A couple of phantom pass interference calls would clear that right up.
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Maybe we've been looking at this the wrong way. They could make the no-huddle illegal except in the final five-minutes of the half/game.
The allusion to soccer is a good one. I love the game they call football in Europe - but I much prefer watching the women's game, because not only do they have hot bodies, the men have ruined their game with the ghey fake injuries. They're so obviously fake, so wussish, that I despise those so-and-so's. They absolutely wreck the game, take away any semblance that it's real competition - they're pussing their way to an advantage. So, so unmanly.
You let the Giants openly laugh and get away with one, it'll catch on and as soon as a coach wants his team to have a break he'll instruct player X to go down with an "injury." Next thing you know there are even more game stoppages, more television commercials, more gamesmanship, and soon disease breaks out all over the world. This will undermine an already-shaky world economy, and soon starvation will run rampant in heretofore prosperous countries. There will be a run on natural resources, a war will break out, and a desperate small country or group of economic terrorists will drop a nuclear bomb. The US will retaliate, which will cause Pakistan and Russia to retaliate, and one fine Sunday around noon instead of watching kickoff you'll be watching a mushroom cloud blossoming over your hometown.
Something must be done.
The NCAA is behind everything.
They hired Oswald, then Ruby. Didn't you know that?
Should the catchers stop pulling their glove quickly back over the plate a little to make it look more like a strike?
Should defensive players stop pointing at the OL when they knew they jumped first?
Should DL stop exaggerating the hold after they were held?
Should QB's stop lying on the turf longer after a possible late hit?
Should WR's stop pushing off while making it look like they aren't?
Faking injury is a bit far, but hey, it's effective. No different than pissing off a huge guy, then he gets out of the car, road raging, you step out with a small bat hidden behind your leg and destroy his knee. Bigger is nice. Better feels good. Smarter wins.
And there it is. I have met both ARod (baseball) and Jeter. Jeter is a prick. ARod is a nice guy. When that shit happened and the media chortled it up I said "if it had been ARod people would say he was a cheater. ARod tried to swat the ball out of the first basemans hand during a tag. The media crucified him. Man the media drives perceptions sometimes.
No, but I used to carry a bat in my car, just in case. The point is, there is this obsession with being flat out better than people, this pride/ego that comes with beating people, head-on, at their game. Does MM go out and pass every play against the best pass rushers to prove he can man up? Does AR stand in and take shots from Suh to prove he is a man? Is that what it's about, manning up, proving your a tougher guy? If so, keep it up. Whatever. I just do what it takes.
There is something exciting about dominance, something that sort of brings awe, but at the end of the day, I think people attach more to it than it deserves.
People who think they're classier, "better" human beings. . . . I find it interesting because what does it all add up to when we die? Is there a rule of god that you telegraph your intentions in the heat of battle to be a better man? Is there a rule that you set effectiveness aside to follow rules? ? ? ? ? I don't know. . . . Does a Tiger warn the hog he's going to drop from the tree? Does the human warn the buffalo before he raises up from behind a hill with a spear? Winning, being stealthy. . . It's almost an instinct. Pride, arrogance, moral superiority. . . . . The only result of those judgements is to make us feel better about ourselves and look down on other people. . . . At the end of hte day, when human competitiveness is at it's highest, effectiveness comes to the forefront, above all else. Is football the same as eating? Logically, no. In the heat of hte moment, are emotions so heightened that it could be comparable on that level? I say, "yes."
Now, if the end result of an unexpected move is that a person suffers for your gain with no purpose, with no heat of battle instinct. . . . just flat out ruthless disregard. . . . . I tend to make a mental note not to deal with said person. But when it's time to go it's time to go and sometimes just making it happen takes over in the moment. It's not even a thought, to be better, classier, more composed. It's just act, the moment rules.
And when you go to judge people ask yourself this, "have you walked a day in their shoes?" "Have you experienced what they have experienced?" If the answer to that question is, "I don't know", you might be able to look a little deeper. Class, calm, rationality in the moment. . . . . People who are insecure usually lack those things. They tend to be more defensive, backs against the wall a little. Before you judge other people, consider what motivates them. Consider what might cause them to respond differently.
I'm sure it makes you feel good to call these guys names. At the end of the day, they're just people, just like you. God doesn't put you on a pedestal. You were not born better, are not a better person. Have an open mind, sometimes things are deeper than the surface, than the impression.
Class, outward impression. . . . Those are things that can have multiple purposes to a person, not all as classy and superior as they seem. A true superior person, does what's right when no one is looking. A true superior person does not wrong people at all, has no regrets. . . . . I've yet to meet one.
I watched that clip, and it's terrible. I think those guys should be fined. If a guy can be fined for what he does on his own time because it hurts the NFL's image, than this qualifies in that category.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/0..._n_970957.html
They look like they forgot who's turn it was to fake the injury.
Just let one of your D-linemen 'trip' and fall on the scrub's ankle. That should do the trick.
BTW, what's with all the soccer hate PB?
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It's "the beautiful game", a battle between gentlemen, refined in the 19th century by the highest level of British scholars. :wink:
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Lack of fair play will always exist. I coach a soccer team of 12 to 14 year olds & last weekend we were down 1-2 at halftime against an inferior team. Literally from the first minute of the second half, the coach of opposing team was telling his guys to delay the game as much as possible, meaning to wait as long as possible for each throw-in, free kick or corner kick. When the ball went out on the left side of the pitch, he called for the player the furthest away on the right side to slowly walk over and perform the throw-in. It was insane. The game ended 1-2 and they celebrated like they won the world cup.
I'm talking about youth sports at the very lowest level here. How should we be surprised when it happens in a situation where millions of $ are on the line?