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Originally posted by ChuckElias
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Originally posted by NICK
Dutch ref, pointing with the index finger is personal, intimidating, confrontational
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Nick, I think I would disagree with that. Why is it confrontational? It's the way almost everybody does in real life. I can't imagine how anyone could be intimidated by me pointing with one finger. (Dan can't imagine anyone being intimidated by me, period.  )
Why do you make that statement? I'm just trying to understand.
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Chuck,when the NFHS first put in "bird dogging",they laid out the hand signal as palm down,pointing at the player's waist,etc. They also used the rationale,if I remember correctly,that they didn't want us pointing one finger right at someone for just about the same reasons that Nick listed above,except for maybe "intimidating".Also,if I remember right,"bird dogging" was put in as a direct result of the dumb rule that they had just put in that it was mandatory that a player raised his/her hand when they committed a foul.The "bird-dog" was used so that a player couldn't say that they didn't know that they were the one that had committed the foul.