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Message: <blockquote data-quote="neilfii" data-source="post: 408145" data-attributes="member: 3821">I read your post as well and I only agree with you in part. Apparently you did not read mine. In order to disqualify Lee two things were necessary: 1. the infraction had to be flagrant, and 2. the official declaring the disqualification must have observed the entire action.First of all, as you point out, it was flagrant "in [your] opinion" an opinion which I do not share.Second, it is highly unlikely that the ref "observed the entire action" or I doubt it would have been an ejection: a 15 yard penalty, absolutely, positively, without a doubt a fifteen yarder.A disqualification in a case like this is a "judgment call." Was the official clearly wrong in disqualifying Lee? NO because in his apparent judgment the infraction was flagrant, and he thought he observed the entire action. Was the ejection mandatory, I don't think so. Read the definition of flagrant, and watch the video -- had he observed the entire actionI doubt he would have made the same decision; that is except for the fact and this is what I think was the deciding factor the refs knew about all of the pre-game hype and wanted to make certain that things never got out of hand. As I said above for that I commend them.Bottom line: did they have to eject Lee? NO, was there sufficient justification for it? Yes.</blockquote>

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