I swear I wasn't planning on doing this, but I have to because these guys are god awful so now I have too.
This is partially yes because there were more than a few drives extended on my patriots last night with phantom illegal contact or holding or pass interference calls. But mostly because these guys are making the NFL so frustrating to watch that I find myself actually changing the channel, not to another game though but to something else.
I don't know what it is that makes these refs so god awful but it brings me to wonder what is so unacceptable about the refs offer that the NFL won't accept it. What piece of the new agreement between the refs and the league is worth the integrity of the game. If it's money I'm gonna lose my shit, being a ref is a thankless job, if they want a few extra bucks, GIVE IT TO THEM. When you see guys like Heyward-Bay getting there heads knocked off by safeties and no flag thrown, we have an issue. If the NFL is so concerned about player safety, they should probably get the real refs back so that when those hits happen teams are penalized so they won't happen again. If i'm Ryan Mundy i just got away with murder and will probably do it again.
On that note Cris Collingsworth said it best last night "these guys are doing the best they can, but its just not good enough." Valid point sir, now why can't the NFL see that. What if it gets to the point where players don't want to play anymore. What if guys feel so unsafe and feel they put all the work in to have games decided by 75 yr old man who can't even remember the number of the guy he just threw a flag for. I wouldn't want to play in that league. It's a joke right now.
Take the Broncos/Falcons game Monday Night Football last week. The 1st quarter took just over an hr because of scrum after scrum, refs needed time to get the calls right. The first half was over 2 hr 15 min long. That's absurd, in what backwards society to people have time to watch one 5 hr football game on a Monday night. Isn't that the point on MNF to have 1 game for 3.5-4 hours then people get go to bed or do whatever. But to have that game literally go all night is ridiculous.
Now i love the people who think these refs are just getting nit picked because we need something to complain about. Ummmmm nope they are throwing stuff at us to complain about. A ref tripped a player with his hat yesterday. Were not even sure why the moron threw his hat but he did and it tripped Kevin Ogletree in the end zone. What if Romo threw him the ball and he couldn't catch it because he was on the ground after having a hat thrown under his foot. They had to pull a ref off a game because of bias. Should the idiot not have known to maybe take the pictures of him at a Saints game in a Saints jersey off facebook.(another reason why parents shouldn't have facebook)
So basically what i'm getting at is no im not going to stop watching the NFL. It's what i do on Sundays and what i will do on Sundays for the remainder of the season and into the playoffs. Yes i will continue to bitch every Sunday about the terrible officiating until the old refs are back. And then yes i will also continue to bitch about the officiating when the old refs are back but at least my bitching will be wrong i will just need something to complain about. Refs come back, please, pretty please.
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