Help: Disagreement on numbering exception

[Suudy]

Originally Posted by ljudge

Thanks for the prompt replies. You've all given me the "ammo" I needed for my argument. I was confident I was correct on this on Saturday and wasn't about to back down. Some people simply don't want to listen.

This is always delicate with officials who have their mind made up. I worked umpire a couple of seasons, and I had a wing guy who swore that a player could _never_ contact the snapper. I never flagged it because in almost every situation, the snapper would come up immediately and block. It got to the point where the wing guy was so sure of himself, he started throwing a flag from the sidelines on tries for roughing the snapper.

It wasn't until my WH handed him a photocopied section of the rule book with the appropriate section highlighted and a stern "don't do that again" before he agreed he was wrong--despite my own efforts to show the rule book to the guy and to respectfully demonstrate my own position. I hope your guy is considerably more open-minded and willing to learn.