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NFL is Going to Bizarre Lengths to Defend Official Sarah Thomas' Fumble Recovery Call in Browns Game
thebiglead ^
| October 3, 2016
| Jason Lisk
Posted on 10/04/2016 11:42:21 AM PDT by C19fan
The Cleveland Browns got screwed by a fumble call, when the ball was already in the possession of Duke Johnson and he stood up, while players fought for something else in a pile. To most rational people who can watch something with their own eyes, that’s what happened.
However, rather than just acknowledge the mistake and move on (something that has happened many times in the past), the NFL is bizarrely digging its heels in on this one.
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TOPICS: Society; Sports
KEYWORDS: feminism; nfl
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To: DIRTYSECRET
But then she’s not bad looking. If she were just another double-wide her shortcomings would be disqualifying.
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:01:51 PM PDT
by
DIRTYSECRET
(urope. Why do they put up with this.)
To: treetopsandroofs
Hmm, she’s allegedly married to a guy, so it could just be ultra-PC, but the NFL is all about politics all the time these days, so who knows?
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:02:56 PM PDT
by
treetopsandroofs
(Had FDR been GOP, there would have been no World Wars, just "The Great War" and "Roosevelt's Wars".)
To: Psalm 73
Or a blind ref? Apparently they got a twofer
To: Dilbert San Diego
The “Calvin Johnson” rule?
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:07:45 PM PDT
by
SJSAMPLE
To: Psalm 73
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:10:31 PM PDT
by
AU72
To: treetopsandroofs
I don’t think any refs played pro anything
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:13:56 PM PDT
by
DariusBane
(Liberty and Risk. Flip sides of the same coin. So how much risk will YOU accept? Vive Deo et Vives)
To: Dilbert San Diego
Browns got screwed by the officials at a home game a few years back.
Browns fans responded by throwing bottles and other debris on the field.
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:17:19 PM PDT
by
BenLurkin
(The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
To: RegulatorCountry
as usual,, the cover-up is worse than the crime with these people...
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:28:16 PM PDT
by
ßuddaßudd
(>> F U B O << "What the hell kind of country is this if I can only hate a man if he's white?")
To: Psalm 73
They need a female, Muslim, ref... in a Burka...
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:29:07 PM PDT
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap")
To: C19fan
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:34:16 PM PDT
by
Pikachu_Dad
("the media are selling you a line of soap")
To: Buckeye McFrog
Yeah but, she's a GIRL! And thus held to a completely unfair standard! So we need to lower the standards, and hold her to a completely DIFFERENT set of unfair standards. So that the entire process remains fair.
Makes sense, right? (/s)
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:40:02 PM PDT
by
wbill
To: DIRTYSECRET
The city of San Francisco promoted a woman to chief after only 14 years on the job. Is she the one whose hat kept slipping off because her head was too small?
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:43:15 PM PDT
by
luvbach1
(We are finished. It will just take a while before everyone realizes it.)
To: C19fan
Here's the video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bcXncK_zy4g. What's interesting is that the player with the ball doesn't make much of a protest at all. You'd think he would be up in arms with the ref saying, "Yo! I've got the ball!" Didn't happen... Curious...
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:47:46 PM PDT
by
pgyanke
(Republicans get in trouble when not living up to their principles. Democrats... when they do.)
To: luvbach1
Are there any white male chief’s anymore?
To: Dilbert San Diego
If she made a bad call, NFL should admit it.
What does the sex of the referee have to do with whether the call was good or not?? This doesn’t make any sense.
Actually, in a way it does. It pretty clear what happened. The line judge came in, looking for the ball, and didn't see that Johnson had left the pile with it. She simply noticed that the Browns player, who appeared to be fighting for the ball, did not have it. So, she ASSUMED that the Washington player must have the ball. So, she called it.
She screwed up by calling it, without actually seeing the ball - she couldn't have, because it wasn't there. She should have done what other line judges would do, get in, and grab a player, and start separating them, to find the ball.
Did she make the call, without seeing the ball, because 1) honest mistake, she thought she saw it, 2) she did not feel comfortable getting physical in the pile?, or 3) was it female instinct to break up a 'fight' as quickly as possible?
Whatever it was, it WAS a mistake.
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posted on
10/04/2016 12:58:29 PM PDT
by
MMaschin
(The difference between strategy and tactics!)
To: WENDLE
This Woman agrees that women do not belong there.
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posted on
10/04/2016 1:00:56 PM PDT
by
Bigg Red
(Go away, Satan! -- Fr.Jacques Hamel (R.I.P., martyr))
To: Psalm 73
Or a blind ref?
Baseball cornered the market on all those candidates.
To: wbill
Yeah but, she's a GIRL! And thus held to a completely unfair standard! So we need to lower the standards, and hold her to a completely DIFFERENT set of unfair standards. So that the entire process remains fair
You think it's bad with a female referee, wait till you have a female President.
To: C19fan
The NFL is dead to me....
Has been for years.....
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posted on
10/04/2016 1:41:02 PM PDT
by
Osage Orange
(PNA....my butt)
To: Buckeye McFrog
LOL, I see what you did there....
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posted on
10/04/2016 1:55:14 PM PDT
by
wbill
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