Sayville NY Protest

[JamesBond]

Originally Posted by BktBallRef

Is this the Ed Hickland who frequents this board?

It is the same.

[Ed Hickland]

Originally Posted by JamesBond

It is the same.

Yes, it is. For various reasons cannot talk about it.

[kdf5]

Stuff happens, Ed. 99.9% of the people who criticize officials don't have the b**** to put on the stripes and walk out on the field. This, too, shall pass.

[Jimmie24]

Keep your head up Ed. Been there done that, it passes eventually.

[JasonTX]

I had a play similar to this early this season. My play went like this:

Team A snaps from the A-1. The ball is muffed and is in the end zone. I am the R. A scramble for the ball. As I am moving into a position to see the ball it suddenly comes "spiraling" out backwards from near the ground up to a running back who runs it out of the end zone and is down at about the A-5. We didn't get any complaints about it, but the questions that I had were:

1. Was there a player on the ground who passed the ball? If so, the ball should have been dead. Myself and both wings discussed it and neither of us had a view of the player who caused the ball to come out.

2. Was the ball batted to the running back? If so we should have a flag. My thought was that it was not because I seen the spiral, so that indicated to me that a player had to have controlled it and then passed it.

[bcl1127]

This is just one of those plays where it is split second and sometimes the brain does not react fast enough. I think that everyone who has ever put on a striped shirt and officiated a game will know that you can never get everything that happens on the field.