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Old 03-18-2007, 11:27 AM   #480
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Originally Posted by molson View Post
The deciding factor is not that "he is going for the ball", if it were, we'd be seeing refs make that call at the end of almost every other game. Guys have ALWAYS been given leeway in that scenario at the end of the game - they grab arms, wrap guys up, no one thinks anything of it. Here, you have a huge size difference, and one of the players falls down. If they seriously win a game with a call there, it's a ridiculously cheap, fluky win that people will complain about forever.

So again, you swallow the whistle because of how it will look to people instead of making the right call?
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