Posted on 09/25/2012 3:21:12 PM PDT by bkopto
The White House weighed in on the blown call that cost the Green Bay Packers the football game last night against the Seattle Super Hawks. Via the pool report, from aboard Air Force One:
Carney ... was eager to weigh in on an issue he called a “pressing matter,” “astounding” and “very distressing” -- the end of the Packers-Seahawks game.
Carney said he had talked to the president this morning about it.
Carney noted that the president had discussed the issue last week in an interview with a Cleveland radio station and “as a sports fan he thought it was time to get back to the regular refs. "
"This morning I talked to him about the end of the Packers-Seahawks game and he said that what happened in that game is a perfect example of why both sides need to come together, resolve their differences so that the regular refs can get back on the field and we can start focusing on a game that so many of us love rather than debating whether of not a game is won or lost because of a bad call."
"He thinks there were real problems with the call."
(Excerpt) Read more at weeklystandard.com ...
I don’t know why, but I feel in my gut of guts that BJ Obama is going to ruin this football season, Dancing with the Stars, and probably Christmas.
So he stayed up until late to see the blown play. But he could not stay up to see if his Ambassador to Libya was dead or alive.
God, this creature is disgusting.
This is just noise.
....on American Soil, in Libya. Just a 'bump' of a act of war for 0pansy.
Obama only comments if it helps him politically..Green Bay Packers..Wisconsin..swing state..needs the votes. Meanwhile, Americans dying overseas by Muslims, nah not important, of course it’s not important to Obama, Obama is a Muslim he doesn’t want to say anything that goes against his people
http://nation.foxnews.com/chicago-teachers-strike/2012/09/17/chicago-teachers-unload-obama
CHICAGO – When the White House officially had “no comment” on the Chicago teachers’ strike, EAGnews.org wanted to know what the union activists thought. Our team got some pretty interesting answers and they could be trouble signs for President Obama.
One teacher, holding a sign reading “Obama don’t ignore us,” told EAG, “I think most teachers understand that his education policy is pretty bad and it really neglects us. And I want to, through all this – he has to look at us and hear what we’re having to say, instead of just pretending like this isn’t happening. I made this sign when they asked his press secretary for comment and they had no comment. It was a national story – Romney had commented, Paul Ryan had commented, Rahm Emanuel had commented, the White House wouldn’t comment. And that’s what he has to know. There’s a lot of teachers in Ohio. There’s a lot of teachers in Wisconsin. All those swing states are full of teachers and if he keeps ignoring us, he’s gonna start regretting it.”
The League Statement faulted the refs for not making the pass interference call.
Obama says two sides should get together and work things out. Seriously? Look in the mirror, doofus...
They were fired over a misunderstanding of the, ‘Illegal use of hands’ rule. :)
On ABC news tonight it started with a slap at Romney, a love fest for Obama at the UN, and this football call.
At that point I decided I could not take anymore so went outside.
I agree, 0pansy is a ‘closet muzzie’. He is not to be trusted. He aligns himself with the muzzie brother-hood terrorists.
0pansy will be gone come Nov. Romney wins by landslide.
At least it didn’t rise to the “bump in the road” level....
Ineligible receiver downfield.
Thanks bkopto.
The reason is that you have a whole bunch of players - possible receivers and defenders - close together in a relatively small area of the field. The one or two officials nearby have a lot of moving bodies to observe simultaneously. So it's a lot easier for a player to get away with such a push than under the more usual circumstance when you have one receiver and one defender isolated in an area looking for the pass as it arrives.
Furthermore, calling offensive pass interference is relatively rare no matter what the circumstances.
But even rarer is a call of "simultaneous catch" on any play on any level of football, let alone on the last decisive play of the game. This was not a circumstance of of a "simultaneous catch," however, since the defensive player clearly had firm possession of the ball before he hit the ground and maintained that possession until he hit the ground. The offensive player's reaching around the defender's body to get both hands on the ball late as he is lying on the ground does not constitute simultaneous possession. Yet the official was badly fooled by this desperation trick.
Oh how I hate to admit it but this is the first thing I have ever agreed with Obummer on?
The reason is that you have a whole bunch of players - possible receivers and defenders - close together in a relatively small area of the field. The one or two officials nearby have a lot of moving bodies to observe simultaneously. So it's a lot easier for a player to get away with such a push than under the more usual circumstance when you have one receiver and one defender isolated in an area looking for the pass as it arrives.To be fair, interference is never called on a Hail Mary play. For either side. I am not sure why.
That, and the fact that a main hope of the “Hail Mary” pass is a defensive pass interference call, which would give the offense one more play, with the ball on the 2-yard line.Furthermore, calling offensive pass interference is relatively rare no matter what the circumstances.I would think that knowledge of that would make the refs reluctant to call interference, thereby becoming the story. As they certainly did in this case, anyway.
But even rarer is a call of "simultaneous catch" on any play on any level of football, let alone on the last decisive play of the game. This was not a circumstance of of a "simultaneous catch," however, since the defensive player clearly had firm possession of the ball before he hit the ground and maintained that possession until he hit the ground. The offensive player's reaching around the defender's body to get both hands on the ball late as he is lying on the ground does not constitute simultaneous possession. Yet the official was badly fooled by this desperation trick.
That is a whole different point - the fact that attempts to fool the ref are taken for granted. I’ve never fully reconciled myself to that corruption, tho I confess to having committed it myself when the opportunity pressed itself on me in a softball game once. A pitcher, I was playing out of position at second base when a runner stole second. The catcher threw him out - as long as you don’t know that the ball popped out of my glove into my close by right hand. The ref couldn’t see that, and I couldn’t bring myself to disappoint my teammates by pointing out what only I knew. Everyone expected “gamesmanship" in that situation. And there it is . . .
Two little corrections:
(1) In the NFL, defensive pass interference in the end zone as time runs out gives the offense one additional play with the ball on the one yard line. (Under college rules, the additional play would originate on the two yard line.)
(2) In the softball game you mentioned, you fooled the umpire, not the ref.
In this NFL mess, people are often mistakenly calling all the guys who wear striped shirts "refs," rather than "officials." Actually, the designation of "referee" in football only refers to the specific official who normally takes a position behind the offense during a scrimmage down. He wears a distinctive cap compared to his six fellow on-field officials, and is considered the chief of the officiating crew.
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