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Blogs > hotfun_1966 > Adventures in Life

Why good rules (and their enforcement) matter: introduction  

hotfun_1966 57M
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1/10/2016 12:26 am
Why good rules (and their enforcement) matter: introduction

This is the introduction to a series of posts. Post links will be added when the articles are ready, and this introduction will also be expanded. Right now, I am just getting my initial thoughts written.

Part 1: In the course of sporting events

Part 2: In the course of human events
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I have been promising to write about crappy sports officials for a few years now. This year's pee-poor<b> performance </font></b>of NFL officials takes the cow pie for stinking to high heaven!

The corn frosting is last night's AFC playoff game between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. Two times, Bengals defenders delivered perfectly legal shoulder pad-to-shoulder pad hits on Steelers receivers, only to be wrongly penalized for Unnecessary Roughness. But Steeler defender Ryan Shazier gets away with a blatant helmet-to-helmet hit on Bengal running back Giovani Bernard that caused a bogus turnover and knocked Bernard out of the game? And what the heck is Steeler linebacker coach Joey Porter doing on the field for an injured RECEIVER (Antonio Brown, the second legal hit mentioned above), cussing out the Bengals defense and causing the totally bogus bonus "brush up" penalty on Adam Jones, and Porter is not likewise penalized?!?!?

WTF?!? WTF?!? WTF?!?

Read Rule 12, section 2, article 8 of the NFL rule book regarding such hits and see how inconsistent the officials were in its enforcement. Thus, did the officials give the game away to the unworthy Steelers. Enough said on that for now.

There is a significant part of every society that thinks breaking rules is OK. However, once that slope slides out from under you, there is no society left, only chaos. Who is more out of control, the Bengals defenders, or the Steelers players and coaches who get away with holding and grievous bodily harm?!?

This series aims to explore why good rules/laws are important, as is the will and wisdom to consistently, correctly, and fairly enforce them.

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