Fwiw, the NHL uses a 4 official system, two refs and two linesman. FIFA uses 3 for the world cup, one ref and two linesman.
On Sunday, June 27, 2010, Scott Stroz <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 7:21 PM, Vivec <[email protected]> wrote: > >> >> c) Football should be the same from the top level to the grassroots level." > > To me, this is a bullshit excuse. The game is already played > differently on the Wold Cup scale than it is in any 'grassroots > level'. > > As Robert pointed out American Football, Baseball and Hockey (not sure > about basketball) all use instant replay at the professional level but > not at other levels (college, high school, etc). To me, this adds to > the integrity of the game and does not detract form it. Those that > govern the leagues realize that, at times, the officials get a call > wrong, and they use technology to try and get it right. Are these > systems perfect? far from it, but its better than the alternative. > > Basketball (NBA) is played with 5 players on each side on a much > smaller playing surface and they have 2 referees on the court. > Hockey (NHL) is played with 6 players on each side on a much smaller > playing surface and they have 2 referees on the ice. > Baseball (MLB) is played with no more than 13 players on the filed at > one time and they have 4 umpires on the field. > Football (NFL) is played with as many players as soccer, on a slightly > smaller field and they have 7 officials on the field. > > Soccer, with its huge ass playing surface has 1. Its not hard to > imagine how/why so many bad calls occur. > > > > > -- > Scott Stroz > --------------- > You can make things happen, you can watch things happen or you can > wonder what the f*&k happened. - Cpt. Phil Harris > > http://xkcd.com/386/ > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:322066 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/unsubscribe.cfm
