Gum chewer....or not?

Adam · #1 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 09:14am

1. I would never stop a player from chewing gum. What rule you gonna use for that one?
2. It's not relevant anyway. How many officials do you see wear their wedding rings?

Personally, I've tried chewing gum (a partner offered it), and can't do it. Nothing to do with choking, though. I know some guys who need it to pevent their mouth from drying out.

trying the new "centrist" snaqwells

#2 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 09:17am

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Originally Posted by Snaqwells

I know some guys who need it to pevent their mouth from drying out.

Tell them to stop blowing their whistle so much

Adam · #3 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 09:28am

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Originally Posted by Ch1town

Tell them to stop blowing their whistle so much

Or stop talking so much....

Had a partner this summer essentially coach the kids; way more than the "hands off" stuff I do; then he followed it up with "great defense" when a defender tipped the ball OOB after he was telling her to stop leaning.

BillyMac · #4 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 09:50am

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Trying the new "centrist" Snaqwells

Aristotle believed that every ethical virtue is an intermediate condition between excess and deficiency.

Adam · #5 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:01am

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Aristotle believed that every ethical virtue is an intermediate condition between excess and deficiency.

Aristotle was an idiot. I'll let you decide whether that statement reflects excess, deficiency, or virtuous mediocrity.

Back In The Saddle · #6 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:13am

If your assigner has no feeling one way or the other about chewing gum, then I guess you need to weigh the cost and benefit. The cost is the perception. If you can do it without looking like a gum chewing moron (I don't seem to be able to), then the cost is probably pretty low. What is the benefit? Some guys do it to keep their mouth from getting dry. I never noticed that it helped that much for me. I did it mostly as a way to feel more relaxed during my first season. It did work for that. So much so, in fact, that I pretty much looked like a gum chewing moron.

Adam · #7 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:15am

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Originally Posted by Back In The Saddle

If your assigner has no feeling one way or the other about chewing gum, then I guess you need to weigh the cost and benefit. The cost is the perception. If you can do it without looking like a gum chewing moron (I don't seem to be able to), then the cost is probably pretty low. What is the benefit? Some guys do it to keep their mouth from getting dry. I never noticed that it helped that much for me. I did it mostly as a way to feel more relaxed during my first season. It did work for that. So much so, in fact, that I pretty much looked like a gum chewing moron.

Well, that's what you get for blowing bubbles during timeouts.

Back In The Saddle · #8 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 03:55pm

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Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Well, that's what you get for blowing bubbles during timeouts.

It impressed the cheerleaders.

BillyMac · #9 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:22am

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Originally Posted by Snaqwells

Aristotle was an idiot. I'll let you decide whether that statement reflects excess, deficiency, or virtuous mediocrity.

Aristotle would have presented four choices for the statement: virtuous, continent, incontinent, or vicious.

Adam · #10 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:24am

Hey, I am not incontinent. Regular perhaps, but not incontinent.

mbyron · #11 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 10:56am

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Aristotle was an idiot.

Why would you say that? He was a genius who dominated western intellectual history for 1500 years.

ILMalti · #12 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 11:01am

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Why would you say that? He was a genius who dominated western intellectual history for 1500 years.

hear hear

Adam · #13 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 02:30pm

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Why would you say that? He was a genius who dominated western intellectual history for 1500 years.

Because I was being pissy. No other reason.

Anyone who can continue being the best for 1500 years has my respect. Career longevity alone puts him in the H.O.F. for that feat.

I'm still looking for the rule that says players can't chew gum.

#14 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 02:39pm

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I'm still looking for the rule that says players can't chew gum.

Asked a buddy about the rule, he says the reason we can't find it is because we aren't looking in the right place. Apparantly, the ruling can only be found in the Book of OOO, Chapter 17, Article 38 (pg 1037).

I asked how would he know that?

He said he still owns a copy from his early years of officiating

Camron Rust · #15 (**permalink**) Fri Jul 03, 2009, 03:03pm

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Originally Posted by Ch1town

Asked a buddy about the rule, he says the reason we can't find it is because we aren't looking in the right place. Apparantly, the ruling can only be found in the Book of OOO, Chapter 17, Article 38 (pg 1037).

I asked how would he know that?

He said he still owns a copy from his early years of officiating

I think it may have been a Point of Emphasis in 1925.

As for me, I chew gum for the first 3 minutes of the game. Then I stick on on the bottom of the ball and tell a dribbler that if I see gum on his hand, I know that he carried the ball!!

On a more serious note, I've tried chewing gum while working a game a time or two and it just gets in the way.