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To: RedBloodedAmerican

It's a lot like basketball where the refs blow their whistles for every little touch of air that looks like some incidental contact may have occured. There should be rules that forbid the refs from making calls that are the result of incidental contact of a play and let them play!


13 posted on 02/06/2006 6:58:34 AM PST by AZRepublican ("The degree in which a measure is necessary can never be a test of the legal right to adopt it.")
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To: AZRepublican

Incidental contact is NEVER called. If its incidental, it isn't a foul. Now, some calls might be made that were based on what YOU thought was incidental contact (and the officials ruled differently), but to get a better idea of your qualifications and quality of opinion, how many years have you officiated basketball?

Its hilarious reading a thread where supposedly smart people don't have a freakin' clue. There's no one on here that knows NFL rules well enough to give a truly constructive comment on the quality of the officiating. There may be a few plays that were missed, but if there were, the NFL will be on top of it. Most of the complaint is likely about calls that weren't missed. For example, some guy on another board was complaining about the holding call on Seattle that wiped out the pass play down well inside the 5. The problem is, the call was CORRECT! I saw the holding, and having actually officiated football, I think I can intelligently comment. It was a great call, but unfortunately, the angle ABC replayed it, it didn't show, and John Madden said, "I don't see holding there."

I didn't see it on the replay either, but I did see it on the play and wondered out loud if the R was going to call it. He did.


210 posted on 02/06/2006 9:11:38 AM PST by 1L
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