FORUM NFL DEATH POOL - Any Interest?

[IHateKeithSmart]

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If you play multiple teams, do you have to declare which team makes which pick? I would think so.

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Yes, you'll have to declare which team each pick is for.

[IHateKeithSmart]

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I am DEF. in! For sure. These things are great!

Please PM me with the cost and who to pay and where ... but yes, I'm in!

I also know that 'jacki' will be in, too...

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Cool. It is going to be a $10 pool (multiple entries allowed). I am going to post an *official* thread tomorrow with all the details, schedule, etc.

[Edginator]

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I would be interested.

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[youtalkfunny]

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The refs made an unprecedented call in the Oakland game which everybody outside of NE thought was bogus and even shocked Tom Brady, and then made the same ruling the following year in a few games so they wouldn't look like hypocrites...

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I never understood anyone who has a problem with that call.

The rulebook describes precisely when it should be called, and Brady did precisely what the rulebook described.

What, the refs should ignore the rules that YOU have never heard of?

Don't be embarrassed that there are rules you've never heard of. At the time, I had never heard of that rule. I was working in a sportsbook, part of a crew of guys who had, combined, about 200 years of experience booking the NFL--we were all at least 30 years old, and had watched the sport passionately for our whole lives--and none of us had ever heard of it.

But this is the league that changes ten rules per year, on average. That's hundreds of rules in my lifetime. I openly laugh at anyone who confidently boasts, "I know the rules!"

I don't think the players know the rules.
I don't think the coaches know the rules.
I *know* the announcers don't know the rules.

But I'm reasonably confident that the officials know the rules.

One last thing: if the officials were trying to "hand that game to the Patriots", couldn't they have helped the offense get a little closer on that final drive, so Adam Vinatieri didn't need to come up with THE GREATEST KICK IN THE HISTORY OF THE GAME?

[McGahee]

I don't remember claiming to be the guru of NFL rules, nor do I recall saying that the game was fixed.

It was not enforced in the spirit of the "rule" - which was why nobody expected the ruling - because it had never been made before.
Obscure rules are obscure rules because they aren't enforced in such common situations. You don't find it the least bit strange that these obscure rules are discovered ONLY during Patriots games? If there are "10 rule changes every year" and "nobody but the refs know the rules" - then surely these kind of shocking obscure rulings that nobody other than the refs know about could/should happen every week. Why don't they?
If those games weren't fixed (I don't think they were) then the Patriots were just lucky as hell. I mean - you won the last 2 SB's in dominating fashion - congratulations - I can give you that. The refusal to admit the painfully obvious fact that they were lucky as hell in 2001 is just mind-bogglingly stubborn homerism.

[junkmail3]

If I didn't do this, I'd just burn my money. So, I'm in.

[razor]

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I don't remember claiming to be the guru of NFL rules, nor do I recall saying that the game was fixed.

It was not enforced in the spirit of the "rule" - which was why nobody expected the ruling - because it had never been made before.
Obscure rules are obscure rules because they aren't enforced in such common situations. You don't find it the least bit strange that these obscure rules are discovered ONLY during Patriots games? If there are "10 rule changes every year" and "nobody but the refs know the rules" - then surely these kind of shocking obscure rulings that nobody other than the refs know about could/should happen every week. Why don't they?
If those games weren't fixed (I don't think they were) then the Patriots were just lucky as hell. I mean - you won the last 2 SB's in dominating fashion - congratulations - I can give you that. The refusal to admit the painfully obvious fact that they were lucky as hell in 2001 is just mind-bogglingly stubborn homerism.

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You need stop posting about this and start thinking it thru a bit.

[McGahee]

Yeah, I never thought about it till I started posting in this thread [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]

Actually - the real irony is that Instant Replay only existed becuase of a gift-wrapped game given to the Pats in 1998 - known as the "just give it to 'em" game when Shaan Jefferson caught a 4th down pass out of bounds a yard short of the 1st down marker in the closing seconds of a game.
IR gets reinstated and they win a SB because of it 3 yrs later. That's the biggest luckbox organization in sports, it's not close, and it's the end of thread.

[West]

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I never understood anyone who has a problem with that call.

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I grew up a Broncos fan, hating the Raiders. But I thought the call was retarded. I honestly don't think there was anyone who had ever played football who didn't think that was a fumble. I don't know how long that rule had been in the rule book, or why that apparently was the first time it had ever come up, but I think it was idiocy that it was enforced. If it was a new rule, was was the purpose of the rule? Why was it needed?

[TheJunkyardGod]

Allright, count me in. I love pools.