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JugglingReferee · #16 (**permalink**) Fri Feb 24, 2006, 02:12pm

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Originally posted by rockyroad

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Originally posted by JugglingReferee

The extent of the injury is not known at the time of deciding to blow it dead or not. You can't say that you should have blown it dead immediately because she ended up with a concussion.

While the extent of the injury might not be known, in order to end up with a concussion something pretty serious must have happened...if an 8th grade girl goes down and her head slams into the floor and she lays there - stop the game for crying out loud. Err on the side of caution at that level...

Except that it was admitted that the official didn't see the player go down. Why limit to 8th grade girls? If anybody goes down and their head slams on the floor and they just lay there - stop the game.

Please tell me though, what happened that is "pretty serious"? Oh that's right - nobody with authority to legally stop the game knows, so they let the play go. If as you say, something serious did happen, and the officials did in fact see it, I trust my brethren to make the correct decision to stop the game.

Now, it is a different story with different variables, such a loud and repetitive screams, whimpering (sp?), body shakes, a loud noise (thump), etc.

Snake is right - no free pass.