Also - why is it that a running back can cross the plane, immediately flip the ball into the endzone and have it count but a receiver in the air breaks the plane, touches the ground, loses the ball, and it’s not a touch down?
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I hear that “make them full time” argument a lot, and that would make a lot of sense to me if I felt like the problem here was confusion over the rules themselves. But that just isn’t my diagnosis. And when you look at the leagues with full-time officials, who is holding up their hands to say those are better? My…
It’s not so much that the rules are too complicated (although I do think some of them are overcomplicated, like the catch rules (there’s so much involved in a catch that it’s basically multiple rules)), it’s that even simple rules can be ridiculously ambiguous. See “football move.” They need to be simplified somewhat,…
Exactly. Who’s to say that the guy in New York won’t get it wrong? Hopefully with the addition of an abundance of replay footage, they’d at least be a bit more accurate than the refs on the field. But I know there will still be mistakes, primarily, like you said, because of the rule book. I don’t think the NFL will…
I disagree. The rules are needlessly complicated because they try to cover every possible scenario. The old catch rule was fine - two feet down in bounds with possession. Up until 2000, the Dez Bryant play would have always been a catch with him down by contact at the one yard line.
No amount of simplifying the rule book will make it easier for an officiating crew to count to four.
It’s almost like the answer is to have full-time officials that could become absolute experts in their field and educate the teams during camp and the season. But that mean the billionaire owners would make more money slightly slower.
With all these links to other Deadspin articles you could take over for Patrick Redford.
He’s more like a stormtrooper, missing all those shots.
CNN’s PR instincts match their journalistic ones: turrible.
If he were jerking off, he probably would have turned off the Victoria’s Secret show to avoid the distraction.
what a moron. his people, the Sikhs serve in the Indian military back home fighting the pakistani muslims. the Sikh has more skin in the game than the redneck, burly3
Ugh. He knows that the person he’s talking to was born in the U.S. right? How much more Murrican can you get?
I still think the Strib comment section is someone’s performance art project. I can’t fathom how that can be worse than the shit I see on YouTube.
The “your” is the crowning turd on that pile of shit.
So much 1998 in this pic
It’s customary to put the defendant’s name second.
They should put those little spy cameras in the middle of each players helmet & fly drones above the field.
Not to mention the protection provided by the Tallahassee PD.