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Old Sun Feb 01, 2009, 02:30pm
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Originally Posted by Jurassic Referee View Post
Got a rules citation that says "taunting" is a flagrant technical foul? You may want to check out rule 10-3-7(c) and the PENALTY for it. If you issue a flagrant "T" every time you call "taunting", you're mis-interpreting the rule. To call a technical foul for "taunting" is a judgment call always. To say that the act is severe enough to justify a flagrant technical foul is a whole 'nother matter and is another judgment call.
I believe that beachbum may be confusing the application of the taunting rule with fighting. I believe that if the taunt leads to a fight, that the taunt is treated as part of the fight, and is thus penalized as a flagrant technical foul?
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