Re: Defering in the NFL

In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
 Guardenman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Ok Scott. You are obviously nothing more than a troll. I have answered
> your often repeated questions. If you have an intelligent thing to say.
> Say it. Otherwise I am done responding to your juvenile repetitions of
> the same thing.
> One more time. Without getting into all the possible definitions of
> every word in the rule book. Rule 3-2-3 clearly states what the options
> are. There are two. Defer is not on the list. If you can prove me wrong
> on this point I am listening. If you are going to just continue to write
> nonsense and repeat silly questions, that have already been answered. I
> will assume you know I am right and just wont admit it publicly.


Scott is a lot of things, but not a troll. You're acting like the troll. 

Why don't you respond to this point: even though the rules do not call 
"defer" an option, does not "defer" meet the dictionary definition of an 
option:

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Main Entry: 1op?tion 
Pronunciation: 'ap-sh&n
Function:   noun
Etymology:  French, from Latin option-, optio free choice; akin to Latin 
optare to choose
Date: circa 1604
1 : an act of choosing
2 a : the power or right to choose : freedom of choice b : a privilege 
of demanding fulfillment of a contract on any day within a specified 
time c : a contract conveying a right to buy or sell designated 
securities, commodities, or property interest at a specified price 
during a stipulated period; also : the right conveyed by an option d : a 
right of an insured person to choose the form in which payments due on a 
policy shall be made or applied
3 : something that may be chosen: as a : an alternative course of action 
<didn't have many options open> b : an item that is offered in addition 
to or in place of standard equipment
4 : an offensive football play in which a back may choose whether to 
pass or run with the ball -- called also option play
synonym see CHOICE 

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You had damn well better say it does, since you yourself said that it is 
a choice, and that is a synonym for option.

The POINT, which you keep ignoring, is that defer is an option in the 
usual sense of the word eveen though they chose not to apply the word 
option to defer when they worded the rules.

--Harold Buck


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