"I can't tell you what I said to the ref about the block," Pecora said.
But in this case, the older and wiser group could learn some valuable lessons about how to respond to getting screwed by the refs--about not losing the insight that the season is long and that players and teams who learn from their mistakes, bounce back from the bad calls, and continually work on their game plans are the ones who win in the long run.
Refs forget about the new way games will be called a few weeks later.
"Mannequin" ref is about public perception @BenedictBrogan: Hilary Mantel describes D of Cambridge as 'mannequin' and 'without character' in LRB.
The ref messed about for a bit, Van de Kerkhof went off and got some padding put on his arm and the game got under way.
10.47am: Jonathan Higham has an interesting point about refs: "A former PSL (the local football league here) referee, Dr Errol Sweeney, now living in Ireland, was on Metro FM, a local radio show here in South Africa and had some really interesting insight into the world of referees.
One of the refs was talking about his fantasy team, like 'McCoy, come on, I need you for my fantasy,' ahhh, what?!" There was a referee controversy even before the majority of Week 2 games got underway on Sunday.
The only obvious conclusion that can be reached about the affair, at least until we hear from the refs and the NFL about how they balls came to be deflated, is that the NFL needs to tighten up its rules on game balls.
An additional specialised form of adhesion occurs during malaria in pregnancy, in which IEs adhere to syncytiotrophoblasts to bring about placental sequestration (Ref. 14).
Based upon these approximations and the extinction coefficient of TSCQ (ε461 = 6600 M 1 cm–1, ref (34)), complex IV contains about 0.7 enzyme equivalents of TCSQ.
