Catch Me If You Can

One thing that I thought Frank Jr. pulled off amazingly was when he was going to meet his fiance at the airport. He obviously observes that she told he police and it was a trap. Even though he knew that the airport was swarming with cops, he still walks right through the front doors past them all. If you were wanted and saw that FBI agents and cops were in a specific place, the last thing that you would want to do is walk through that place. You would go a different way. But no, Frank goes to a high school and gets 8 young women to distract him while he walks through the front door. It was just brilliant. The cops all know what he looks like and also knows he has been trying to fly for PanAm. The odds of getting through were slim to none. But he pulls it off by taking the focus off of himself and put on 8 young beautiful ladies. He picked the 8 most beautiful women to persuade the men from the FBI to look at them. Nice Job.

Why argue with a ref?

One thing that I have been thinking about is rhetoric when it comes to sports. A ref or an official gets to make the calls whether or not things were legal or any fouls were made. They get the final say as to what is going on. So, when bad calls are made, what is the point of arguing with a ref? Too many times when watching a football game or any other sport and you see a ref make a call, you will always find someone who wants to argue with him. No mater if the ref is right or wrong, he gets to make the call and it is pretty hard to overturn that call.

Now before we had playback and reviews, we never questioned the referees and their calls. Even when we did question them, it is not like they were going to change their mind. So what is the point of having people get kicked out of games for arguing with referees who won't change their mind? Why put in all the work, when deep down you know they are not going to change the call?

Last week I saw 3 men get kicked out of a water polo game because they believe the ref made a bad call. They were trying so hard to persuade the ref that they did not deserve that call and were trying so hard to get him to change their minds. Too many times though, when you see people arguing with ref's, they are fighting and not arguing. When that happens, of course the refs are going to get angry and warn them and what not and possibly going to kick them out of the game too. So why do we do it when we know what the outcome is going to be? Can a referee really be persuaded?