Re: Defering in the NFL

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

> > 
> > 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.


Well, I think you're being an idiot about this whole thing. Sorry to 
name call, but that's how I feel at this point, and, since there isn't a 
single person in the newsgroup coming to your defense, maybe you should 
think about what that says regarding your position.

--Harold Buck


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