I agree...We have the technology to easily fix blatant missed calls like this. Really REALLY bad year for the NFL refs...They just dramatically altered the SB. Now lets see if they can screw it up too.
After watching both games there were bad calls that went both ways. And yes it is very possible that there were calls that impacted the eventual outcome. Hopefully the NFL gets things figured out.
I think they need to make calls review-able by coaches challenge. Not procedural penalties or anything like that, but on those critical calls/no-calls where there is film clearly showing the opposite of what happened on the field of play, coaches should be able to throw the flag. It should also be the only challenge-able calls under two-minutes. And if the referees already reviewed the play (since it fell under the two minute stipulation) but a coach still wanted to challenge... then involve an official in the booth or even league office.
@Lyman Just thought I'd let you know, my daughter has a soccer tournament this spring in Sandusky. Same place as last time. No official time or date yet. But if you're available, would love to get together for lunch or something again.
That's the place. The tournament is tentatively scheduled for May 4th/5th but we might be coming up on Friday afternoon/early evening sometime....just depends on when the Saturday games are scheduled.
Ok guys, non-football question. I am wanting to get my son a custom baseball glove. He's 14, 5'10'', and has taken a shining to 1b. I spent a little time today building some for fun to see what I could come up with. Does anyone have any insight on custom gloves? I checked out the regular names: mizuno, rawlings, marrucci. I found one that I liked, 44 brand..but I don't really know much about it. He really liked the 44 bc it gave an option for an embroidered state outline..so he had an embroidered Ohio and "kid from Akron" since "just a kid from AKron" didn't fit.
In my opinion, the best gloves available are Nokona..Personally, I don't think it's close. They last 3 times as long as their counterparts, before productive breakdown starts to show up. If he's 14 now, a glove might be getting out of shape by the time he's a Sophomore/Junior in high school, the Nokona will last throughout his high school career and possibly into a college career if he has one. I have bought a lot of gloves over my lifetime, the usual Mizuno, Rawlings, Wilson..Not store shelf mind you, the upper tier gloves. I have never purchased one from 44, so I can't give you an apples to oranges, but I have had (1) catcher's glove, (1) infield glove and (1) outfield glove from Nokona and they have all 3 went well above and beyond any other glove I have ever owned...mind you, these aren't all used by me. The infield and outfield gloves were my daughter who plays softball. She is mainly an infielder, but also plays some center field. She is 16, her infield glove is 3 years old and looks brand new after (2) middle school seasons, (1) high school season and over 200 games of travel softball. I will say, the most important thing is, learn how to care for the glove!! Too much oil/steam will ruin a glove, as will not enough TLC. It's a fine line, but well worth the investment of research on knowing how the leather looks and reacts and knowing how/when to work your glove. Just my two cents...
and just like that he didn't make the team. SMH. Now scrambling trying just to get him onto any team. City league is booked and they're tight about the districts. Select/Travel ball is going to be the options...been that route before. Nothing will be close, probably 45 to an hour drive. Still going to check out Nokona. It sucks that we've moved a lot for my work and my kids are paying for it. Either rec leagues down here don't advertise on purpose, or they're just inept. You just have to "know" when sign ups are. They closed in mid-December...smh (again).
I totally agree with Irish here. Proper care of the leather will make the glove last a long time. I had a Wilson glove I purchased in the eighth grade that I used for baseball into HS and then for rec league softball for about 15-years after high school until someone walked away with it. It was well used but showed very little wear.
That's too bad Dogside... Just make sure he keeps playing, just one season off these days and it's tough to catch up to his peers. It is so difficult for kids these days, I really feel for them. The travel route isn't necessarily the best route, but at least in baseball it's still pretty competitive. In softball, it's become so watered down, you are either on an elite team or one of the 20,000 other teams in the state. There are usually about 20 tournaments per weekend to choose from, which makes it nice if you don't want to travel far, but at the same time, if you are on an elite travel team it will be you and one, maybe two other elite teams and 13-14 "other" teams that lose by 15 runs per game. The girls have fun winning, but they don't necessarily get better, in fact they form bad habits because 70% of their games are against glorified rec teams. Rec leagues have suffered immensely too because each community used to have several teams, but now girls that aren't ready for travel ball are being recruited as bodies to fill out the watered down travel teams and don't play leagues...Baseball still has some competitive leagues throughout the state. You should be able to find a "travel team" that strictly plays in one of the more competitive leagues instead of traveling every weekend to tournaments.
A sexy woman sits down next to a guy drinking alone at a bar. She whispers, "You look like you could use a little fun. For $100, I'll do anything you ask me to in three words or less." The man takes a drink of his beer, then takes out $100 and says, "Paint my house."
It is 1am when a drunk man at the bar decided to call it a night. He gets up to leave the bar completely drunk, tries to take two steps and collapses miserably on the floor. He says to himself: "Well, my poor old man, you’ve had a bit too much .... let's crawl to the exit to breathe some fresh air, it'll be better afterwards.” He crawls outside and he holds on to the hood of a car with the help of his hands, stands up and tries to take a step .... once again collapsing miserably. Remembering that he does not live very far away, he decides to crawl home. Upon arriving at his door he tries to enter the house making as little noise as possible so as to not wake up his wife. He grabs the door handle, gets up, opens the door leaning his full body on it, he tries to walk to his room while remaining silent but ..... after taking a step he collapses again ... so slowly he crawls to his bed where he falls asleep. The next day his wife says to him: "you were at the bar again last night, weren’t you?" "How do you know ?" "They called this morning to say that you forgot your wheelchair again… "
BTW, if you are looking for comfort straight out of the box, and eliminating the "break-in" period, ya can't possibly go wrong with the top Wilson baseball gloves....
