Re: Defering in the NFL

Harold Buck wrote:
> 
> 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:

That is a very slippery slope. One I do not wish to traverse. The fact
is; the rule book does clearly spell out what the options are. What's
next; Are we going to call it an incomplete pass, if a player asks a
cheerleader for her phone number and doesn't get it?
Or better yet, is a a complete pass if he shouts to her, and she is
gives it to him from beyond the line to gain. I know that is silly, but
that is basically Scotts argument. The word has more than one meaning,
so what the rule book says it means doesn't matter.



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