What is the foul?

[Adam]

Originally Posted by bigjohn

I didn't say a word about FAIR. I am talking about calling the rules as written in the rule book.
If one team is breaking the rule and it is not called then they are certainly gaining an advantage because they should be penalized and they are not.

The rules are written to prevent a team from gaining an unfair advantage; not so the other team can get some cheap advantage from a penalty enforcement.

Merely breaking a rule isn't providing an advantage in and of itself. The question is, "What advantage did they gain by breaking the rule?"

I'm not even a football guy, but I can tell that the officials on here are trying to tell you this particular rule is enforced when an advantage is gained and ignored when it is not. It's pretty common in sports. If you don't like it, sorry; but that's just how it is.