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This story just breaks your heart. I feel sorry for him. Having to live with all of this hate and having no-one to back him up on it? Sad. Just sad. I don't want to be too personal, but I know how hopeless he feels right now. Hopefully this story goes to show that you can't let one bad moment or mistake in life define who you are as a person.
Quote:This story just breaks your heart. I feel sorry for him. Having to live with all of this hate and having no one to back him up on it? Sad. Just sad. I don't want to be too personal, but I know how hopeless he feels right now. Hopefully this story goes to show that you can't let one bad moment or mistake in life define who you are as a person.
Mike McCarthy called him to express support. He did not want him to feel so bad about it. Unfortunately, Packers fans gave the back judge who signaled touchdown death threats.
Mistakes are had in judgement calls. Its extremely frustrating for fans but nothing calls for what the fans did to both him and his co-workers.
It's the role you take when you accept the job and every ref out there knows this. You are going to make the calls you make and live with the consequences...especially when you are on national t.v. officiating two Super Bowl caliber teams. Not to say the overreaction from fans and whoever was right but it's not surprising. After bottle-gate in Cleveland nothing is surprising.
Refs in any sport have it tough.
They can only make half the fans happy on any call, whether it's correct or not.
And then there's the whole reversal thing, where the angry fans become happy and the happy fans become angrier then the angry fans were when the call was first made.
I'm sure Cowboy nation is going after the ref with the Dez Bryant "no catch."
Quote:lol give me a break
As someone who has dealt with loved ones battling depression, you come off as an ignorant jerk. You clearly have no understanding at all of mental illness.
Really sucks that this guy is experiencing this junk. People suck.
I feel bad for him. I was institutionalized twice for severe depression and attempted suicide back in 2007. Anxiety, depression- both I've lived with all my life with success. But with some pretty jacked up life circumstances I was bending until, finally, I broke.
I really wish people didn't see mental illness as such a taboo thing. I would say if it were more 'accepted' more folks would actually get treatment they need. The one good thing about Obamacare is mandatory mental health coverage was added. It will help those willing to get help to actually do so because insurance covers it. Not much to do about those who won't due to the stigma.
I'm glad this fellow is getting the help he needs and is willing to talk about it. Maybe it will help some make the decision to do the same. That's why I talk about it. I hope in my willingness to be open about it, it will help someone else.
Quote:As someone who has dealt with loved ones battling depression, you come off as an ignorant jerk. You clearly have no understanding at all of mental illness.
Really sucks that this guy is experiencing this junk. People suck.
+1
Quote:I feel bad for him. I was institutionalized twice for severe depression and attempted suicide back in 2007. Anxiety, depression- both I've lived with all my life with success. But with some pretty jacked up life circumstances I was bending until, finally, I broke.
I really wish people didn't see mental illness as such a taboo thing. I would say if it were more 'accepted' more folks would actually get treatment they need. The one good thing about Obamacare is mandatory mental health coverage was added. It will help those willing to get help to actually do so because insurance covers it. Not much to do about those who won't due to the stigma.
I'm glad this fellow is getting the help he needs and is willing to talk about it. Maybe it will help some make the decision to do the same. That's why I talk about it. I hope in my willingness to be open about it, it will help someone else.
Thank you for sharing your story with us americus. I'm glad that you didn't take your life in 07 and are still here with us today. I can only hope and pray that I don't have to experience that kind of despair and hopelessness in my life. You're a strong person.
We all mentally ill. We Jag fans.
Quote:I'm sure Cowboy nation is going after the ref with the Dez Bryant "no catch."
Dean Blandino cheered them up by saying the competition committee will review the rule that overturned Dez Bryant's catch.
I feel bad for him too, especially because he got the call exactly right.
Quote:We all mentally ill. We Jag fans.
I identify with that. Lol.
Quote:I feel bad for him too, especially because he got the call exactly right.
No he didn't. Jennings clearly had sole possession of the football before Tate got his hands on it. The definition of a simultaneous catch is both players catching it at the same time, not both players ending up with the ball.
Quote:Dean Blandino cheered them up by saying the competition committee will review the rule that overturned Dez Bryant's catch.
That still doesn't change what happened.
Quote:No he didn't. Jennings clearly had sole possession of the football before Tate got his hands on it. The definition of a simultaneous catch is both players catching it at the same time, not both players ending up with the ball.
This is the way i interpreted it as well... It was a bad call but it doesnt excuse the treatment he recieved by any means.
Interesting that both of the controversial calls involved Dez Bryant. I felt the officials were severely derelict, because after the call was made in both games, Dez Bryant ran onto the field without a helmet. Automatic 15 yard penalty, which in the first game would have given Detroit a first down and maybe changed the outcome. Neither penalty was called, which is a travesty - a clear unsportsmanlike violation - TWICE - and neither time was it called. Is there an exemption for LOOK AT ME wide receivers that doesn't apply to other positions? Bryant showed himself to be a low character individual with little regard for others, especially his teammates. His antics should have cost them the Detroit game. Maybe the ref's call on the Fail Mary was payback.
If somebody called me about a death threat. ld tell them to come knock on my door.