By the rules - right call on Wadley

[MoseSchrute]

Obviously the rules are applied by different degrees to different teams, I guess.

 

[DMLadyhawk]

Obviously the rules are applied by different degrees to different teams, I guess.

The refs: Well I can't give you an exact interpretation of the rule, or exactly which conduct is unsportsmanlike........but I know it when I see it. Some conduct is pretty clear cut and spelled out in the rules and some is so open to interpretation that it is literally impossible to tell the players what not to do. If that makes any sense

 

[thedukeofearl]

Obviously the rules are applied by different degrees to different teams, I guess.

Not always, Mose.....

Took a while to find this one. Apparently it is extremely rare though.....

I really don't mind the penalty being called on LSU though.....


Once again, quite questionable.....

However, it is difficult not to enjoy this one.....

 

[ArvadaHawk]

The call that really got me was the non-call when one of our guys caught a pass along the sideline and had already made one step out of bounds and the NSTU defender pushed him in the back, making him sprawl to the ground. So, if Manny's play was a personal foul, why wasn't this one?

 

[Bigfist]

The one who hit the player in the eye years ago deserved one.

That was none other than the worst NFL ref in history, Jeff Triplette. He hit RT Orlando Brown of the Cleveland Browns in one of his eyes, throwing a flag on a false start, and it wasn't even Brown who committed the false start.
Brown ended up with vision problems in that eye for quite a long period of time and sued the NFL. As I recall, he settled for a couple of million dollars.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

The call that really got me was the non-call when one of our guys caught a pass along the sideline and had already made one step out of bounds and the NSTU defender pushed him in the back, making him sprawl to the ground. So, if Manny's play was a personal foul, why wasn't this one?

Fant was the victim, and frankly, he was pushed into equipment/apparatus and could have been hurt. I couldn't believe it when Manny then got called, either.

 

[Chickenlounge]

Maybe the refs can retroactively throw a flag on this play and take away the win from us.

 

[ArvadaHawk]

Fant was the victim, and frankly, he was pushed into equipment/apparatus and could have been hurt. I couldn't believe it when Manny then got called, either.

in my opinion, Manny was an example of what I described as refs who never played the game but read the hell out of the play book. Manny was legally reaching to make contact when the receiver was still in bounds but didn't make contact until the receiver was out of bounds. Plus, Manny was moving faster and his momentum took him into making contact. Again, technically, a correct call, but a play on to me. We see it all the time with no call. Fant's play, simply a blown call by the refs.

 

[hawkeyebob62]

in my opinion, Manny was an example of what I described as refs who never played the game but read the hell out of the play book. Manny was legally reaching to make contact when the receiver was still in bounds but didn't make contact until the receiver was out of bounds. Plus, Manny was moving faster and his momentum took him into making contact. Again, technically, a correct call, but a play on to me. We see it all the time with no call. Fant's play, simply a blown call by the refs.

Spot-on. Fant's play, being "early" in the game, was probably a matter of officials being too slow. Calls after that were thus affected by "We gotta be ON this thing!" Unfortunately, rarely were they "on"...