Posted on 11/26/2017 6:07:40 PM PST by huckfillary
I think it's time to require football refs and officials to hold post-game press conferences. After all, more often than not, it is they who have some 'splainin' to do. After each game, let the refs explain to an adversarial press every bad call.
If the head coaches have to explain their winnings and losses, why don't the refs have to explain their miscues?
I would even go further. I think the names, addresses, and phone numbers of every official should be posted on the stadium scoreboard and your home TV screen.
Referees and their explanations a big part of why I haven’t watched for almost 3 years.
I think they should dress like rodeo clowns, put a little color into the proceedings.
You still worried about a stupid game being played by thugs? There is no hope for some I guess. Really most of us here could careless anymore what happens in the world of professional football. So why not take these kinds of discussions to a sports chat board and quit wasting broadband space here.
you’re bitching because the brass fittings on the titanic are dull. it’s all going down, man.
dumb ass officials are the least problematic in that thug-infested spectacle. there was a fistfight on the field today over jewelry. that’s a problem. griping about the officiating is just missing the point.
How about doing away with refs and let the thugs kill each other.
I am sure most refs call it straight. I suspect that if a coach or player rubs them the wrong way, they might be tempted to call a really close one the way he wants it to be.
I have seen some pretty bad mistakes but only twice have I seen a ref blatantly cheat. Oddly both were in the same game and so obvious that some action should or maybe was taken against him.
It was Alabama vs. Penn State and both calls were by a ref with ties to Penn State. They made the difference in a national championship game so they had a permanent impact.
Once he ruled an Alabama TD reception out of bounds when he fell maybe six feet in bounds. He did just the opposite on another play. Now six feet may not sound like much but it is actually easy to tell if a player is six inches out or in. They usually even get it right when it is only an inch or so.
They were brawling on field somewhere today
In the CFL they can challenge penalty calls. But it doesn’t make a lot of differences. Watched the Gray Cup tonight. (Canadians don’t kneel) And as an ex-NCAA and NAT Fed official, I can appreciate the problems they have.
Officials aren’t perfect. They’re never going to be. And while many have suggested that the officials have gotten worse than ever, the truth is that both the speed of the game and improvements in technology have passed them by.
First thing is that these are not professional officials. They do this as a side job. They deal with a mixture of barely defined contact, the considered protection of certain players at certain times, rules that leave a lot to the imagination, working in weather conditions you wouldn’t let your dog go out in, with people that can outrun them, create unseeable mountains in the pit, and try to get away with anything they can while the players and coaches make every effort to make them the fall guys of every play they fail at.
Sound like fun? I loved it. But I’m not sure I could work at their level that is so fast and takes the average official about three years to get used to. Definitely not now that my health is gone.
Anyone who says officials cheat is being foolish. You might find a call you think an official missed, but how many dropped balls did your wide receivers do? How many quarterback passes airmailed everyone? Kicker miss something? Fumbles? Defensive end get bye and the tackle grab a hand full of jersey? And the officials have to call those right also.
I can promised you that if a team executed every designed action of a play right, every time, they would win 900 to 0. And officials don’t have the advantage of slo-mo, split screens, and half a dozen camera angles like you do. They have a split second to make the call to the best of their ability from the best angle they could get, and that’s it. And they probably have half a dozen things they are looking at in that mix.
The players make the game. The officials try to do what they are told by the league. Know what that is? And you won’t either. Pro football is not sport. It is big money entertainment. So they change the rules each year to put butts in the seats and try to figure out how to keep the players in superstar status even when they beat up women, get caught with weapons or dope, or driving 150 MPH DUI. How many officials have you heard about doing those things?
Make their names and addresses available? That is insane. It opens the door for some drunk fool to open fire at someone’s house because his favorite team didn’t win? And some official’s kid gets killed because the fool did it at a closed house. That’s just plain idiotic violence and warrants tthe gas chamber. But the kid’s still dead isn’t he? Boy that was worth a replay, wasn’t it. Check ESPN tomorrow.
rwood
I was only twelve years old but I remember that debacle vividly.
When the biased ref ruled that Gothard’s winning TD catch was out of bounds, I angrily threw my shoe at the TV and almost broke it. I was livid.
Bama fans still seethe when reminded of that game. If I’m not mistaken, the offending ref had a nephew who played for Penn State. He should have been disqualified from officiating that game because of his bias.
It was commonly believed that the refs in the old PAC 6 and PAC 8 would cheat for the top teams against the lesser ones.
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Sounds like what happens now in the PAC 12, Big 10 and SEC!
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