The game is afoot!

One of the great mysteries of the blogosphere is why Charles Johnson's excellent blog is named "Little Green Footballs".

The site's reader-created FAQ states:

Q. Where does the name “little green footballs” come from?

A. Charles ain’t telling…

Well, we've just had a huge break in the case, in the form of the following paragraph from a New York Sun article profiling Johnson and the prominence of his blog:

Mr. Johnson, who is 51, founded Little Green Footballs early in 2001 as an offshoot of his Web-design business. He won't disclose what those titular footballs mean, saying only that they're not a drug reference, that they have something to do with a stay in Japan, and that there were "actual little green footballs involved."

I'm putting on my pajamas and getting to the bottom of this.

Stay tuned...