[Junior_G]

There's close and questionable calls in every game, but there's not usually this much whining about it.

If you think the officiating job yesterday was no better or worse than normal, you weren't paying attention.

[dead]

It was no worse than normal, and Rothlesberger was in.

[sinkspur]

If you think the officiating job yesterday was no better or worse than normal, you weren't paying attention.

This was, no doubt, the worst officiated playoff season I've ever witnessed. But, officiating is also bad this season in the National Hockey League, and last year's major league baseball playoffs were also pitifully umpired.

Television brings out these glaring errors, true, but even full-time officials seem to be getting calls wrong a lot more often.

[Mad Dawgg]

"If you think the officiating job yesterday was no better or worse than normal, you weren't paying attention."

First let us disassociate the team names, to get the emotion out of the equation. Does not matter who won or lost.

Then start looking at the point spreads and overlay bad or questionable calls on this info.

It will start to raise eyebrows when you see the results.

I remember AL Michaels would even comment on the point spreads occasionally after something would happen on MNF after a call that seemed to keep the game within the margin.

I remember seeing him interviewed one time and the point spread thing came up and he would not talk about it saying that the league frowned on such discussions.

I am not big into conspiracies but as the years pass I become more and more suspicious of professional sports.