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To: Jon Cave who wrote (80124)	11/27/2000 1:07:12 PM
From: kodiak_bull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 95453

Jon, I have contacted the NCAA head referee for the most recent Notre Dame game and, after discussions with him and our legal counsel, find I must take serious issue with your statement: "Many say that many of the touchdowns that ND scored were done so illegally because penalties were not called on those plays <G>." The head referee's comments, from a sworn affidavit, are as follows: "[The number of touchdowns and/or penalties] are not the legal grounds on which the Notre Dame victory should be overturned. The overturning must occur because Notre Dame came out several times, in key moments, in double split formations (a.k.a. "butterfly formations") which confused the opponents' secondaries so that they were disenfranchised of their God-given and archetypically American right to fully analyze the coming play and make appropriate adjustments. Had Notre Dame not used such butterfly formations, can anyone doubt that the result of the game(s) would have been different? While a butterfly formation is not, per se, illegal, and while everyone has known of Notre Dame's proclivity for the butterfly formation, from time to time, it was inherently unfair to use a butterfly formation in a close game with a litigious opponent. Children are taught that, in football, every play counts. How then can we certify a Notre Dame victory without counting every play, even the ones which did not occur, but which might have, in a more fair and just Democracy? And another thing, the crowds cheering for Notre Dame were slovenly and middle aged and their arrhythmic clapping and atonal singing of the Notre Dame fight song amounted to no less than the passions and desires of the mob. There can be no place in America for such passions and desires." Joseph Lieberman, Head Referee, sworn affidavits dated 2000 A.D. November 7, 8, 9, 10, 11 and also various blank copies awaiting execution when necessary.