Little Caesars Bowl: Marshall vs. Ohio

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by jaybird

While some of you are being all gushy over her, I am of the opinion that there are plenty of qualified men to fill the football officiating ranks without having the novelty of using a woman on a crew. We can do just fine without her, thank you.

I hope you're aware that the same arguments were used to keep blacks and Latinos out of the officiating ranks for decades. "I am of the opinion that there are plenty of qualified white men to fill the officiating ranks without having the novelty of using minorities on the crew." Doesn't sound so harmless put like that, does it?

[Umpmazza]

Originally Posted by mbyron

I hope you're aware that the same arguments were used to keep blacks and Latinos out of the officiating ranks for decades. "I am of the opinion that there are plenty of qualified white men to fill the officiating ranks without having the novelty of using minorities on the crew." Doesn't sound so harmless put like that, does it?

Im not a black or Latino, but dang you have a really good point there.

[jaybird]

Originally Posted by mbyron

I hope you're aware that the same arguments were used to keep blacks and Latinos out of the officiating ranks for decades. "I am of the opinion that there are plenty of qualified white men to fill the officiating ranks without having the novelty of using minorities on the crew." Doesn't sound so harmless put like that, does it?

Taken out of content, a lot of words can be twisted into a different meaning. Stay on task here.

Race is not an issue. It was never implied, suggested nor contemplated and anyone shallow enough to drag that into the picture must have an underlying problem with the color of a person's skin. So please, stick with the topic at hand and give up the attempt to make it a racial issue.

[mbyron]

Originally Posted by jaybird

Taken out of content, a lot of words can be twisted into a different meaning. Stay on task here.

Race is not an issue. It was never implied, suggested nor contemplated and anyone shallow enough to drag that into the picture must have an underlying problem with the color of a person's skin. So please, stick with the topic at hand and give up the attempt to make it a racial issue.

The topic at hand is discrimination, given your baldly discriminatory remark. You seem to be unaware that your argument has been used before. And you know what they say about those who cannot remember the past.

[bossman72]

There are some people that will get pushes that others won't:

-Minorities
-Women
-Former D1 or NFL players
-Relatives of officials

Those criteria will move you up and get your foot in the door, but it sure as hell won't keep you there. You need to be able to work to stay at that level.

In the words of Chris Rock: "I don't feel I deserve a job over a white man that's more qualified. But if it's a tie... f*ck em!"

haha!

[Rich]

Originally Posted by bossman72

There are some people that will get pushes that others won't:

-Minorities
-Women
-Former D1 or NFL players
-Relatives of officials

Those criteria will move you up and get your foot in the door, but it sure as hell won't keep you there. You need to be able to work to stay at that level.

In the words of Chris Rock: "I don't feel I deserve a job over a white man that's more qualified. But if it's a tie... f*ck em!"

haha!

Many officials are talented enough to stay there. It's getting the foot in the door that *is* the problem.