Re: Defering in the NFL

"Guardenman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> 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, several people have called you names for NOT
making a point, and for NOT answering the direct
questions put to you.


> No one has proven my point wrong.

Sure we have.  It will become clear to you once you
answer the question.


> Sure you can say that technically defer is "an option to the
> winner"

Technically?  %^D

Defer is the FIRST option available to the winner of the toss!



> 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.

Only if you are incapable of comprehending the English language.


--  Scott