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MCNABB: IGNORANCE OF RULES MAKES ME A TREND-SETTER
Posted by Michael David Smith on November 19, 2008, 1:39 p.m.
Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who said after his team tied the Bengals on Sunday that he wasn’t aware games could end in ties, said today that he doesn’t feel bad about his ignorance.
When a reporter asked McNabb today if he regrets not knowing the rule, he answered, “No. Because I think 100 percent of everybody in the league knows now. So if I’m kind of a trend-setter, then I’ve kind of set the trend.”
So McNabb thinks he deserves credit for putting his own ignorance on display, because the very public way he’s been corrected has informed his fellow players? And he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with his ignorance being publicly displayed?
“It didn’t make me feel bad at all,” McNabb continued today. “I was truly being honest. And the thing about it is, now other people are saying they didn’t know it either. Am I wrong for that? No. Should I have known that rule? There’s a lot of rules that coaches, officials, players don’t know.”
There may be a lot of rules that players and coaches don’t know. We’d like to think there aren’t a lot of rules that officials don’t know, but let’s assume for the sake of argument that McNabb is right about that, too. But a rule as fundamental to the game as how overtime ends? McNabb’s ignorance of that rule is absolutely inexcusable.
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Posted by Michael David Smith on November 19, 2008, 1:39 p.m.
Eagles quarterback Donovan McNabb, who said after his team tied the Bengals on Sunday that he wasn’t aware games could end in ties, said today that he doesn’t feel bad about his ignorance.
When a reporter asked McNabb today if he regrets not knowing the rule, he answered, “No. Because I think 100 percent of everybody in the league knows now. So if I’m kind of a trend-setter, then I’ve kind of set the trend.”
So McNabb thinks he deserves credit for putting his own ignorance on display, because the very public way he’s been corrected has informed his fellow players? And he doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with his ignorance being publicly displayed?
“It didn’t make me feel bad at all,” McNabb continued today. “I was truly being honest. And the thing about it is, now other people are saying they didn’t know it either. Am I wrong for that? No. Should I have known that rule? There’s a lot of rules that coaches, officials, players don’t know.”
There may be a lot of rules that players and coaches don’t know. We’d like to think there aren’t a lot of rules that officials don’t know, but let’s assume for the sake of argument that McNabb is right about that, too. But a rule as fundamental to the game as how overtime ends? McNabb’s ignorance of that rule is absolutely inexcusable.
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rofootballtalk.com
