Re: Defering in the NFL

Harold Buck wrote:
> 
> In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
>  Guardenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > >
> > > You are probably a real pip when people saw lateral instead of backwards
> > > pass.
> >
> > Not too many people care about a backwards lateral. However I usually
> > just smile when i hear someone scream about a forward lateral.
> 
> Are you an official or a fan? Because according to the rules, there's no
> such thing as a lateral, just a forward pass or a backward pass. I'm not
> even a football official and I know that.

I never said there was anything in the rules about a lateral, forward or
backward. Someone else mentioned it and I replied. A lot of people
believe that it is against the rules, to use an underhanded pass for a
forward pass, even though it is perfectly legal. At least once year we
all hear someone, usually a fan, shouting about a forward lateral, and
how stupid, blind, unethical, ect. we are for not calling it. 



> 
> Look, I've explained your stupid argument to people, but they still
> think you're being an idiot. I even understand your point, and *I* think
> you're being an idiot. And Scott--who never met an idiotic argument that
> allowed him to resist trying to get the last word in--is also being an
> idiot. Why don't you all just drop it?

I would have dropped it weeks ago, except for one thing. Several people
have called me names for making a point. No one has proven my point
wrong. Sure you can say that technically defer is "an option to the
winner" but as I said in my original response, that got this whole thing
started. Defer is not an option according to fed rule 3-2-3.

> 
> --Harold Buck
> 
> "I used to rock and roll all night,
>  and party every day.
>  Then it was every other day. . . ."
>       -Homer J. Simpson