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Old Thu Oct 06, 2011, 08:27am
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Originally Posted by zm1283 View Post
At least two people who have replied said it was not his area.
They said it wasn't in his AREA (geographically, so to speak), but no one has said it was not part of his responsibility, and in fact you've been told many many times that it is.

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Why use that crutch? We would never actually say this in baseball or basketball when working 2-man, so why can it be used in football?
A fair point in a way... but most of us are of the opinion that with the game's evolution, games at the level that you describe NEED 5 officials, not 4. So the more apt analogy would be comparing to working a baseball or softball game with ONE umpire... i.e. not enough. Coach - she left early from first!!!. Umpire - coach, if you guys want that watched closely, you should pay for a 2nd umpire.
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