Milt Epstein 26 February 2005 20:20:03 [ permanent link ]
Dave Mikolaitis <mollusk@ufl.edu> writes:
Edward M. Kennedy wrote:
[ ... ]>>>I didn't pick the Gators. I know enough about road officiating in>>>the SEC.>>
The ACC has the opposite problem -- home officiating. Some think>> it's the same thing, just different motivation.>
But nobody complains about home officiating. (The know-nothings that>sit behind me believe that the Gators get screwed at home. Bugs>Bunny has the proper term for them: Maroons. I have spent almost 20>years trying to explain the rules to them, but they see one id-jet on>TV say something like "you have to be stationary to get the charge>call" and it's back to square one.)
[ ... ]
I know what you mean -- I see the same thing at games I go to. The ironic thing is that those maroons are probably a good part of the reason home officiating is the way it is. So who's the maroon?
