Schwartz: Sucking the Fun Out of Football
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Seth53
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I agree with most of this. I will say though if you let a "little" go, then a little becomes the norm, which we don't need. One of the reasons I quit watching the NFL is the constant preening and peacock-ing after every single play when a guy does his job. The Sharpies, six shooters, all that crap after touchdowns. College football needs to be better than that.
lazyhawkfan
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I don't get how high stepping for two strides is punishable but shushing the crowed after a td is acceptable. Unt did that after their first td . I don't care that they did it, just seems like more of a taunt to me than what wadley did.
I stopped watching when my team became consistent losers, and they outlawed all that other stuff that makes the otherwise stiff, uptight, copycat, no-risk style of play boring to watch other teams I have no interest invested in.
judzeehawk
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I'm looking forward to PSU getting penalized for the stuff they do after a TD!
hawkijustin
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That and many other flags on both teams were results of a pretty clear power trip by the refs.
hawkeyebob62
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And therein is the bigger issue, to me: You will NEVER see this called against U$C, Bama, O$U, P$U, Michigan, Florida/Florida State/Miami or pretty much any upper-tier $EC team.
When Wadley high-steps to make a move, is THAT a penalty? When a DB does an arm-cross after defending a pass, is THAT a penalty?
On the Easley "touchback", did they even show "indisputable" evidence that the ball was coming out BEFORE he broke the plane? The penalty on AJE? Don't get me started. And UNT got bad calls, as well. That PI call on a CLEARLY tipped ball was borderline absurd. NO official saw it get tipped?
Which, of course, leads to two bigger problems: that which is "reviewable", and the fact certain "judgment" calls can be overturned and some can't.
GesterHawk
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The officials were really quick to throw the flags today. Good news is that they were equally bad to both sides.
GesterHawk
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Akrum should know better, but that was a borderline call at best.
I would like to know if anyone has seen it called like that on ANY team before, not just USC, tOSU or Alabama.
guffus
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I was indifferent to this call until I read that article. I just got more mad as read. It treated Wadley like a new freshman who has never scored a TD before.
Wadley is senior who did this show-off stuff a lot when he was younger. He has scored plenty of TD's by now. I thought Wadley had mutured and was beyond all that crap by now. KF is right. Wadley is giod enough and experienced enough he does mot need to do that show off stuff, and should know better.
Wadley is senior who did this show-off stuff a lot when he was younger. He has scored plenty of TD's by now. I thought Wadley had mutured and was beyond all that crap by now. KF is right. Wadley is giod enough and experienced enough he does mot need to do that show off stuff, and should know better.
Seth53
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And I 100% agree with this. It's subjective and that's never a good thing.
I could never score enough 75 yard touchdowns to quit being happy about it. Or are you saying he should be happy, but just pretend he's not? Like a real sign of maturity is to pretend you're not happy when you actually are happy? Is smiling a sign of immaturity?
MoseSchrute
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Agreed...and screw the NFL...and I can definitely do without the showboating stuff...and that little move by Wadley was certainly not worthy of erasing a TD. I figured they would walk off 15 yds. on the ensuing kickoff.
SamBrownlee48
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I can safely say I'd rather see them sucking the fun out of football rather than f*ckiing the sun out of football.
MursenarySkum
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Go home Sam, you're drunk!
kicker22
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That's the problem. They were too busy trying to show off their vast knowledge by calling a penalty that is never called, then they were about calling or getting wrong the routine penalties that should be called everyday. It's a complete joke. IMO the fact crews, game in and game out, officiate at a level in which calls are so frequently wrong or missing during the course of a game, regardless of which team you cheer for, is more detrimental to the sport then what is construed as unsportsmanlike conduct.
If it's going to be called at all it needs to be called universally and not as infrequently as it is. If rules like this exist they need to be enforced regularly and not once in a blue moon. And for the love of God, get the penalties consistent to it being assessed on the kick or at the spot of the violation rather than upholding a TD if it happens after the player is in the end zone as opposed to him being on his way there.
They did call their player for it... Beings it was AFTER he scored it still counts. As would have Wadleys if he'd have waited till he got to the goal line to do it.
It's one of those things I'm not sure coaches harp on as much as they necessarily should. It's like till someone pulls that stunt and gets called for it the coaches probably figure it's common sense to not go hot dogging it out there regardless of pre or post scoring, I just hope Wadley doesn't have to be told twice... Or anyone else once. Once it costs you points on the board or god forbid a game I don't care about the principle of the matter play by the rules it's not that damn tough to do.
