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From: scorpion@titan.rice.edu@rice.EDU (Vernon Lee)
Newsgroups: net.social,soc.women
Subject: Re: Team Sports, an observation
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Date: Tue, 16-Sep-86 12:23:31 EDT
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In article <1127@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU> melissa@mit-athena.UUCP (Melissa Silvestre) writes:
>There was one point in one of the NFL games, in which the receiver stopped
>running after he stepped out of bounds, even though the referree had not
>whistled the ball dead yet. The commentators said they figured the runner
>just assumed the ref saw it, and they said something to the effect that
>he should just keep on running because you never know what the refs might
>miss.
>
>If there's one morality pro sports teaches, it seems to be that "it's
>only wrong if you get caught." I don't watch college sports, so I don't 
>know if it is similar at that level.

I know as a soccer player, about high school level my coaches start
saying things like "if you hand the ball, don't act guilty, maybe the
ref didn't see it."  I'm told in professional soccer that players do
everything illegal they can get away with.  One coach taught me how
to hurt someone badly when the ref wasn't watching...

>Melissa Silvestre (melissa@athena.mit.edu)


scorpion (Vernon Lee Jr.)

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