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WH on Bad Call at Football Game: 'Pressing Matter,' 'Astounding' and 'Very Distressing'
Weekly Standard ^ | Sept 25, 2012 | Daniel Halper

Posted on 09/25/2012 3:21:12 PM PDT by bkopto

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To: bkopto

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.


41 posted on 09/25/2012 4:35:47 PM PDT by Slyfox
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To: bkopto

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.


42 posted on 09/25/2012 4:36:00 PM PDT by Truth is a Weapon (Truth, it hurts so good.)
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To: bkopto
Imagine if "Syracuse" had an NFL team.


43 posted on 09/25/2012 4:48:30 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement (Obama "acted stupidly.")
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To: bkopto

This is just noise.


44 posted on 09/25/2012 4:49:37 PM PDT by lwoodham (I am Andrew Breitbart. Don't doubt me on this.)
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To: Sarah Barracuda
Will Obama accuse the refs of “Acting stupidly?” Obama, quick to respond to a football game, meanwhile 4 Dead Americans get slaughtered in Libya, not a peep

....on American Soil, in Libya. Just a 'bump' of a act of war for 0pansy.

45 posted on 09/25/2012 4:49:51 PM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: redshawk

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


46 posted on 09/25/2012 4:52:27 PM PDT by Sarah Barracuda
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To: FES0844

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.”


47 posted on 09/25/2012 4:54:44 PM PDT by ilovesarah2012
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To: catnipman
Exactly, 0pansy simply can't help but stick his nose in places that he thinks will gain him favor in the eyes of voters. Further, 0pansy has time to watch football? I don't. I must work for a living in order to pay for 0pansyCARE and the 47% of folks sucking off the teat of taxpayers. This empty chair will be gone come Nov.
48 posted on 09/25/2012 4:58:02 PM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: fhayek

The League Statement faulted the refs for not making the pass interference call.


49 posted on 09/25/2012 5:00:23 PM PDT by colorado tanker
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To: bkopto

Obama says two sides should get together and work things out. Seriously? Look in the mirror, doofus...


50 posted on 09/25/2012 5:02:13 PM PDT by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: fella

They were fired over a misunderstanding of the, ‘Illegal use of hands’ rule. :)


51 posted on 09/25/2012 5:34:38 PM PDT by Delta Dawn (The whole truth.)
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To: bkopto

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.


52 posted on 09/25/2012 5:37:17 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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Exactly, 0pansy will say and do anthing to get votes. 0pansy is nothing more than a liar. Always will and always will be.

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.

53 posted on 09/25/2012 5:45:39 PM PDT by redshawk (0pansy is a Liar and Hates.........he just hates!)
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To: bkopto

At least it didn’t rise to the “bump in the road” level....


54 posted on 09/25/2012 6:24:47 PM PDT by Feckless (I was trained by the US << This Tagline Censored by FR >> ain't that irOnic?)
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To: bitt; STARWISE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; ColdOne; ...

Ineligible receiver downfield.

Thanks bkopto.


55 posted on 09/25/2012 8:55:46 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/)
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To: fhayek; bkopto; All
To be fair, interference is never called on a Hail Mary play. For either side. I am not sure why.

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.

56 posted on 09/25/2012 9:37:16 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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Was there an ineligible receiver downfield on that play? That does happen quite a bit when a quarterback takes a long time to get rid of the pass, and it wouldn't be the first time it was missed, even by experienced officials. They're just not focused on it with all the other stuff going on.
57 posted on 09/25/2012 9:42:54 PM PDT by justiceseeker93
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To: ez

Oh how I hate to admit it but this is the first thing I have ever agreed with Obummer on?


58 posted on 09/26/2012 5:49:09 AM PDT by DaveA37
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To: fhayek; bkopto; justiceseeker93
To be fair, interference is never called on a Hail Mary play. For either side. I am not sure why.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 . . .

59 posted on 09/26/2012 7:39:45 AM PDT by conservatism_IS_compassion (The idea around which “liberalism" coheres is that NOTHING actually matters except PR.)
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Thanks for your reply, conservatism_IS_compassion.

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.

60 posted on 09/26/2012 9:14:36 AM PDT by justiceseeker93
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