On football familiarity, or lack thereof

Several of us have now confessed to being football-challenged and nervous about being able to do a good job of describing images that just look like a jumble of people in brightly-colored uniforms. I'm in awe of people who can look at an image and somehow divine which team is "offensive" and which is "defensive" and know whether the ball is being thrown, received, or otherwise. I very much appreciate the kind efforts of my fellow classmates to help us out with useful links (shout out to Library Corner for posting those tools!), and I agree with Metadata for Breakfast that there is certainly no guarantee that we'll work with familiar subjects out in the real world, so, yes, it's good experience.

However, I couldn't help wondering if there is a class project that would present a more level playing field (ha!).  What if the project were something that was likely to be quite difficult to everyone? Would intramural ultimate frisbee images from several years ago be hard enough? What about a jai alai image collection? Or maybe we should go in the other direction and have images everyone can understand:  LOLcats.  In fact, I hereby suggest that next year's class, and all classes thereafter, get to use funny cat and dog pictures. Problem solved!