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*J_K_M_A_N WINS* NFL Last Man Standing Pick 'Em 2008

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abrannan:

--- Quote from: Hemi on September 15, 2008, 03:39:46 pm ---It just needs to be reviewable.

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No good, that doesn't protect the quarterback.  He now needs to dive for any ball that may or may not have his arm in a throwing motion, because if it's reviewed and ruled a fumble, then that's a lost posession.  Also, the refs will have to wait for the ball to go dead before blowing the whistle, because that will affect how the other player go after a downed ball.  For example, if the whistle wasn't blown (i.e. the appropriate call), then maybe the scramble for the ball turns out differently because player X doesn't stop when he hears the whistle.  

Hemi:
It's tough, but having teams who lost the game end up winning the game and teams who won, lose,  is not the answer. This is a major flaw that compromises the game. This sort of thing cannot happen again.

shardian:
Oh it can, and it most definitely will. It's the nature of the game. It's why we take the time to watch the game. The NFL is not a life or death matter. It is ENTERTAINMENT. On the entertainment scale, that game was HUGE. People will be talking about it all season. In the grand scheme of things, it is no big deal.

ChadTower:

--- Quote from: shardian on September 15, 2008, 03:31:56 pm ---
--- Quote from: Hemi on September 15, 2008, 03:28:07 pm ---
If it was as cut-and-dry as this case was with the NFL, I would. Also keep in mind the situations are not the same, in that the team who had wrong done to them was not their fault, where as the guy lost his ticket on his own.

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Well lets make it a bit more relevant then. His ticket was 'stolen', and now you are expected to hand over the whole amount.

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Only if it was stolen with 70,000 live eyewitnesses and 5 million more eyewitnesses via television.

abrannan:

--- Quote from: Hemi on September 15, 2008, 03:48:26 pm ---It's tough, but having teams who lost the game end up winning the game and teams who won, lose,  is not the answer. This is a major flaw that compromises the game. This sort of thing cannot happen again.

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There are blown calls in every game, in every sport.  Sometimes those calls cost teams the game.  It happens.  Life will go on.  The game is no more compromised than it was in the days before instant replay. 

Again I ask, how would you alter the rules to make it "fair"?  It's no use complaining about something if you don't at least have an inkling of how to make it better.

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