I was reading the recent issue of Referee magazine (September 2003)and noted an article titled: Bayou Pols to Refs: 'Get Better'
Prompted by officiating errors in last season's Giants 49ers game, State Representative Pete Schneider (who I am going to label as DORK right now), took it upon himself to initiate legislation for sport official accountability.
The legislation passed without objection - either the entire Legislature knew the DORK was a dork and just passed it so he would shut-up... or maybe they are all dorks.
From the magazine: "His goal was to make sports officials more accountable for mistakes they make during games, and to publicly acknowledge ...errors in a timely manner in order to restore and maintain public confidence in the games."
"the NCAA, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, and NASO, and other professional sports association should enforce or strengthen existing rules or develop new rules for the recurrent training of referees, umpires, judges, linemen, and other sports officials under their jurisdiciton and for the retraining, censuring or dismissing of referees, umpires, judges, linemen and other sports officials who have a substandard record of making accurate calls during a contest."
It has always been a great concern of mine as to how we can elect such obviously socially, intellectually incompetent and inept people to public offices; Louisiana has got me seriously concerned now.
What would make Louisiana think they can legislate NATIONAL organizations? Amazing!
I tell you what, the leftist media, ignorant uneducated sports commentators, and the instant replay has made bonafide sports officials of every idiotic critic in the civilized world. Grab the channel changer, Earl, and bowl of them there chips cuz this is gonna be good - weez gonna censure us some officials.
OBVIOUSLY THIS IS JUST MY HUMBLE OPINION. Perhaps I am really that bad and the couch potatoes of the world are truly great officials.... but I doubt it.
Perhaps national sports such as the Super Bowl (or college sports, etc.) should no longer be held in Louisiana?
Who else has comments about this "issue."
What changes are you seeing down there in the great State of Louisiana? Are y'all gettin' a new educatin' program? Some fish-e-atin skoolin'? Anybody censured or dismissed yet? (Sorry, just funning with the language, no offense meant to the general population)
[Edited by DownTownTonyBrown on Aug 28th, 2003 at 11:45 AM]