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Originally Posted by bainsey
I still didn't think this was bad enough (it was an unintentional tangling of feet), but just because you get wrongfully pummelled does not earn you a freebie. A yellow is a yellow.
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That was my thought too.
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Originally Posted by bainsey
I don't think it's that black and white.
This interview was obviously well after game day, and it doesn't hurt for the public to see officials as people, as opposed to unfamilar foes in stripes shirts. Besides, if this gentleman's assigner was okay with the interview, then we should be, too.
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My concern would primarily be whether I was going to end up being sued. These kinds of situations usually end up with practically everyone present being sued and I wouldn't want to end up saying something dumb on tape that I would have to defend later. Also, the original dateline on the article is the 27th and the game was on the 26th.
Also, I'm not so sure it was well after game day. The referee is still in the same color as the game in question and I wonder if the TV crew would really have tracked down and interviewed the referee at another game some days later.