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@icemantbi

 Fully agree.  

You have a ballot.  You have an envelope.  You take the ballot from the envelope.  You put the ballot in one place and the envelope in another.  There's a challenge afterwards.

The result is procedurally a court won't hear the case and therefore merits don't matter.

@Midnight1

Well they wouldn't be in the politics forum on covers anyways.

@pjlvio

it's not that, I just don't understand what a highly trained veteran official saw to throw it and then decide nah.

@IntenseOperator

 Explain?

When did I ever say that?  I've been patently clear in my personal position on this.

Nah.  Typical NFL.  Snooze fest 1h and barn burner tomorrow.

Ha ha, same here.  Sorry to duplicate topics

So Mr. Smith was precisely 5 yards away and threw the flag.  Then I guess changed his mind?

Was it supposed to be holding, face mask, or throwing the QB?

Finally, second time this week we saw a QB blasted in the face with no call.

No sour grapes here, I'm on the Colts but I'm perplexed by that.

@ActionMagnet

 To that point last 3 superbowls landing on 3.

@vanzack

 All in good fun, it'll right itself.

Almost, hold fast.

@nikisongo

Best line my buddy from Aruba says:

"My apologies sir, English is my fourth language".

Reality of the new NFL and the running clock. 

Coaching and analytics have mastered the science of what they need to run the clock out and get the win.

Much less about pride and just grinding out the win.  Blame never ending crop of talent creating competition and shorter earning years. Blame having to play an extra game.  Blame the investment cost of players.

Also note that subjectivity in rules makes games closer to get more live bets at juiced lines and prices (in the US where the printing press is)

@daytonavol

 Fully agree.  

Me neither and it's pretty ugly

I implore you to watch the last 30 seconds of the Tennessee 1st half.

Exhibit A - Tennessee gets a first down and the clock doesn't stop.  2 seconds run off.

Exhibit B - Appears to have first down and they mark woefully short.  More importantly no review.

Exhibit C - Another first down on the QB scramble and again not stopped on time.

Finally, what in the actual hell at the very end.

On to the next one and it's no sweat, but cannot say shenanigans weren't in play there.

I get it, I'm a jerk. 

But playing spread it's -.20 units vs. +1.65 playing ML.

This and it's a coin flip so the teams don't matter, give me the + money on a top 5 team.

You need 3 of 4 to profit, a split loses you money.

Play on the ML and you need 2 to profit.  Work smarter not harder.

@smellybunty

With a $42 filing fee, oh its happening.

The law appears silent on the matter, so let's find out what the court has to say.