Welpe, you must have been bored this afternoon because that clown didn't deserve that much of your time. :)

You're right...slow day. Besides when I get writing on a subject, its hard to stop sometimes. ;)

Arguing with a fool is always a losing proposition, even when you do it on a point by point basis. If every time a bet doesn't work out the way the bettor wanted, we are going to run towards some silly conspiracy theory, we're going to be spending a lot of time on losing bettor's whining.

What continues to amaze me is that some people still think that this whole "instant replay" idea is going to reach perfection. The gamblers who pissed and moaned because they bet on losing choices before instant replay, are still whining and complaining and no matter what technology does to bring decisions down to a finer and finer point, they will continue to complain when their hunches don't pan out.

The real fools, in this process, are the rest of us who bother to listen to this garbage. Bettors bet because they have convinced themselves they are smarter than everyone else and can handicap anything to a point where they think they know, better than anyone else, how things will turn out.

The smart bettors know that that there are always unanticipated consequnces lurking and factor that into the risk-reward ratio and take results that prove them wrong in stride. The un-smart (didn't want to say stupid) bettors fail to anticipate anything other than ego and are ill prepared to accept that they "chose wrong". If they can't deal with picking wrong, they should stop picking rather than waste everybody's time looking for fantasy conspiracies.

People who bet can't comprehend how other people can be totally impartial, and trying to explain it to them is an absolute waste of time, why bother.

You make a good point, Al. Perhaps part of me was hoping I could reach a fellow official.

Chalk all of this up to yet another reason I don't gamble.

First off I would like to state that you don't have a clue as to what you are talking about. I thought you were a sports official but once again you have proven yourself to be an average fanboy idiot.

Is that important? Is that less than normal? More than normal?

So one team has more fouls at the end of the game and that means the officials are cheating; nice conclusion Pete.

What happens when you are working a baseball game and one pitcher strikes out 18 batters and the other team's pitcher only strikes out 3? I guess that means you were cheating to help that guy get all those strikeouts.

An incomplete forward pass ends the down. So there could have been time left on the clock when the down should have ended.

See what I wrote above. There may have been time left on the clock. You don't know what you are talking about.

Secondly, just because the clock runs out does not mean everything doesn't matter. I bet you would be on here complaining if the play was not reviewed. You would be here saying that the NFL should have review the play to look for an IFP and the only reason they did not was because they were trying to change the outcome of the game. Either way you would be complaining; stop looking for reasons to complain.

See above. There may have been time on the clock. Also the officials must get the play right in the end. If the ball was dead when the Steelers "scored" then they should not be awarded the score.

Complaining about the number of fouls each team has committed is a flimsy argument. I'm guessing you never officiaited basketball.

What happened in the NBA? A NBA official gave insider information to gamblers. Nothing has ever come out saying that he ever got any calls wrong during a game. You are accusing 7 on field NFL officials as well as the replay official of cheating to affect the outcome of the game, something which never happened in the NBA.

Once again, you don't know what you are talking about. There was more than one reason why the replay official had to stop the game. There was an IFP and the officials later conferred and got it wrong when they were figuring out which pass hit the ground.

No, you're an uninformed fanboy. Obviously going by what you wrote you do not understand what you are talking about, all the way from football rules to what NBA official Tim D. went to jail for.

NFL Rule: Rule 4, Section 3, Article 11- If at the end of any period, time expires while the ball is in play, time is not called until the down ends. (c) If there is a foul by the offense, there shall be no extension of the period. If the foul occurs on the last play of the half, no score made by the offense is counted.

Whoa Pete, that made me bad. No offense, but I don't think I'd like to work with you if that's how you roll.

According to your logic, you'd think I was taking a bribe from a coach because he was rich, and his team struck out 15 batters while the other one struck out just 1. And, when there was a close play at the plate, I had his runner safe. And when we had **** hit the fan on a wierd play, and we kicked it, it went for his team.

Sometimes, these things just happen.

I, frankly, am not going to throw that crew under the bus. I don't do football, but I consider them my brother official.

As for Donaghy, that punk can rot in jail as far as I'm concerned, a true disgrace to the profession.

And frankly, so are you right now Pete - with absolutely no substantiated evidence you've tried to implicate a brother official. I'm not okay with that. At all.

Sorry to be harsh, I'm not trying to be Internet tough guy here. Its just an extremely strong position.

Football guys, sorry this now general officiating conversation has spilled onto your side of things. I like lurking over here... even though half the time I have NO idea what you're talking about :p

The smart bettors know that the bookmakers set the line in order to bring in approximately equal amounts of money on either side of any game. No matter how the game ends, bookies use the losers' money to pay off the winners. Bookies make their money on the cut, not the outcome, so they don't care who wins or how.

Only losers care how.

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Tuss you are using the wrong logic.

Suppose you saw a Fellow Official calling pitches balls that were "right down Broadway" time after time for ONE team then had a different strike zone altogether for another.

It has happened and in our kneck of the woods these types of umpires were labeled "homers"


No ones's throwing anyone "under the bus" but pointing out facts that even the NFL has not explained. I was merely pointing out that in lite of Donaghy the idea of corruption exists.



Again I am NOT implicating anyone but presenting "another side" of events. If it happened in the NBA why not football where there is millions of dollars bet.

Sorry I hit a nerve but if a major league baseball umpire called pitches right down Broadway Balls for one team and a completely different zone for the other the same analogy would be drawn.

Pete Booth

So far the only example of a call which was wrong which you have cited was "The pass interference call on the Steelers in the first / second quarter was simply a joke"

Answer this question off the top of your head right now....what constitutes pass interference in the NFL?

I doubt you know what you are talking about when it comes to NFL rules and how they are enforced on the field. You're no different than some whining fanboy complaining about all the bad calls in the game last weekend.

LDUB, we're wasting our time. I'm sorry I even bothered responding.

Exactly, Batman. What people don't understand about how it really works. If you've "balanced your book," who wins and how is immaterial.

perfect!

Saw Pereira on NFL Network Wednesday. Now it makes a little more sense to me.

He said they're going to make sure the referee takes another official with him to the review tent and that they fill out a little form to keep the bookkeeping straight.

What's interesting with this is that MP said that some R's already took a fellow official to the hood with them. As far as I can recall, this is the first bookkeeping mistake in ~ 9 years.