Forum: Football
Sun Nov 23, 2008, 02:08pm
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Replies: 44
Views: 6,324
regarding protests
Regarding the fact that protests are not allowed, I believe in 99% of all cases a reversal such as this would be dangerous as a precedent.
But in this case there is a clear and obvious exception....
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Forum: Football
Sun Oct 26, 2008, 12:27am
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Replies: 7
Views: 1,672
there's a spec of fly dung in the pepper
I'm confused by your interpretation. When you say twice above your head, are you saying left-right is one waive, so it needs to be left-right-left-right? Or are left and right seperate and therefore...
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Forum: Football
Sun Oct 26, 2008, 12:16am
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Replies: 36
Views: 5,098
interesting
It was called no catch on the field. Other than hitting the pylon, nothing came down in bounds. I was rooting for Michigan and I couldnt believe it was being reviewed because it wasn't close. I was...
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Forum: Football
Fri Oct 24, 2008, 12:22pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,085
Some years ago I was working as an editor of a...
Some years ago I was working as an editor of a small-town weekly paper and I liked to take news items from years past and see how far the town had come. In one of these older issues there was a...
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Forum: Football
Thu Oct 23, 2008, 10:56pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,085
doubt it
until I started reading these boards I had never heard of 6, 8, or 9 man football. I knew there was a page in the back of the rules book about it, but I thought there might only be a handful of...
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Forum: Football
Tue Oct 21, 2008, 11:50pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 2,127
Who was hurt?
What would the offense want? To keep the CB away from the ball carrier.
If the CB is out there holding someone then he's not going to be making the tackle, right? So what's the issue. He took...
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Forum: Football
Tue Oct 21, 2008, 11:39pm
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Replies: 64
Views: 8,139
hollow threat
We had something not nearly so vile, but along the same lines.
(First of all, if coaches are allowed to ding officials because they don't agree with calls, then that system is FUBAR in the first...
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Forum: Football
Sun Oct 19, 2008, 04:57pm
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Replies: 8
Views: 2,936
not uncommon
At a school last ge of season, already dark when we arrive at 5:45 for a 7:30 kick. Lights are on. We're barely out of the car when transformer blows. Sounds like a cannon. AD says they're going to...
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Forum: Football
Thu Oct 16, 2008, 10:57pm
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Replies: 12
Views: 2,270
oxyclean
I had a game one night that was so muddy I considered throwing my uniform in the trash. My socks were solid brown. Knickers a complete mess.
I doused them in spray-on OxyClean and put them in a...
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Forum: Football
Mon Oct 13, 2008, 10:15pm
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Replies: 28
Views: 3,941
no
you won't find any rules support as there is none. Sounded like you worked with a guy who doesn't know the rules or makes up his own.
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Forum: Football
Mon Oct 13, 2008, 10:07pm
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Replies: 42
Views: 4,994
same as wrong ball play in Fed
The Case Book is clear: Any action or verbage designed to make the defense think the snap is not iminent is ... unsportsmanlike conduct
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Forum: Football
Tue Oct 07, 2008, 07:56pm
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Replies: 31
Views: 5,567
Reading too much into it
Ed, I'm pretty sure you're alone in a crowd on this one. Let me see if I can expand on the place where the disconnect is, and if anyone disagrees with me, that's fine, too.
The case plays you...
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Forum: Football
Sun Oct 05, 2008, 11:20pm
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Replies: 30
Views: 5,535
knee pads here
I saw one player with short pants several years ago. Nothing since. I've been expecting it, but it hasn't shown up yet here. Chest bumps, yes.
The message on the arm bands seems to have got...
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Forum: Football
Wed Oct 01, 2008, 10:14pm
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Replies: 27
Views: 3,684
Answer to those way ahead
When a player from a team that's comfortly ahead late in the game cries about wanting a flag, I just tell them that if I throw a flag I have to stop the clock, and his team is better served with the...
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Forum: Football
Tue Sep 30, 2008, 10:06pm
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,266
only one problem, ever
If they're not saying anything and out of the way, they can do their job anywhere they want to go, outside the 2-yard restraining line.
Had one guy who was a school's cross country coach and kept...
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Forum: Football
Fri Sep 26, 2008, 10:51am
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Replies: 10
Views: 2,086
No. It starts when it starts. With 5 seconds to...
No. It starts when it starts. With 5 seconds to go the ECO should make the next play the last, regardless of whether it's a TD or not, so the game will end. At this point, how it 21-0 more fair that...
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Forum: Football
Sun Sep 07, 2008, 12:18am
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Replies: 81
Views: 7,499
Rules committee
I agree with what has been said, and Mark May really showed his ignorance tonight.
The part that really gets me is some of the guys o ESPN Radio have mentioned that it is the rule -- a dumb rule...
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Forum: Football
Tue Sep 02, 2008, 09:50pm
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Replies: 13
Views: 5,694
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Forum: Football
Tue Sep 02, 2008, 09:41pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,547
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Forum: Football
Mon Sep 01, 2008, 11:00pm
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Replies: 9
Views: 1,547
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Forum: Football
Wed Aug 27, 2008, 06:06pm
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Replies: 61
Views: 8,110
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Forum: Football
Sat Aug 23, 2008, 12:09am
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Replies: 19
Views: 2,950
Rarely doesn't mean never
Smitty, kook at what Forksref and Careyy said. careyy spells out a time when a whistle would be appropriate, and Forksref said the U will rarely blow the whistle. He didn't say the U will never blow...
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Forum: Football
Sun Aug 17, 2008, 10:02pm
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Replies: 14
Views: 2,062
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Forum: Football
Mon Aug 11, 2008, 12:23am
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Replies: 12
Views: 1,955
Great question
That's a great question. One I've never thought of, but I think you have it backward. The 50 should diappear altogether. Consider, it's 5 yards from the goal line to the 5 yd stripe. then it's 4...
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Forum: Football
Sun Aug 10, 2008, 11:21pm
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Replies: 54
Views: 5,222
My thoughts exactly.
I've seen other guys...
My thoughts exactly.
I've seen other guys blistered by coaches: "You saw that hold. I know you did! You were going to flag it! Why didn't you flag it?! I know you saw it?!"
Cute comebacks or...
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