SORE WINNERS
Re: Editor's Note A
Football Hero:
"Miami defeated Ohio State, a referee's personal foul notwithstanding." By definition, sour grapes. If you play the game so that a referee's call makes any difference you have no more legitimate claim to have won than crying that the coin toss was unfair.
A conservative e-publication, heir to fifty years in the
cultural wilderness, should know better.
-- Steve Malynn
Who wrote this "Miami defeated Ohio State, a referee's personal foul notwithstanding"? A myopic Miami Hurricanes fan or a blind man, er, person?
The game should have never gone to overtime thanks to the incompetent referees. Watch it again this weekend on ESPN if you can recover from your denial by then and specifically check out the last OSU drive prior to overtime with the incomplete pass call on 3rd down. This was, in fact, a complete pass made in bounds by the talented Mr. Chris Gamble. And, oh yeah, he was interfered with too -- which was not called either.
With that first down Miami's punt return and the game-tying
field goal would have never happened.
-- Michelle Heisler
Proud OSU Buckeye
Champion by proxy
Wow, talk about perpetrating a myth. Miami never even would have
had the opportunity to get to overtime had the refs not botched the
call on Gamble on third down in the last minute of regulation. Not
only was there holding on the play, but Gamble caught the ball in
bounds nonetheless. There are plenty of bad calls to go around --
why focus only on the one that hurt Miami? Finally, the official
himself has said that the PI flag was for the holding before the
ball got to the receiver, something the replays never even show --
it was not thrown for the tussle between Sharpe and Gamble when the
ball arrived. Ohio State pounded the crap out of Miami, how can you
say Miami beat Ohio State -- call or no call????? I'm disappointed.
American Prowler usually doesn't give credence to
whiners.
-- Yvonne Lundwall Twiss, Esq.
Columbus, Ohio
Your statement, "Miami defeated Ohio State, a referee's personal
foul notwithstanding" was a stupid remark, for several reasons.
First, Ohio State won the game. Second, no one would have
questioned the call by the referee if he had thrown the flag more
quickly. If you had done your homework, you would have known that
the reason he threw the flag late is because he was trying to
decide whether the call should be defensive holding or pass
interference, not whether a foul had been committed or not. Third,
and probably the stupidest thing about the remark, is that you are
insulting the 2nd largest university in the country, which not only
happens to have more alumni than any other university, but is also
one of the most conservative colleges in America. You are
alienating a large part of your audience, including myself. Unlike
liberals, conservatives do not believe in rewarding stupidity. You
may have eliminated a substantial part of your audience with one
stupid remark.
-- Louis Burwell
IN COMMUNICADO
Re: "Long Time No Hear" letter in Reader Mail's Dividend
Divisions:
"Unsigned" asserts: "There has been no communication between Pyongyang and Baghdad for the past 22 years. Period."
Except, I suppose, for the visits by Saddam Hussein's son to Pyongyang for the purpose of buying WMD technology.
There is a difference between formal diplomatic relations and
"communication" -- as anyone less naive than "Unsigned" would know
from the persistent back-and-forth between the United States and
Cuba over various issues.
-- Kevin McGehee
Coweta County, GA
LOTT RULES
Re: The Washington Prowler's Santorum's
Sacrifice and Peter Hannaford's Slipping
Into Minorityhood:
To Trent Lott: Please remember that despite the traditional
manner of Senatorial address, Daschle, Leahy, Kennedy, Jeffords and
the others are not really your "friends". Soviet style discipline
dictates that all personal loyalties must be suppressed in the
Party's pursuit of power and attainment of ends--and the ends
justify all means. All of these "friends" are ready to line up and
stab you in the back; as they, of course, already have many
times.
-- J. R. Wheatley
Peter Hannaford's "Slipping Into Minorityhood" was a good article and I liked his optimism.
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