I can't think that's true, surely, apart from people within a mile or two, the curvature of the earth would mean that almost all the population would be lower down?

I don't think you know what lower down and higher up actually is, person who is not Mick.



[size=50I also think the explanation would be worse than explaining momentum to John Senior. [/size

They'd need to keep themselves pretty fit if they did, I think? Unlike players, referees don't get much chance of a break during games.



I can't see why anyone would want to do the job, to be honest - poisoned chalice from start to finish. Thank heavens some actually do.

What about those in aeroplanes, hot air balloons & space craft more than 2 miles away?



*Edit - and don't most Bulls fans think the earth is flat?

They still spotted the forward pass.

If you look at this forward pass situation from a quantum mechanics viewpoint, its all quite simple.



The ball, being a (albeit rather large) particle, can clearly be in two places at once. So it probably was.



And it is impossible to observe both the position of the ball, and its velocity and direction, at the same time. As the touchie so ably demonstrated.



Schrödinger's cat can explain more fully.

That is very true. You can add in the words "If in the referee's opinion" before almost every rule in the book, from knocking the ball on to touching down, dangerous tackles, offsides and all the rest. All through the book, the rules mention what are ostensibly, objective incidents which are made subjective by being in the ref's opinion. Not sure how you can change that though....

I want that father & son duo who the camera focussed on in the seats to explain it to me in song.

I bet you can't prove that the light goes out when you close the fridge door though?



Well, not without resorting to benefit of the doubt

I'm not asking for change.

The thing IS: is there a light actually there, if there is no-one there to see it?

It's what Morrissey sang about isn't it?