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Old Tue Feb 04, 2014, 10:41am
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Originally Posted by BryanV21 View Post
My intention is to understand a rule entirely, not just accept what the right call is and move on to the next play. That could very well mean reading into things too much. However, if the end result is a better understanding of the rule, then so be it. Down the road it will make me a better official.

I'm sorry if that stubbornness rubs any of you the wrong way. It's not meant to offend, it's meant to get more out of you.

Or maybe I'm just thick. I don't know. I have a better understanding of the rule, and I'm better for it. I could have just said "okay, it's a charge". But doing so would have been wrong of me. Unless I don't care.

Again... I'm sorry if that's too much for any of you to handle. I'm here to be better. If I make some friends, then that's great. I'd love that. But the bottom line is to be better, and due to my stubbornness I am.
Fair enough, and if you truly are here to learn, more power to you. Personally, you didn't rub me wrong through stubbornness. It was the comments on this and the other thread that you personally felt the game was skewed in one direction more than you like, and that if you could find a way to interpret a rule differently that what we're told so that you can further your personal opinion of fairness - that you would do so.

I have NO PROBLEM at all with you disagreeing with the pack and trying to understand where the difference lies (and heck .. maybe convincing those who disagree with you that you might be right - it happens)... I have HUGE issue with trying to instill your personal ideas of fairness on the game in contradiction with what the rules and the Rules Interpretors say.
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