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Originally Posted by Mark T. DeNucci, Sr.
I am really tired of hearing about fairness.
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Tired of hearing about fairness? Obviously, we are supposed to administer the rules, even we think they're not fair; but shouldn't we be working to make the rules fair to both teams?
How is basic fairness something to be disregarded? Oh, jeez, do we have to talk about fairness
again?!?! Let's just give the home team 20 points to start the game. No it's not fair to the visitors, but we'll just consider it part of the home field advantage. If we're not concerned about fairness, why are we officiating in the first place?
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A technical foul is a major infraction of the rules. For over 100 years the final part of the TF penalty was a free throw awarded to the team that shot the TF free throws.
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Are you saying that the penalty for a technical foul was 3 shots? They would shoot 2 for the technical and then shoot one more for committing a foul? I've never heard of that. That doesn't mean it's not true, but if that was the rule for 100 years, I would think that I would have heard about it.
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Today the rules are more complex than they were forty or fifty years ago because of this ill-conceived notion that the rules must be fair.
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The rules are obviously more complex, but I'm not sure it's because simply because somebody arbitrarily said, let's make them more fair. The game itself is a lot more complicated that it was 30 or 50 or 100 years ago. The rules reflect that.
I just don't get where this semi-rant about fairness is coming from. If we don't want to hear about fairness, then we should be officiating pro wrestling.