Video for review.

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rita C

Of course I know better. Which is one reason I didn't even watch it. But I respect my friend and he asked honestly. My reasoning to bring it here was to get football officials opinions.

Not to mention I would be highly biased, living in Western Washington as I do.

Rita

My simple point Rita is that you as an official should realize "fanboy" content. I do not have to do a sport and know that fans almost never like to take responsiblity their team short comings. It is often someone else's fault.

Peace

[Rita C]

Originally Posted by JRutledge

My simple point Rita is that you as an official should realize "fanboy" content. I do not have to do a sport and know that fans almost never like to take responsiblity their team short comings. It is often someone else's fault.

Peace

Well of course I do. Which is PRECISELY why I came here. Being a fan of the Seahawks made me ineligible to give my friend the unbiased view of the film that he needed. I could tell him that I know better because I'm an official. In fact, I told him I would not watch it and told him I would post it here to get the unbiased look he wanted.

I wanted people who could give him the kind of answer he wanted which was a legitimate look at it. I wanted someone who could, in an unbiased fashion, say it was a fanboy's sour grapes.

Someone understood that and did just that.

Rita

[JRutledge]

OK Rita.

Peace

[Rich]

Originally Posted by Rita C

Well of course I do. Which is PRECISELY why I came here. Being a fan of the Seahawks made me ineligible to give my friend the unbiased view of the film that he needed.

Why? Are you an official or not? I can certainly separate the two even if a team that I'm a fan of is playing.

[Rita C]

Originally Posted by Rich

Why? Are you an official or not? I can certainly separate the two even if a team that I'm a fan of is playing.

Meaning, that My saying there's no cheating by the official really doesn't have as much weight as YOUR saying there's no cheating by the official.

It's a matter of perception.

Rita

[JRutledge]

Originally Posted by Rita C

Meaning, that My saying there's no cheating by the official really doesn't have as much weight as YOUR saying there's no cheating by the official.

It's a matter of perception.

Rita

It does not have to mean anything, but you can tell a person how silly their premise can be. After all if you are an official, you know how you get games. You think someone that has video tape is going to openly commit a fraud on the public (which is illegal BTW) to help a team win. And the things in that video were so silly and ridiculous, anyone with a brain can see that.

You will never change everyone's perception, but you can make them feel silly for making those claims. And this is really the case when an injury is blamed on the officials because of what happened in a previous play.

Peace

[bisonlj]

Originally Posted by Rita C

Meaning, that My saying there's no cheating by the official really doesn't have as much weight as YOUR saying there's no cheating by the official.

It's a matter of perception.

Rita

I agree but someone like this isn't going to believe any official who tells him there was no cheating involved here. He'll just say we are protecting our fellow officials.