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I am normally tuned to games all day Sunday whether the Bears play or not. Early, afternoon and Sunday night I always watch the games.
Next Sunday I am not watching unless there is a deal to bring the real refs back in place. I encourage everyone else to do the same but I'm not holding my breath. I've had enough and don't want to support the product the NFL is putting out there on the field.
they already have their billions from their deal with Directv, and ad time has already been paid for. Only real way to take money out of their pockets is to not buy merch, but even then...wont affect their bottom dollar much.
The networks will apply plenty of pressure if ratings dip. The reality is that ratings won't dip because a vast majority of people will watch no matter how bad it gets and that is what the NFL is counting on.Quote:
Originally Posted by Jimmors
Well I like to watch too much not to but when I get some time I'll post some of this weeks blunders. Not only are they missing obvious calls (how 'bout the face mask on Finnegan after that 4th Q completion to Marshall) but they still don't even understand the rules. They gave SF two extra timeouts in their game against Minny and the Detroit/Tennessee game I was watching was horribly officiated.Quote:
Originally Posted by SERE Bear
One official through a flag for a face mask then before they even showed a replay he waived it off and picked up the flag. Then they show the replay and the face mask was obvious. It was was obvious to begin with and he was standing less than ten feet away from it.
On a down field completion a Detroit player was flagged for a helmet to helmet hit when I don't know how he could have avoided it. The receiver curled up as he caught the ball which brought his helmet down into the area near his midsection the LB was targeting. It was totally incidental but OK incidental or not the helmets did connect even though the LB was not leading with his. So they review the play to see this then come back and determine that the penalty would be enforced but that the pass was incomplete which reversed the call on the field.
The only problem was that there was no indisputable evidence that it wasn't a completion. In fact it seemed to confirm that it was. These guys aren't even competent to judge a replay or understand the rules regarding their review. It was like they decided the penalty call wasn't correct but since they could pick up the flag they would call the pass incomplete so instead of it ending up as a 30 yard plus play it would only be a 15 yarder caused by the penalty. It was ludicrous.
Then I saw another one I'm still trying for figure out and I'm sure the coaches are too. A flag for defensive holding on a running play tacked onto the end of the run. Since when can't you toss the receiver out of the way to get at the ball carrier on a run. It's not even a penalty yet that's what they called! These guys can't ref a HS game for cryin' our loud. LMFAO!
They are in WAYYYYYY over their heads when it takes them 7 minutes of air time to make a simple call like they did on Finnegan's fumble after that pick. One quick look tells you the ground caused the fumble so the play is dead right at that spot. There was no need to even look at what happened after that and whether or not Hester fumbled too. What took sooooo long to figure that out? I think any of us could do that at home as soon as we saw the replay.
The replacement refs do not bother me since i have seen the regular refs botch calls over the years. I can remember last years when Charles Woodson threw a punch at a player right in the ding ding and the ref was right there to make a call and didn't. Belicheck for years has had calls go his way and last night was awesome seeing the patriots lose. Lets not forget the famous coin toss a few years ago that screwed the steelers. The refs are human and they will miss calls but there are some times when they make the right call and people don't give them credit.
If your point is about union refs v not union refs its going to get lost, most of the people now day could careless about unions. And if its because you think the new refs aren't as good as the old refs, most feel there about the same. So either way yoour thread just doesn't work for most.
The only real difference I notice is how quickly the refs are to make the call. Once the final call is made, the replacement referees are about on par or slightly worse with the old refs on bad calls. I saw the same two timeouts call happen last year in some other game I do believe and the replacement referees were not in those games.
I'm watching regardless.
The NFL and the reg off's are both to blame on this, trying to put pressure on one w/out applying the same pressure on the other is disingenious to the root problem.