“National Felon League.”
Yet people will flock to the stupid game show each and every Sunday.
I used to love the NFL. It’s only a step up from WWE Wrastlin’ these days though. The rules anymore allow for almost any penalty to be called on any play. The refs can control the flow of a game w/o looking shady.
I kind of lost interest in the game show after the Steelers “won” the “Jerome Bettis Farewell Game Show” of the 2005 season. Seattle got shafted. I pretty much stopped watching the Steelers after that farce (and I’m from Pittsburgh ... I’m supposed to bleed black and gold!).
I should have been clued into the joke status of officiating about 3 weeks before that Super Bowl ... the refs tried hard to hand the Steelers’ second round playoff game against Indianapolis to the Colts (for Peyton Manning’s legacy’s sake), but the Steelers managed to hang in there and won after what’s-his-name shanked that field goal attempt in the final seconds after that Bettis fumble.
Prior to that disaster, Troy Polamalu intercepted the ball with ~3 minutes left ... it was an interception to anyone watching but the blind and the game should have ended right there ... however, the refs called it back and all of that “drama” unfolded.
I kind of think the 1990s was the last good decade of pro football ... either that or I hit my 30s in the ‘00s and couldn’t care less about it anymore :-). It just seemed that they started to pile on the rules and made the game more of a gonzo-spectacle right around the turn of the century. I know ratings are up, but the NFL just seems like an echo of what the league used to be like.
I think that the refs do call penalties to determine who they want to win. I feel like they done it for the Patriots for years.
I think this years super bowl was a complete joke. The last 4 super bowls have been.
- All 4 featured a black QB
- All 4 had some major controversy before the game. Ray Lewis and his antler spray. Seatle Richard sherman going crazy to that female reported. Deflategate. Manning and his PED usage.
- In all 4 games, the side that had the controversy won the game.
- In all 4 games, the side that who had the most gambled on lost. Things that make you go hmmm.
I can go on forever about this, but I won’t watch again after that exceptionally racist halftime show this year.
Oh, Tom Brady cheats, but who cares.