the trivia team at my corner bar named itself 'phantom flag' after a blown pass interference call from some october nobody can agree on, and every thursday the bar's resident retired ref, a man named walt who has not been paid to blow a whistle since the first bush administration, objects to the name. out loud. with a laminated rulebook. he says the call was correct and the team is slandering a profession. the team says the call cost them a season. neither side has ever been to the stadium in question. i have watched this argument run forty-one weeks and it has never once moved an inch, which is the most honest thing any fan dispute in this league has ever done. you all think you want a ruling. you want a walt. someone sitting in the corner, certain and unpaid, telling you it was the right call while you pay for the next round. we finished fourth in the music round. walt says that's also on us