I used to like basketball. I don’t anymore. No special reason although I’ve long thought that the refs are way too involved.
I used to like basketball. I don’t anymore. No special reason although I’ve long thought that the refs are way too involved.
Same here. The refing is way too subjective. I’d watch my daughter play in high school and I used to say that I didn’t care if they won or lost, as long as they did the best. The only time I got agrivated was when I felt they were being challenged more by the refs than the other team.
Thing is, I see sports as just another human activity. It means when a ref clearly makes an intentionally bad call I want him-her to suffer for it. And battery is battery no matter where it happens, which is why I found myself on a soccer field in spite of my daughter’s coaches protests that the ref would take care of it. I asked, “Is the ref a cop?”
I started believing that the refs were picking the winners. Tim Donaghy cemented if for me. Donaghy admitted to doing so deliberately, and sometimes without a financial incentive, "just because". I suspect that NFL officials do the same thing, unconsciously. I've seen games were the officials seemed determined to give the game to the Pats, some that they seemed determined to give it to the opponents. Think "tuck rule" and yesterday's game. Flacco fumbled on his own three, and the zebras called it a forward pass.
I don’t think most people watch basketball for the score. I think they watch it for those hard to score shots or fancy moves.