Posted on 12/15/2014 4:42:56 PM PST by Michael.SF.
The only way to keep your team from getting bad calls is to have someone the caliber of Saint’n Manning on your squad.
Bad call but the Seahawks would have won anyway. That is all.
You have me beat, I only go back as far as Montana.
CBS wants Brady vs. Manning in the AFC title game. Networks need ratings, and ratings mean money. You don’t see bad calls against teams led by Peyton Manning and Tom Brady.
I think NFL officials are full time.
What would help is to remove all the secrecy. Make them explain their calls in post game press conferences just like coaches have to explain their decisions. It humanizes them and would really release a lot of the suspicion.
Agree fully with both of you
PM me your address, I’ll send you my extra tin foil. I think your reception is a bit foggy.
lol Perhaps tutus in team colors would get it done.
I hate the 9ers, but it was a bad call and turned the momentum of the game.
I am NOT NOT defending this particular call...BUT BUT BUT: There are a few problems with that macho over reaction knee jerk: A: QBs are very exposed after they release passes. Kickers are too right after they kick. They are not in an attack position. It's not at all like plays where both players are bracing for the hit. THE SECOND problem is that for all of this macho bitching, people like what? They like plays when NO ONE touches the ball carrier, or receiver, etc. They like long skill play touchdowns. It's called ESPN Top Ten.
Glad you agree with what I stated in my post, thanks.
Since they work 1 day a week, most refs have other careers.
You could pay for full time, since the league has money, but tough to sit around the rest of the time.
So you did not see the play, did you?
Yes idiot...read what I said....I said the call in question was awful....I was talking about the bigger point. Sorry to overestimate your reading comp..... I won’t do it again.
‘Member the Niners alley oop play from the 1950’s? Y.A.Tittle to R. C. (Alley Oop) Owens!?
You simply said you were not defending it, which is not the same thing.
I suggest you not respond back as there is no point in talking to you with the attitude you showed from the get-go.
Have a Merry Christmas.
Star players have always gotten preferential treatment from officials, happens in every sport, regardless of the team those players play for at the time. It’s not right, I don’t like it, but it’s just the human nature of the refs (who are very human) playing out. It’s not some conspiracy.
The tuck rule is a bullshit rule. The NFL has several bullshit rules, including the tuck rule, and the bullsh-t on whether to count the play or make them replay it on a false start penalty, and the worst of all: the “break the plane for a nano second” rule for a ball carrier outside the endzone versus the possession a receiver must maintain in the end zone.
Yeah, the NFL has lots of problems. They have written stupid rules that make officiating much harder than it should be. But everyone is making zillions of dollars - they’re not rigging anything for TV rating revenue. Thats just silly.
Ed Hock a Loogee has had so many “suspect” calls over the years I am convinced he is the NFL version of Tim Donaghy.
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