Another Eddie The Drama Queen Moment

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FreddyBrown

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Second half of the MN-PU game, a scramble for the ball heading OOB in front of the MN bench. One ref (name unknown) is absolutely ON TOP OF THE PLAY--in perfect position. He sees the MN player clearly touch the ball last as it slides OOB. The ref on top of the play makes the call for PU possession.

BUT WAIT! Here comes The Drama Queen flying in from 20 feet plus away, thinking HE'S got the call, gesticulating wildly as usual, signaling MN possession. One way or another the ref who was on top of the call quickly defers to Queenie.

Then they show the replay, the first ref was clearly right, and I can think of no reason Queenie stuck his nose into the play at all other than that HE HAS A FREAKING GOD COMPLEX!

Let me say this simply: A guy with that personality type has no business being a referee.
 
I'm noticing a lot less "discussion" about calls with this crew than when Eddie is with Teddie Valentine. I wonder why?
 
FreddyBrown said:
Second half of the MN-PU game, a scramble for the ball heading OOB in front of the MN bench. One ref (name unknown) is absolutely ON TOP OF THE PLAY--in perfect position. He sees the MN player clearly touch the ball last as it slides OOB. The ref on top of the play makes the call for PU possession.

BUT WAIT! Here comes The Drama Queen flying in from 20 feet plus away, thinking HE'S got the call, gesticulating wildly as usual, signaling MN possession. One way or another the ref who was on top of the call quickly defers to Queenie.

Then they show the replay, the first ref was clearly right, and I can think of no reason Queenie stuck his nose into the play at all other than that HE HAS A FREAKING GOD COMPLEX!

Let me say this simply: A guy with that personality type has no business being a referee.
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That was pretty funny (since the Hawks were not involved). You are right - the first ref was less than 5 feet away. Eddie was not quite as close (not even sure where he came from). Let's see what Eddie does here with 4.2 seconds left. :)
 
There was a picture in Monday's Gazette of Fast Eddie sucking up with the Big Ten Network crew prior to the Iowa-Michigan game. Looked alot like the Three Stooges.
 
It's time for Eddie to hang em up or the head of officiating should take his license or certificate away from the guy. The play in question tonight was the correct call until old drama Eddie came running in. When he calls a foul it seems like he has to give 5 examples of the foul even before turning to the scorers table. Looked like he was dry humping the air on one of the foul calls when a player used a knee on a screen.
 
Imagine how the official that made the correct call that was 5 feet away felt being shown up by showboat Eddie? It would **** me off.
 
vbeachawk said:
Imagine how the official that made the correct call that was 5 feet away felt being shown up by showboat Eddie? It would **** me off.
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In my opinion, that official spent the rest of the game on autopilot, paying no attention to enforcement of the rules. Instead, he was running over and over in his mind how he was going to get even with Queenie in the officials' locker room.

It wasn't just showing him up. It was as though he was a three year old pretending to do something, and in rushes mommie to show him how it's really done, without the slightest pretense of respect for how the three year old tried to do it in the first instance.

I'm going to check the news first thing in the morning, as I think the chances are good that some kind of serious criminal act will have been committed after the game in the officials' locker room.
 
How would you feel having to ref with eddie? I would hate it, he is the worst official in the nation. He always has to be the show and the main attraction.

That call last night just showed how much of an idiot he is. The guy 5ft away was in perfect view of the play. Eddie was back by half court, and shielded by a player. But he assumed he had the right call, and over-ruled the other ref.

One of these times, I hope one of these officials stands up to hightower on the court. God the guy is terrible, that call last night proved he has no idea what he is doing out there. He also had a hand-check on a minny player about 5 min later and the purdue guy was the one who used his elbow to push off on the minny player. Old Eddie at it again, i just hope he isn't in Evanston tonight, if he is, I'm not gonna watch, cause he will screw the hawks.
 
But....don't you realize Ed is one of the best referees in the game? That is what the announcers are always saying.
 
koolhandlick said:
There was a picture in Monday's Gazette of Fast Eddie sucking up with the Big Ten Network crew prior to the Iowa-Michigan game. Looked alot like the Three Stooges.
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He was doing the same thing with Gatens, Lil Lick, and Payne as well. So what does that make them?
 
It's not the first time Hightower pulled the rug out from under a member of his own officiating crew. Twelve years ago Hightower failed to come to the rescue of his partner Ted Valentine at Indiana as Bob Knight attempted to intimidate Valentine on the way to the lockerroom at halftime. Hightower's selfish disregard led to a blow-up between the two officials in their dressing room at the break, and they had to be separated by their third. Interesting account from Referee magazine:

Say Good Knight
 
Still expect to see Eddie do a full cartwheel someday as he comes screaming over from an obscured spot on the floor to overrule his fellow ref....he always dreamed of being a Jessie White Tumbler,I think.
 
I fell out of place defending Eddie but...

Did any of you see the PU player touch the ball while laying on out of bounds line?? That is what I saw on replay and I think that is what Eddie told the fellow ref. The Minn player did touch ball before ball went out but PU player touching it happened first.

Also, the overruled ref did call double dribble on Minn on next posession so he was hardly "out of it" for remainder of game. Maybe he felt he was doing a makeup call, for all I know.
 
Ha ha ha! Check this out! Sound Off could start with this...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oljwd9z24ik"]YouTube- Ed Hightower reviewing......Ed Hightower[/ame]

This one is pretty funny, but the background music singer has a potty mouth...
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nd7WHHMGNoE"]YouTube- Adventures of Ed[/ame]
 
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