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I am looking to put a cable tv show together on football officiating. What I am looking for is some ideas. It is to difficult to just cover a whole rule and be meaningful and entertaining. So, I was thinking of the misconceptions of High School Football rules. Ones you think fans do not understand or always misinterpret. I know we may have done links like this before but I need to see them again. |
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In particular, go for rules that announcers typically screw up, or rules that are notably different from NFL to NCAA to NFHS. I'd go with:
I'm curious, how long a show will this be? I'm presuming it'll be on a public access station, which means no (or at least few) commercials. Half an hour actually becomes a fairly long time to fill. You'll definitely want a bunch of film clips. The rights to any NFL or NCAA game are going to be very tightly controlled - you *might* get permission, but I'm guessing not (although I've never tried) - so hopefully you have or can get ahold of a decently sized library of H.S. tapes. If the cable thing doesn't work out, you could always produce the segments yourself and publish them as podcasts, which are currently The Next Big Thing. Good luck! |
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Axtually it might not be that difficult to get permission to use NFL films. They have a youth/H.S. football program within the NFL. I'd try getting this bunch to help out.
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Tie goes to the runner.
Hands are part of the bat. (Hey ... any chance to dispel these myths has to be taken, right?)
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3-second call during a shot. |
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You could try to get in touch with USA Football. They might help you with getting some video material.
www.usafootball.com |
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Is it a foul or a penalty?
Most people outside of our officiating community do not know the diference between a penalty and a foul.
Any penalty (distance) may be refused. There has to be contact to be pass interference. It has to be clipping, he hit him in the back. Coach, the call is a 'block in the back' (above the waist) - 10 yds, not a clip.
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I think maybe you should include informatiuon about just how much time and effort we put into officiating. I really don't think the fans at any level understand the amount of effort we put against being good/better officials. A tribute of sorts to officials might be helpful.
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Very intersting thought Rich! I do agree with it for most of us but somebody out there will always kill that theory... |
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Maybe you should take a more human approach. Think of it as "Spinal Tap" for officials. Focus on use/abuse of Vitamin K & E for supehuman vision. Or maybe explore the common practice of officials picking a team (usually the home team) that they want to win: and, then doing everything possible to screw the other team. And finally, you could do an expose' of the dark side of officiating.....ref groupies (Title it : Women Love a Man in Uniform- Even One Made Out of Polyester).
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