Good Block or penalty?

[bigjohn]

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

The funny part is you did not even understand the question.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

The funny part is you did not even understand the question.

Peace

There's a reason why it's called the "comic book."

[bigjohn]

I understand completely, like simplified means it doesn't really matter. S&I is an interpretation just like the casebook is as far as I am concerned.

From the NFHS website:
RULES SIMPLIFIED AND ILLUSTRATED for basketball and football are published annually. These books make use of cartoons and diagrams to clearly explain situations which might otherwise be difficult to comprehend.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

I understand completely, like simplified means it doesn't really matter. S&I is an interpretation just like the casebook is as far as I am concerned.

From the NFHS website:
RULES SIMPLIFIED AND ILLUSTRATED for basketball and football are published annually. These books make use of cartoons and diagrams to clearly explain situations which might otherwise be difficult to comprehend.

You missed the point. The information out of the S&I book is meant to help simplify the written rules and give interpretations that make it easier to understand what is supposed to happen. You are the only person that can take a simple illustration and turn it into a big debate as to what it says over the rulebook. I do not think I have ever heard anyone have a debate this complicated over what the book says. And you have single handily made everything in this book trump all other books based on language alone which is not the purpose of this book. And you only focus on the wording and the actual descriptions that the book "illustrates." And you have done this on two websites where no one seems to agree with you in principle. I guess you are just a genius and the rest of us are dumber than a box of rocks. How do we ever do what we do without your wonderful leadership?

Peace

[bigjohn]

Now you get it!

LOL!!!!!!!



I am pretty sure the Football Handbook has 3 pages on this and most of what is written there supports what I have posted.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

Now you get it!

LOL!!!!!!!



I am pretty sure the Football Handbook has 3 pages on this and most of what is written there supports what I have posted.

You keep trying to cherry pick what fits the argument of the time. It is common (before the NF game NASO the Guidebook and S&I the publishing rights) that these books have information that sometimes contradicts each other or muddies the waters. This is very common in all sports to have these wording issues. Most of the time we just point out the problem and move back to the rulebook or casebook. The NF hardly ever goes back and changes the S&I books and even is slow sometimes to change the casebook when the wording does not make sense. But you hold on to a couple of passages outside of the rulebook and you feel everyone is wrong on this topic. It makes me wonder seriously about you when you constantly do this. This is not the first issue you have done this. Again you have every right to feel the way you do, but nothing is going to change because you make this argument. The calls are still going to be made with what an official sees and if you want more calls, add more officials to the game so officials are not looking at such a broad area. Then these blocks could be seen. But it is not going to happen by complaining here or showing videos from games you had nothing to do with that anyone Tom, Dick and Harry posted on YouTube.

Peace

[bigjohn]

You guys are tho ones have told me a dozen times, we don't call games by the rules book but have lots of interpretations and memos and such to base the way things are called.
What a crock.

Point of emphasis and strict enforcement and all that. Lip service!

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

I am pretty sure the Football Handbook has 3 pages on this and most of what is written there supports what I have posted.

No, it doesn't. It emphasizes that enforcing the rules as written is important, and that's not what you're encouraging.

[bigjohn]

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