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Referee makes funny call during football game.

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mag1kr3zin : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

mag1kr3zin

69 votes NegativePositive

360 days 10 hours ago...

Definition giving someone “the business”:
Ah yes, an easy one! “Giving him the business” is an expression I snatched out of pro football history. Back in 1986 during a game between the New York Jets and the Buffalo Bills someone committed a rare kind of violent foul. The interesting twist here was that in a sport heralded for it’s harsh physicality, this play involved Buffalo’s quarterback! Of the dozens of different positions one can play in this game only three are granted any kind of significant protection by the rules of the game and quarterback is one of them.

It would have been the sweetest of irony if the quarterback, Jim Kelly, had been the one commiting the foul but poor Jim was on the receiving end. After being sacked (tackled to the ground),Marty Lyons, the Jets player, began repeatedly punching Jim in the head! Although it’s clearly against the rules there is no specific entry in the rulebook against “kicking that guy’s ass”, so the presiding referee expressed himself in the best way he knew how. He clicked on his mic and told the crowd this:

“Number 99 of the defense, after tackling the quarterback, was giving him the business down there!”

Hilarious. The line immediately became part of National Football League history.

srvaughan121 : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

srvaughan121

11 votes NegativePositive

360 days 8 hours ago...

best ref call ever!

KUDZU : LVL 36: VP 4.4: said:

KUDZU

36 votes NegativePositive

360 days 4 hours ago...

lol he was the number 69 as well 5/5

jimbillywho : LVL 35: VP 4.3: said:

jimbillywho

14 votes NegativePositive

360 days 3 hours ago...

^lol. i didn`t really understand until i read mag1kr32n`s explanation, but now i do. 5/5

istya : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

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359 days 15 hours ago...

Man...these guys will use any excuse to stand around doing nothing...

GoliathTall : LVL 21: VP 3: said:

GoliathTall

0 votes NegativePositive

359 days 15 hours ago...

Surrreeee did!

EntropY* : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

EntropY*

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359 days 14 hours ago...

He sounded like Dave Chapelle.

tkamfinch : LVL 19: VP 2.8: said:

tkamfinch

13 votes NegativePositive

359 days 13 hours ago...

Number 69 was giving him the business.... ahh classic. And no... he definitely did not sound like Chappelle.

wasoha : LVL 22: VP 3.1: said:

wasoha

-5 votes NegativePositive

359 days 13 hours ago...

I`m no football fan so I`m confused. mag1kr32n`s explanation makes sense but I don`t see how that was happening in the game. I saw someone get tackled. That is what football is about. Where was the foul?
Yeah, I`m sure I`m being an ignorant idiot, but I really just don`t know what was going on there.

mag1kr3zin : LVL 29: VP 3.8: said:

mag1kr3zin

4 votes NegativePositive

359 days 12 hours ago...

In the bottom left of the screen at :03 you can see the player in red pushing and hitting more then usual,just for a second,most of the hits were off camera

daftcunt : LVL 31: VP 4: said:

daftcunt

1 votes NegativePositive

359 days 7 hours ago...

Thanks for the explanation, I would suggest you post a copy to the ever so in love with themselves commentators who obviously do not understand shit!

pud51 : LVL 32: VP 4.1: said:

pud51

-3 votes NegativePositive

358 days 21 hours ago...

The original, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Zkom-6wMnw

Jacke Jackel : LVL 30: VP 3.9: said:

Jacke Jackel

-4 votes NegativePositive

358 days 21 hours ago...

what? what just happend?

PhillyB : LVL 15: VP 2.4: said:

PhillyB

3 votes NegativePositive

358 days 20 hours ago...

^He gave him the business.

cavey : LVL 34: VP 4.2: said:

cavey

0 votes NegativePositive

358 days 16 hours ago...

awesome i am playing on sunday, i am going to try and make the ref call it :p

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