Posted on 02/09/2021 12:17:34 PM PST by servo1969
TAMPA, FL—Sarah Thomas, the first female referee to officiate in a Super Bowl, threw a flag on a play in the second quarter but refused to say what was wrong.
"Penalty, on the offense -- you know what, never mind. It's fine," she said after throwing a flag on the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
"Wait -- what'd I do wrong?" asked Tom Brady indignantly.
"Nothing. I said it was fine," she said, folding her arms.
"It doesn't seem like it's fine. You threw a flag!" Brady responded.
She shrugged and turned away. "No, it's totally fine. Go and play football with your friends. It's fine."
Play proceeded without any consequences, though she glared bitterly at Brady throughout the next few plays.
Meanwhile, the male referees displayed their toxic masculinity by awarding extra yards for players who exhibited unnecessary roughness and also giving them a manly chest bump and a "right on, bro."
Oh! One more:
“It’s not what you said, it’s the way you said it!”
I saw that and said to myself "will they have the guts to throw a challenge flag on the first female ref?" Well, the Bucs were already well ahead, it was late in the game. I imagine Bruce Arians was willing to let it slide although perhaps the NFL signaled to him that he'd lose the challenge if he tried it.
True story. When Nikita Kruschev was the leader of Russia, his American hosts took him to see an AFL game between the Raiders and Chargers. After the game ended, reporters tried to ask Kruschev what he thought of the game.
His response (through an interpreter): “All fall down. All get back up. All fall down again.”
fake but accurate
Quotas = Unity
“If you really cared, you’d know what you did wrong.”
OTOH, if memory of the game serves me correct, she may have been the one who threw a penalty flag against someone in the Chiefs' secondary when the ball sailed over the receiver's head and should've been deemed uncatchable.
“If you don’t know what you did wrong, I’m sure as heck not gonna tell you!”
Oh, THAT is a keeper!
“Stop asking about it, or I’ll penalize you 15 yards for invading my space!”
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