From: jjonsson@alexandria.lib.utah.edu
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Instant Replay
Date: 11 Sep 92 19:12:05 GMT
Organization: Marriott Library, University of Utah

In article <vamplew.716168400@probitas> vamplew@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Peter Vamplew) writes:

>In <1992Sep10.140553.5880@PacBell.COM> jpglori@srv.PacBell.COM (John P. Gloria) writes:

>>In article <vamplew.716108281@probitas> vamplew@probitas.cs.utas.edu.au (Peter Vamplew) writes:
>>>
>>>I don't see this as an argument for instant reply. Consider this situation.
>>>I'm a receiver with the same contract, I have 14 TDs etc. Late in the last 
>>>game of the season I shed my cover and run wide open in the end-zone where
>>>the qb overthrows me by six feet. We win the game but the blown throw costs
>>>me $50,000!!
>>>
>>>Would you suggest that we have an Instant Rethrow rule so that I can get
>>>another shot at making my bonus? I hope not. 
>>>
>>Talking about asinine logic!  Your are stretching it beyond
>>ludicrous in YOUR comparsion.  Your's has no merit.  The other
>>poster's logic made more sense and has some merit.  Please, get
>>real.  No one is going to have a Rethrow, unless there was a
>>penalty!

>Let me try again. I'm not seriously suggesting a Rethrow rule (I've got
>to remember to start including smilies when I'm being sarcastic). I'm
>not saying that IR is good or bad or anything. What I'm trying to say is
>that the argument about bad decisions affecting players wages isn't IMHO
>a reasonable justification for IR.

>Say I'm a running back with incentive clauses for the yardage I gain. A bad
>spot of the ball might mean that I just fail to reach the yardage I need
>to get my bonus. So should IR be applied every time the ball is spotted?
>(Note: sarcasm again).

>There are plenty of good reasons for having IR, just as their are plenty of
>good reasons for not having it. The impact on players pay-checks is not
>one of them. (Semi-serious-stupid idea for the day - if the coach wants to
>complain about a decision such as a disallowed TD after the game, then the
>team should have to back him up by recognising it as a TD from the point of
>view of the player's incentive clauses) 

>Second S-S-S idea for the day: Anyone who complains about the standard of
>NFL officiating should be made to sit through an average AFL Aussie Rules
>game. You'll see more bad calls in that than in an entire NFL season.

>>>Peter Vamplew - IS Fanatic :-)
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^
>Oh well, at least we agree on one thing :-)

>Peter Vamplew - Still fanatic after all these years!

>--
>Peter Vamplew     Dept of Computer Science, Uni of Tasmania
>"The second hand moves very quickly, the minute hand moves
> a bit more slowly, and the hour hand moves not much at all"
>- results of a time and motion study by Reg the Slayer


Jeff Jonsson
Marriott Library System Support, University of Utah.
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