What fight? I live in Atlanta and just like the game of football to be ruled fairly.
The most common quote I've heard from a lot of places is to the effect that you (refs) don't take points off the board by calling incidental contact, especially in a big game like a Super Bowl.
The refs are human, they showed us that during the game, they called it like it was a routine home game during the season.
That's the whole thing. You are sad and upset because your home team, the falcons, didn't make it to the Super Bowl. Didn't even make the playoffs. And you want to blame the officiating and the so called "favorite picks" and it is obvious to you that the falcons are not a "favorite pick".
What kind of cheese do you like?
"The most common quote I've heard from a lot of places is to the effect that you (refs) don't take points off the board by calling incidental contact, especially in a big game like a Super Bowl. "
And I've read over and over that if the receiver pushes off the defender to create separation and give himself more room to catch the ball it is called offensive pass interference-and if he does it three feet from a referee with an unobstructed view of the situation, he's going to get the flag every time, Super Bowl or no Super Bowl.
BTW, I've never heard the "especially in the SB" idea before-it's your belief that the officials ought to be a little more lax with the rules because it's the SB? Yeah, that sounds fair.