Linesmen

But that's why someone came up with the idea of linesmen and referees. ❋ Unknown (2010)

The obvious answer is that nobody -- save, perhaps, a few defensive linesmen and a winning quarterback with Bible verses on his eyeblacks -- actually thinks that supernatural players joins the game in response to pre-game supplications. ❋ Valerie Tarico (2011)

Given that the majority of football spectators are actually watching on television and can clearly see what the referee and linesmen clearly can't, it seems anachronistic that football has not introduced the video referee, even if it does go against tradition and it does * feel* wrong in a sentimental way. ❋ Unknown (2009)

He can regularly talk to linesmen — "they're really straight up" — as well as hear plenty he can't report, like the "mucho trash-talking" in this year's Calgary-Chicago playoff series. ❋ Unknown (2009)

One of the linesmen was German and reported the infraction to the chair umpire. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But one of the linesmen had further inflamed things and was pursued off the pitch, out of the gate and down the road, Keystone Kops-style by angry players. ❋ Unknown (2011)

But this is the first account we've received of a referee sending off one of his linesmen. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Dean, an ex-marine, combat veteran, known as the toughest linesmen on the "GI-Bill Squad," -- the toughest football team in Harvard University's history -- wasn't tough enough to field that question. ❋ Robert F. Kennedy Jr. (2011)

I've covered the NHL for a very long time, and I have a high degree of respect for NHL referees and linesmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

We don't seem to be getting much luck from linesmen at the moment, the United manager said. ❋ Unknown (2011)

Gattuso as good as punched Joe Jordan in the face, and one of the linesmen clearly saw it. ❋ Unknown (2011)

"I remember when I was a young boy, 1 April fell on a Saturday, so the Football League decided to create a 'hilarious' jape by sending referees and linesmen with thematically linked names to the same game," recalls Robin Tucker. ❋ Unknown (2011)

The on-ice officials are two refs and two linesmen. ❋ Unknown (2010)

If the Patriots make the Super Bowl, everyone in America would be outraged to see owner Robert Kraft trot out to midfield before the game and hand a $1,000 bill to each of the linesmen and field judges. ❋ Bill McKibben (2012)

Extra [linesmen] had to be [called in] from other depots after the storm, with all the [conductors] down all over the region. ❋ CaptainSpaghetti (2008)