Originally Posted By: danthaman1980
Originally Posted By: NHHEMI
One of the links given earlier updating my original link on this said an Assistant Coach had them do it because the Ref made some bad calls. In no way is that justification for such a vicious blindside attack. They should have walked off the field rather than do that and reported him later. Don't care if the Ref called them every name in the book either. No call for what they did.
Absolute shame that a coach would put two of his athletes in that awful position. Back when I played HS football (though I only played one year), I absolutely feared some of the coaches (then again, back then coaches could do things they'd never get away with these days!).
Sorry to get you guys all hyped up over my 'got what was coming to him' comment, I only meant to make the point that there was probably more than enough blame to go around. As more details emerged, I think that turned out to be the case. Hopefully appropriate consequences will be faced by all the parties involved, and they will all learn their lesson.
I think what is getting people upset by your comments, and me included, is you seem to keep saying the Ref is/might be to blame or partly to blame for what happened to him. Your most recent comments seem to say the Ref did in fact get what was coming to him. You also seem to want to excuse those 2 players and blame the assistant Coach now as well. Seems everyone is to blame except the two players in your eyes and I do not understand that? It is crystal clear in that video that those two players purposely and with intent attacked the Ref from behind. No excuse for it.
I just can't understand how anyone can watch that video and think anything but those two players need to go to jail. Unless something happened off the field totally unrelated to that game that was vicious and violent( like the Ref assaulting one of their Mother's as an example )there is just nothing that could have happened during the game that could justify those two players attacking the Ref like that. Nothing. I don't know what details have emerged that you think validate your earlier comments about the Ref possibly getting what was coming to him( if that is what you are saying )but nothing I have read does.
The ONLY blame to go around here is on that team. The 2 players who attacked the Ref and the Assistant Coach who told them to do it for bad calls on the field. No one else deserves any blame and the 2 players deserve the Lion's share of it.
The coach may be a loser but those 2 players chose to do what he told them to when they knew it was wrong. They should have told him to get bent and walked off. I will never accept that they were afraid of the coach. That is yet another excuse of what they did and giving them a pass. They were both old enough to know that was not only wrong but a crime and they did it anyway. Now they need to face the judge.
I don't have a link to provide but they were talking about this on the local sports talk channel the other day up here. It turns out that coach actually told 3 players to attack the Ref and one refused and walked off. THAT player did the right thing. The other 2 made a choice to do what the coach said and ignore right from wrong and now they should pay heavily for it. So should that coach.
Blame the two players and that coach but the Ref is not to blame at all. I don't care what he said( racial slurs and the like - if he even did )or how many bad calls he made the attack on him was violent, vicious, and totally uncalled for.
