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Old Wed Feb 25, 2009, 05:45pm
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Worst officials (unofficial survey)
ESPN's Page 2 ran a "State of Sports" survey, where fans answered 50 multiple choice questions about their sports preferences, etc. Obviously an unscientific survey, but here's one of the questions:

40) Which sport do you think has the worst officiating?

44.7% NBA
24.5% NFL
12.5% College basketball
10.8% College football
4.9% Major League Baseball
2.7% NHL
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Old Wed Feb 25, 2009, 05:47pm
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Let's run our own survey.

Which sport has the worst fans?
A. Basketball
B. Basketball
C. Basketball
D. Basketball
E. All of the above
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Old Wed Feb 25, 2009, 05:48pm
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Which sport has the least knowledgeable but think they know everything fans when it comes to rules?

See Mark's post for options.
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Old Wed Feb 25, 2009, 06:03pm
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I think I read somewhere that polls are a waste of bandwidth.

Thanks for confirming.
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 08:48am
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Which sport has the least knowledgeable but think they know everything fans when it comes to rules?

See Mark's post for options.
Not only "fans" but the announcers both radio and TV don't understand the rules either and they are telling their listeners and viewers that we are wrong on a call......
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 09:04am
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the actual ratings
Not that a magazine or sports show would ever do it
but it would be interesting to compare the fans perceptions to
the evaluations of the officials - and publish that information.

It would be interesting to see - I think that people would be surprised at how little they actually know - well no they wouldn't believe the published data.
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Old Wed Feb 25, 2009, 06:23pm
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Let's run our own survey.

Which sport has the worst fans?
A. Basketball
B. Basketball
C. Basketball
D. Basketball
E. All of the above
Actually, I think it's soccer. People leave soccer games in ambulances.
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Just to be fair, perhaps I should change "worst" to "least knowledgeable about rules" and change "fans" to "coaches"?
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 09:08am
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Let's run our own survey.

Which sport has the worst fans?
A. Basketball
B. Basketball
C. Basketball
D. Basketball
E. All of the above

I think there should be another choice F.) A and D
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I had a blow out game last night where both coaches knew it was not going to be all that competative. They were playing their benches alot and as suspected the score was lobsided right off. Fans could not understand and kept looking for every single ticky tack call. All along I was thinking what would Mark do here!

At half I told each coach I was going to have some fun and show the "parents" what they were doing was wrong. The ball was inbounded to start the half and I went and sat in the stands next to the loudest person, Ohh yea I knew who it was. One parent who knew me from previous games asked what I was doing.

My reply "Well it is apparent from the first half that this is the best seat in the gym to make every single call correctly so I thought I may as well just join in." The Dad looks over, hangs his head and just says rather embarrassed, "Point Taken, I'm Sorry."

Never heard a word for the rest of the game.
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ESPN's Page 2 ran a "State of Sports" survey, where fans answered 50 multiple choice questions about their sports preferences, etc. Obviously an unscientific survey, but here's one of the questions:

40) Which sport do you think has the worst officiating?

44.7% NBA
24.5% NFL
12.5% College basketball
10.8% College football
4.9% Major League Baseball
2.7% NHL
Hey - croquet didn't even make the survey!
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Old Wed Feb 25, 2009, 07:45pm
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Hey - croquet didn't even make the survey!
Neither did bocce! Whoo hoo!
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I think the darts guy gets his calls 100% correct.

You never hear him say "one hundred and twenty" when it really was "one hundred and eighty".
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Is there a question about which sport has the least knowledgeble telecasters?
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Old Thu Feb 26, 2009, 08:35am
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Is there a question about which sport has the least knowledgeble telecasters?
That doesn't need a poll. We've verified over and over again that it's clearly undeniably obvious that college basketball wins this title!
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