then 100%, my guess is somewhere around 85% because you are physically unathletic and thus must try much harder in order to achieve much lesser on-field results. Contrast that to an athletically gifted safety who probably cruises at about 50% effort to achieve greater on-field results.

This question raises an even greater question of what percentage effort we are all working at any given time. I know I never go above 20% of my maximum effort as there are many blogs that need to be read and commented on, for me 110% = 22%.