Bmwolf21

Surprisingly everyone on NBC's Football Night in American seems to be in agreement that it was NOT a dirty hit by any stretch. Collinsworth basically said that trying to call it dirty is ridiculous.

Bingo.

Natalie Portman, Kate Hudson, Michelle Pfeiffer and Debra Messing are charter members of the itty-bitty-titty committee. Beautiful faces and nice lower bodies, but just sadly deficient up top. Lindsay absolutely peaked in Mean Girls. It's been all downhill from there.

Good stuff, although I wouldn't count us out in Jax yet. I watched some of their game today, and Jacksonville's offense did not look good at all. Tennessee got to Garrard for seven sacks and picked him off twice.

Yep...karma's a B word.

No frigging way. Anchor Bar is overrated. Duff's = fantastic.

Thanks for weighing in with your opinion, but coming from an SEC/Florida fan it doesn't mean much.

You do realize it wasn't a FG try, but the "penalty" turned the PAT into a 35-yard attempt, right?

Why is tossing the ball in the air even a penalty? Because now some fat ref has to waddle ten extra feet to get the ball? So the ref couldn't explain to him after the flag what he did wrong? The refs wouldn't come to the training camps, like they do now, with their demonstrations and videos to show what will be allowed or forbidden? The NCAA couldn't work with the refs to come up with some sort of standard of what's an excessive celebration penalty and what's not? I guess asking paid professional referees to exercise judgment is too much. Again, the rule is asinine, and hopefully this play is the catalyst for change.

So you don't think it's possible that kids playing a game might get too excited after making a big play late in the game and forget that tossing the ball in the air is very very bad? I'm not going to debate this all day, but the bottom line is the rule sucks and needs to be changed.

Hadn't noticed that. Nice catch.

So in this case the outcome of a game was decided by an overly broad, vague rule that left no room for interpretation. What's the difference? Screwed by a bad rule or screwed by a judgment call - either way, you're still screwed. Games have always been decided on bad judgment calls. If one guy thinks it's excessive, then there's no reason why the refs can't huddle and talk about it and make sure it was excessive. And again, if we can't trust an official, with the NCAA's definitions and video examples, to know the difference between celebrating a big play and excessive celebration/taunting, then I don't want him calling NCAA Division I games. But I ask this - why does it even have to be that subjective? Classify them into three areas - taunting, excessive celebration in terms of length (delaying the game) and unsportsmanlike conduct for a choreographed celebration. Anything else, not a penalty.

Sheridan Drive in Amherst. LINK

Lost a tough one this week but from what I can tell it looks like they hung tough with Pitt. I'm interested in hearing opinions on the game from someone other than the prick AP writer who apparently thought Pitt should have blown UB off the field in the first quarter.

Agreed. I'm not arguing the call itself - according to everyone involved, there is no officials' judgment involved - it's "throw the ball at all and out comes the flag." And that's the BS part. The rule MUST allow for referees' judgment. Any idiot can see that the kid wasn't taunting or disrespecting anyone. He was excited about a clutch play late in the game. I don't understand why the NCAA has continued, year-in and year-out, to try to keep kids from celebrating. If a referee can't be trusted to determine when a player is taunting his opponent or excessively drawing attention to himself, then that official shouldn't be refereeing NCAA games. Send him back to high school , junior varsity and freshman games until he figures it out. The rule absolutely needs to be reviewed, and it needs to be reviewed NOW. Not at the end of the season, not after the bowls, NOW.

Come on, ink, you know that's complete bullschitt. The rule is garbage, and it directly affected the outcome of this game. Was he showing up the opponent? Did he make a throat-slash gesture? Throw the ball at the ref or other team? Go through a pre-planned celebration dance/ritual? No. He scored a big TD and celebrated. "But, but. but... he threw the ball over his shoulder. Like WAY WAY over. There's no place in the game for this stuff, damn it. He's obviously disrespecting the game, the other team, and their mamas, and making a mockery of college football." Give me a break. Look, if he taunted the defense, or made gestures at the sideline, or pulled a sharpie out of his sock, then hell yes flag him. But don't turn these kids into robots, like the NFL is doing. The passion and emotion is part of what makes college football great. The kid made a great play at critical juncture in a game. Let him celebrate it.

That might be the most ridiculous thing I've ever read on this board, and that's really saying a lot. Mighty Taco is the bomb. You're not from WNY so you can't understand. Just don't try to pass off KFC and Taco Hell as the ultimate in fast food. KFC 10 years ago maybe. Now - no way. Taco Hell also runs through most people's digestive tracts like a bullet train. BTW, Anchor Bar doesn't have the best wings. It's a touristy place. Go to Duff's for much better wings.

You can leave WNY RIGHT NOW. We don't take kindly to people who talk bad about Mighty, and we sure as hell don't appreciate the blasphemy of saying it's not better than Taco Hell. Say one bad word about chicken wings and you'll be forced to read every page of every Mickey-vs-TSW Jason Peters threads.

I say go the other way - put them in every town and see how many morons it cleanses from the gene pool.

Bottom line is it's a schitty rule that is overly broad in it's definition and enforcement, and in this case they penalized a kid's spontaneous celebration of the possible game-tying score with :02 to go. He didn't taunt anyone, didn't throat slash, didn't throw the ball at a BYU player, and didn't do a previously-choreographed dance routine or stunt. He jumped up and got excited after making a huge play to possibly tie the game. Yeah, he's clearly out of control and has no respect for the game, and needs to be punished.

Life sucks when your reputation precedes you. Get the rep as a selfish, arrogant, me-first player and fans, the media and the rest of the league will point at every little thing as more evidence of your ego and immaturity. Play the game hard, keep your mouth shut and nose clean for much of your career, and people will forgive a little transgression from the greatest WR of all-time. I never heard anything about his lack of professionalism nor failing to be a team player. Besides, the biggest reason he was pissed was he had one pass thrown his way all game. You've got a player like Rice, even on the "back 9" of his career, you find a way to get the ball in his hands.

What a frigging joke that unsportsmanlike call was on Washington.

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It has nothing to do with Internet righteousness. Don't want to deal with that situation? Then don't hang around with "dangerous" people, like the ones who committed the murder. Don't help them get rid of their bloody clothes after they stab someone. Don't make payments to the families of the murder victim.

He has to be one of the most committed community players in the league, if only to offset his involvement in that murder. Again, if you stop at "players should emulate him on the field" then I agree. But there no way in hell that ANYONE should emulate him off the field. Involvement in a lot of charities and community does not absolve him of his role in the murder. Bingo.