{"id":322,"date":"2006-09-18T09:40:58","date_gmt":"2006-09-18T14:40:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/?p=322"},"modified":"2006-09-18T09:44:54","modified_gmt":"2006-09-18T14:44:54","slug":"football-in-oregon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/18\/football-in-oregon\/","title":{"rendered":"Football in Oregon&#8230;.."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Not being a sports-nut to speak of, I didn&#8217;t even tune into the <strong>OU-Oregon<\/strong> game until after halftime, but I have to agree with friend of mine over the on-sides kick&#8230;&#8230;  The question wasn&#8217;t whether an <strong>Oregon<\/strong> player had touched the football before it went 10 yards &#8211; The question was how does a Ref explain an <strong>OU<\/strong> player, that was not in the pile of players, walking up and handing him the ball while they were still unpiling?&#8230;..  The Refs were right about one thing &#8211; a defensive player did touch the ball alright &#8211; He recovered it as it squirted out of the pile!&#8230;..  That&#8217;s what I refer to as a <strong>GREEN<\/strong> call by the Ref&#8217;s&#8230;..  They had to be paid for that one because nobody&#8217;s that blind&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Now, don&#8217;t get me wrong, I&#8217;m get tired of all the <strong>OU<\/strong> fanatic stuff that goes on during football season, and I was actually rooting for them to lose a game early in the season so I wouldn&#8217;t have to listen to all the <strong>&#8220;We&#8217;re No. 1&#8221;<\/strong> crap day-in and day-out, but, this time, it was definitely a case of <strong>&#8220;Blind Justice&#8221;<\/strong>&#8230;..<\/p>\n<p>Check out this <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jpro7254.com\/onside_kick_001.wmv\">VIDEO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>I wonder if there is a big market for braille TV&#8217;s in the great Northwest?&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not being a sports-nut to speak of, I didn&#8217;t even tune into the OU-Oregon game until after halftime, but I have to agree with friend of mine over the on-sides kick&#8230;&#8230; The question wasn&#8217;t whether an Oregon player had touched the football before it went 10 yards &#8211; The question was how does a Ref [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=322"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/322\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=322"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=322"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.mrambler.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=322"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}