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Originally Posted by a4caster
(and I know this will tick some of you off) the stripes come off, and I help the kid.
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Doing a semi-final football games about 4 years ago. The favourite is losing and they're not happy about it. Winning team is on offense with about a 1 minute to go and slow playing the game, but nothing illegal. Good coaching actually.
Then a defender ends up tackling late, and then a winning team player responds. Of course this all happens about 10 yards in front of me. I close in to diffuse somewhat and throw the flag for DQ on the losing team player's and UR on a different winning team's player, who was knocked down.
I can see the look in the defender's eyes that he's going to do something bad. I totally could have tackled him as he ran back towards the opponent (winning team player) who was still on the ground. I did nothing, as per our officiating policy. What does the losing player do? He jumps on the defenseless opponent and drives his foot (spikes on his shoes) into the guy's throat.
It took me a whole year to resolve if I saw that act again would I intervene.