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Title: Massachusetts Wings on the field?
Post by: Getting Fat on October 29, 2010, 01:23:31 PM
http://rivals.yahoo.com/highschool/blog/prep_rally/post/Massachusetts-announcers-lose-it-over-blown-back?urn=highschool-280644

ignoring the bad call, laughing at the announcers, do they teach you wings to be on the field at the snap?
Title: Re: Massachusetts Wings on the field?
Post by: rickref on October 29, 2010, 02:56:01 PM
Sideline and crowd control there is suspect.

More proof we all can have a bad day.
Title: Re: Massachusetts Wings on the field?
Post by: Amir on October 29, 2010, 04:08:11 PM
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Nuts and bolts, we got screwed!

Classic quote right at the end there!
Title: Re: Massachusetts Wings on the field?
Post by: txmustang68 on October 29, 2010, 11:39:28 PM
LOL.  I just saw this, and came to post it.  What a classic!  Really jacked up call, however.  But, when it doubt, it is forward...
Just would be better if some peeps were in the correct positions to make the call? 
But, thanks for the great call, mr announcers!  LOL....love it.
Title: Re: Massachusetts Wings on the field?
Post by: LarryW60 on October 30, 2010, 11:50:10 AM
Surprising as it may seem, we don't ALL blindly do what the NFL officials do.  Our mechanics have the wings at least 10 - 15 yards outside the nearest player, which means we can be on the field - especially if the ball is on the far hash mark.

The LJ in this case "fornicated the French Poodle".  You can see him putting the whistle to mouth and starting the incomplete signal before the camera pans away.  I won't go as far as the announcers did and say a touchdown was stolen, though. The intended receiver was closest and obviously made no move to the ball because the whistle had blown.  Green might have still recovered, but White probably would have had someone there as well.
Title: Re: Massachusetts Wings on the field?
Post by: HAshleyTX on October 30, 2010, 03:36:52 PM
It was a backward pass by five "yaaads"
Title: Re: Massachusetts Wings on the field?
Post by: Morningrise on November 01, 2010, 02:16:04 PM
The intended receiver was closest and obviously made no move to the ball because the whistle had blown.  Green might have still recovered, but White probably would have had someone there as well.

But if that fact had dawned on these announcers, they wouldn't have gotten their Youtube fame.

From now on, every time a fumbler is ruled down, and a defender idly jogs the ball into the end zone for no reason, I want the announcers to assume that's realistically what would have happened, and flip out accordingly.