Thread: Overrule?
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Old Wed Aug 25, 2004, 04:01pm
PS2Man PS2Man is offline
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Wink I am only going to address your football comment.

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Originally posted by WindyCityBlue

"I don't need to pick up a pile of sh*t and take a bite to know it will taste bad. I don't need to be a police officer to know that what they did to Rodney King was an exhibition in poor judgement. I do not need to be a football official to know that a guy signalled completion on a ball that is on the ground. Apparently you don't understand the meaning of poor judgement, since you just opend a closed wound."
You talked about being a Police officer. In order to become a Police officer you have to go thru a great deal of training and testing in order to get into that profession. I do not know just walk off the street and become a police officer overnight. I have some very close friends that are officers and they had to go thru months of training and testing before they could even get a job. I think if you decided become a football officials you at least know how to officiate a sport. The problem is that you would still go thru a few years of learning the game and the nuances to become a good official in the sport of football. I had to retrain myself when I added another sport as well. What I would see on TV would not apply to the rules and mechanics I that are in the officiating manuals and NCAA and NF Rules.

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