Thread: Show the NFL how you feel. Boycott Sunday games.

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.

Originally Posted by SERE Bear

I am normally tuned to games all day Sunday wether 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.

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.

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.