I thought the Fenwick one was bad. Maybe all lawyers are just bad.
They probably colluded on a mutually agreeable outcome prior to the "decision" much like divorce attorneys, not worth their best acting jobs.
Did they have enough West Side and Proviso Twp On the roster to be meet his criteria? P N might have the same if not more flava.
Nothing to forfeit. Game was over at that point. Walk off the yardage, set the ball, ball goes over on downs to PN.
I finally saw the game replay tonight. I thought the same thing. I guess...technically....it was intentional grounding. Given the situation, I'm not sure I would have thrown the flag. You never want to decide the game as an official, if you don't have to. In this case, throwing the flag in the first place was questionable, IMO.
The flag was for intentional grounding, which was the correct call. It was the application that was wrong.
Exactly, ref, which is something I think a lot of people aren't understanding. The call in the middle of the game affects the game just as much as the one at the end.
I think HS rules and refs could use an injection of common sense, though. For example, I know whether or not a ball is catchable does not impact whether or not pass interference is called on the HS level. However, IMO, a good ref exercises a bit of common sense when calling PI. If the ball is not even in the vicinity of the receiver, PI should not be called. I see a lot of HS refs not exercise common sense in their calls. I also see too many that I would label as overzealous in their calling of a game. They seem to want to become too big a part of the action. The best refs are not noticed at any level of sports. JMO.
One other thought I had on this. It involves a different arena....basketball. I was at a regional final game in the 90's or early 2000's. JCA was playing Lockport. JCA was down one with seconds to go. A JCA player heaved a shot from 3-quarter court (approximately 60 or 70 feet from the hoop). A Lockport player jumped up and caught the ball in front of the rim as time expired. The officials, believe it or not, called goal-tending on the play and gave the basket to JCA. Was this "technically" the right call? Maybe....maybe not. However, it was an absolutely horrific call to make in that situation. You just don't make a call like that on a shot of that length to determine the outcome of a game. To this day, I still can't believe that official made that call. And I still say it was an absolutely horrible call, even though the team I follow was the beneficiary of it. That, IMO, was a call made by an overzealous official. And the timing of it contributed to the horrific nature of the call.
