I Still Don’t Get It

By: Jeremy | October 5th, 2009

slipnslide After the Texans finished polishing off the Raiders I decided to check in on the Orange. What was the first thing I saw? It was Cam Weaver making an aggressive tackle and receiving a red card. Well, I was watching a Spanish channel so he actually received a roja card. But don’t worry, I’m told it’s the same thing as a red card.

Here are the issues I have with that particular play. First, it almost tempted me to change the channel back to football, which would have been a Cowboys game at that particular moment. So, not wanting to watch Dallas (which may induce spontaneous defecation) I decided to stick with the Dynamo. Second, I do not think that play warranted a red card. It was a yellow at best. I can say that because of the obvious embellishment by Kansas City’s Santiago Hirsig. If he genuinely felt it called for a red card then the play should speak for itself. It wouldn’t be necessary to feign epilepsy as he did. Now, I can’t say he flopped. Weaver definitely tripped him up, that’s why I say yellow, but definitely not a roja.

And what’s up with the defensive posture of the Dynamo website? Below the video of the play, the caption reads “Cam Weaver receives a red card after a hard tackle from behind on Kansas City’s Santiago Hirsig.” From behind? I don’t know what kind of video they were watching, but “from behind” was not in the video I saw. Then, the lone commenter on the site states, “I completely lost respect for Weaver. You go hard, you challenge, you fight, but you don’t try to break the legs (look at replay, he missed his right leg by 2 inches) of an opponent…” Well, I looked at the replay and Weaver gets all ball first, that is until his momentum carries him through to contact Hirsig’s right leg. His foot doesn’t change directions after touching the ball, meaning the ball was his target. He didn’t touch the ball and then move his foot in a leg-breaking fashion towards the Kansas City player. Also, the site’s game review describes it as a “two-footed and late tackle.” That’s a stretch. How can it be late when you make contact with the ball first? And how can it be two-footed when you use only one foot? Unless “two-footed” is in reference to the distance between Weaver and Hirsig when the challenge was made. That makes more sense. (I apologize for the poor picture quality, I’m working with what’s available.) Roja Card

OK, fine, the ref made a bad call… again. Coach Dom claims he made the right call, but I think it was more in effort to move forward to the next game, put the horse shit behind us, and not get fined for having an opinion against the refs and their horse shit call. Even though that particular horse shit will linger into the next game while Cam serves a suspension for “doing his job,” as Brian Mullan said.

But, despite being short-handed for most of the match, the Dynamo still managed to claim a point and lock up a spot in the playoffs.

Playoffs? Are you kidding me? Playoffs?!? (Sorry, I always hear that in my head after someone says ”playoffs”.)

And congrats to Luis Angel Landin on his first of many Dynamo goals!

FOREVER ORANGE

Dallas sucks.