At 3:09 PM -0800 11/16/96, Klein, Steve wrote:
> Facetious or not, this should NEVER have been posted.
 
Agreed...I understand the point SteveB was trying to make, but felt it
could have been done in a better way.  If I were the official mentioned, I
wouldn't be happy to see my name in connection with an incident that never
occurred.
 
> The referees have a responsibility (I'll repeat that for my friends Bill
> Beagan, Dave Fisher and Jeff Weiss) -- THE REFEREES HAVE A RESPONSIBILITY --
> to protect the better players in the league.
 
I'll only add that they actually have a responsibility to protect all of
the players, not just the better ones.  But in the end, no matter how
poorly a game may be officiated, that's still no excuse for some of the
infractions that players occasionally commit.  No referee forces a player
to hurt another.
 
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