You didn't ask a question.

Then there's something mind-corrupting about officiating.

"Cost us the game" is a very, very common remark. It's said, and at least arguably correctly, even when the various "costs" during a game, tournament, or season add up to much more than the difference. But this is not crooked accounting.

If a candidate loses an election by 100 votes, and there were many factors that each caused hir to get 200 fewer votes, each of them can rightly be said to have cost hir the election. It's saying that if everything else were kept the same, this difference would produce that difference, and that's a sensible way to discuss it. If actions by elections officials could've been among the factors that each caused the candidate to get 200 votes fewer, someone's saying so should not cause elections officials everywhere in the world to bristle.

Robert,

More reasons coaches never get it. You come to places like that and do nothing but complain, then get upset when you get the answer. Look until coaches are required to take rules test or know what it is like to actually apply rules then just complain about them, no official is going to buy your guy's crap about what should have or should not have been called. Even when officials disagree, we have a since of what the darn rules are supposed to be. You guys on the other hand, claim something is illegal because you do not like the result.

Peace

It might work better if he had said, "cost us our last chance to make up for all of our other mistakes throughout the game."

Might.

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No, you didn't. You posted to b!tch about a call you didn't like.

"I know you guys have covered this topic many years ago in this forum but would someone please remind the world that a covered TE (covered by WR) can shift to the other side of the formation and then place his hands in the dirt, as long as he doesn't do so to simulate a snap or and is in a two point stance prior to shifting."

So before you start chastising people, make sure you take a deep breath and realize you're going to get these types of responses when you throw the first dagger.