Would you please explain to me why you think this is “very hypocritical”?
I remember getting annoyed at one of his columns. He went on a digression about dark matter and dark energy and how scientists are finding new elementary particles that they didn’t know existed and yadda yadda yadda. The digression ended with
Yes, this clearly proves that science doesn’t have the answers and that there is a nonmaterial realm and that God exists and so on. Look, I read your column for football, not for cheerleader cheesecake (I can get that on team webpages) and definitely not for snide implications about religion. I won’t miss TMQ.
I meant a link to the TMQ column—which have been purged from the ESPN.com site (hence the D)).
If you do find it there are several people out there who would love know the address.
I wish the archive was still there so I could check, but I thought he said something about the rule being different with regards to the endzone (for safties?). Mind you, I can’t remember the official rule and for the life of me, all I can find is a rules digest that doesn’t have crap on stuff like that.
ElwoodCuse- you’re wrong.
Easterbrook ranted about the knee going down with the ball still out of the end zone, then the player lunging the ball across the plane and having it called a touchdown. Similarly Maddox’s knee went down in the end zone and he lunged the ball out after that; the play was a safety (Easterbrook lauded the correct call).
He was right to ignore you, because he was right in the first place.
Ahh… That does sound correct.
Regardless, does anyone know of anywhere online that has the rules, or are they only available if you buy the book?
I’m with Elwood on this one. He occasionally put interesting stats in his columns, but he wasn’t in the least bit entertaining and was often annoying. Although his views on violence/women aren’t exactly hypocritical, they’re quite unusual and IMO dumb…