The American Spectator

home
ADVERTISEMENT

The Spectacle Blog

Re: A Democratic Call

Wlady: Didn’t that same game also involve a bizarre ruling from the officials where they called a “no play” after what was clearly an off-sides on either Indy or Pittsburgh? Clearly one of the teams was guilty – either the defense was off-sides, or the offense had drawn them off-sides. The officials (not sure if it was Morelli) called “no play,” which I don’t recall ever seeing before in such a situation. Maybe they could have explained it better by citing “the evolving standards of penalty that mark the progress of a maturing sports league …”

topics:
Sports

About the Author

Paul Beston is associate editor of the Manhattan Institute's City Journal.

http://spectator.org/blog/2006/01/18/re-a-democratic-call-1

ADVERTISEMENT

SPONSORED LINKS

Special Feature

Better that we become a nation of choosers rather than beggars. Our symposium on choice from the May, 2012 issue:

A Time for Choosing

James Piereson

The Road from Serfdom

Stephen Moore and Peter Ferrara

FLASHBACK TO: 1984

Clip of the Day

ADVERTISEMENT