No matter how many times I explain it to my wife?

Question

I cannot get her to understand the offside rule
Would she make a good referee

Answer 1

Come on, how can you expect a woman to understand such things?

After all these years, they are still trying to learn how to read a map.

Answer 2

Obviously you don't understand it well enough yourself. Or, you lack the necessary communication skills. Explaining complex things in simple terms is a true skill. Most trial attorneys hone this ability.

In ice hockey, play is said to be offside if a player on the attacking team enters the attacking zone before the puck itself enters the zone, whether it is being carried by a teammate or otherwise sent in across the blue line. When an offside violation occurs, the linesman blows play dead, and a faceoff is conducted in the neutral zone.

There are two determining factors in an offside violation:

Attacking players' skate position: One of a player's skates is not in contact with or behind the blue line of the attacking zone before the puck enters that zone.
Puck position: The puck must completely cross the outer edge of the blue line to be considered inside the attacking zone for the purposes of offsides.
Note that the puck must enter the attacking zone for offsides to be called; a player being over the line does not result in an offsides until the puck crosses the line, and that a player cannot put himself offside, such as by carrying the puck in while skating backwards.

Though the basic offsides rule is always the same, there are different rules for the situation when the puck is shot in while a player is offside, but the defending team gains control of the puck.

With immediate offside, play is dead the instant an offside violation occurs. (Used in USA Hockey youth leagues)
Delayed offside allows the defending team a chance to move the puck out of the zone. The play remains offside until the puck enters the neutral zone. Play is blown dead if the defending team does not attempt to move the puck forward. (Used in the major North American leagues from until 2004 (AHL, except 1986-96) and 2005 (ECHL, from 1996-2005), and NHL before 2005 rule changes.)
Tag-up offside is a variation of delayed offside. In a delayed offside situation, if each attacking player who is offside "tags up" by making skate contact on or behind the neutral zone, the delayed offside becomes negated. (Used in Hockey Canada, the IIHF, USA Hockey junior leagues, some North American professional leagues, adult leagues, and the NHL from 1986-1996, and once again after the 2005 Collective Bargaining Agreement.)
Play is stopped immediately if a player from the attacking team touches the puck in the attacking zone while he or any of his teammates is offside.

Offside is also used to refer to a player lining up on his opponent's side during a faceoff. There is no penalty for this, though the faceoff may not be conducted while a player is offside.

Answer 3

But haven't you noticed that even the players themselves don't understand the offside rule either. You see them raising up their hands whenever someone has scored even a genuine goal. I think you should tolerate your wife as they are so many of us who are confused about how one can be ruled offside.

Answer 4

The offside rule is just an urban myth - noone really actually understands it. The question is - how good does she look in shorts? And can she blow hard ... on a whistle?

Answer 5

I once saw this explanation of the off-side rule - to aid the understanding! (Apparantely!).

You're in a shoe shop, second in the queue for the till. Behind the shop assistant on the till is a pair of shoes which you have seen and which you must have.

The female shopper in front of you has seen them also and is eyeing them with desire. Both of you have forgotten your purses. It would be rude to push in front of the first woman if you had no money to pay for the shoes.The shop assistant remains at the till
waiting.

Your friend is trying on another pair of shoes at the back of the shop and sees your dilemma.She prepares to throw her purse to you.If she does so, you can catch the purse,then walk round the other shopper and buy the shoes.

At a pinch she could throw the purse ahead of the other shopper and, *whilst it is in flight* you could nip around the other shopper, catch the purse and buy the shoes.

Always remembering that until the purse has *actually been thrown* it would be plain wrong to be forward of the other shopper.

Answer 6

You need to show it on a piece of paper a couple different times. Show her what offsides is, and what it isn't.

Answer 7

Dear Worrybean - my partner (who has tried to explain this rule to me more than once) reckons this is an excellent description, especially as I now understand the rule! Thank you. I hope you get 'best answer'.

Answer 8

Yes she would and probably a better one than a lot of them out there.
I am a woman - I understand the off side rule and it angers me every time I go to my sons football matches to watch ameteur refs (usually dads) to say they are off side when they are cleary NOT!!!!!

Answer 9

If she doesn't understand, then I sincerely doubt she'd make a good referee.

Answer 10

why do wifes need to understand football ,damn football,we make great referees if u got kids just watch her in action hehehehe

Answer 11

Probably, I have seen some so called professional officials that don't understand it either