Four Ravens fined for abuse of officials

[Rack]

I'm a b-ball official. So I prolly know a bit more about what an official has to deal than someone who hasn't.

Pwned!

I've officiated BB games and Pop Warner football games before. There goes your theory.

 

[theogt]

Yes, it does, especially for those of us already prone to baseless conspiracy theories.

I think you're confusing the conspiracy theorists with those that complain of the hubris exhibited by the league.

 

[Kevinicus]

So....who fines the league when they publicly criticize the players?

 

[dogberry]

If a player wants to harshly criticize a referee, he should let the reporters know that he is willing to comment off the record. Saves the pocketbook and really annoys the League.

"An unnamed corner back for a team that played New England thursday asserts that he was repeatedly called racists names during the game." That won't get me a job with the New York Post, but it starts a fire.

 

[BrassCowboy]

Again, you don't have to tell your boss that it's "crap." You don't have to crumple the paper. You don't have to be mean spirited at all. Simply saying they made the wrong call can get you fined.

That's odd to me.

Here's a better analogy. Say you're a high school teacher. And you don't like the way the overnight janitors are doing their job. Perhaps they're not emptying all of your trashcans.

Well, you decide to go to the principal and make a complaint about it. Or perhaps you decide to discuss your complaint with other teachers, and maybe even some students. Then the principal fines you. Would that not seem strange?

Why would a high school teacher complain to students about their school's employees? What good does that do except to reflect badly on the school. Before you say its not the same thing, remembe you are the one using this analogy.

What those players did was go a step further than your analogy in going public AFTER the game.

No one is saying they cannot complain, but their is a way to go about it so that it does not hurt the product.

If you owned a business selling computers, and an sales rep went on public tv complaining about a new production process that he felt was not good for the business.His complaint may be valid, but how do you feel about him going on public tv with his complaint. Would it not have been better for him to go to you with his concern. His public complaint would hurt the very business that he works for.

 

[tyke1doe]

You seem to have trouble both understanding the English language and conveying very simple thoughts in a very simple manner.

I understand the English language very well. I taught an English course in college.

Care to try again?

 

[Rack]

I understand the English language very well. I taught an English course in college.

Care to try again?

I feel sorry for your students.

 

[YosemiteSam]

Does anyone else think it's odd that an organization fines its members for criticizing it?

The NFL is a company. To get off with just a fine is nothing as they can do alot worse.

 

[The Patriot]

They needed to fine the players because they can't have every guy who loses a game calling the league crooked. What if somebody from another country read the Ravens remarks and didn't know the whole story? He may have gotten different ideas. Besides, Ravens players were making threatening motions toward the officials like they were going to fight them and that's just unacceptable.

 

[theogt]

I understand the English language very well. I taught an English course in college.

Care to try again?

Community college doesn't count.