You have my sympathy. The deteriorating quality of the officiating over the past decade, as well as the nagging suspicion I have that there are other things besides play determining the outcome of these games, for me has taken most of the joy out of watching pro football.
The NBA has always been terrible about calling plays differently for their stars than for the rest of the league, and it has really hurt them in the long run. In the NFL, I think it's just the fact that they have part time officials. There's so much money in the NFL right now that they probably don't care. Wonder what the ratings were like for this Super Bowl. I didn't pick up much interest in it from a lot of people. However, the Super Bowl isn't really for football fans. It's a show to get people that normally don't watch football to tune in.