Refs aren't told to favor teams, there is no conspiracy. they simply let their bias based on their own perception get in the way. so, if they think a team is better, they will give them the calls that may appear close because if it is a question of whether it is or isn't a penalty, they will assume that since the team is good it probably wasn't a penalty just a good play, whereas they are less likely to give the team they don't think is as good the benefit of such doubt. it's like that in all sports. good pitcher, he gets the strike call because the ump assumes if it is close the good pitcher probably hit his mark. in basketball, if a star player fouls, the ref simply assumes because he is great he probably got a clean block, and vice versa on offense, they don't believe the superstar can be stopped so if he has been it must be a foul.
i would rather he come out and say we need to stop treating the quarterbacks like they are women and realize they are playing football. since when is simply hitting the qb low illegal? if i remember correctly you needed to launch or lunge toward the qbs legs. i dont remember the guy doing that although i might be wrong. its amazing even after the fact they are still on favres jock.
..yes they did..but the best team doesn't always win.....and we were down by 3 w/ 13 mins left, so it was anyone's game at that point.....Colts run 65 plays...not ONE holding????
My Full Of Crap Sense tingles at least half of every Official Review segment on NFLN. Pereira comes off to me as the NFL Information Minister.
He thinks his refs are the Pope. I am not a big fan of referees in general, but in reference to Periera, seriously, fuck that guy.
I watched that segment once and had to rinse myself off I felt so dirty. That guy can always get a job with Conagra if he leaves the NFL. He is so full of shit he would be perfect for a fertilizer company.
Its called home field advantage.... and funny thing is i saw the same thing when the Colts Played the Ravens they were getting bullshit calls and let peyton roam free
Fuck that piece of shit, he knew it was a penalty he just didn't wanna call it because he was dickriding the colts. May he rot in hell.
Geez...the guy flat out says it was a missed call. That it should have been called a penalty and the ref fucked up. He also said Peyton was full of shit for whining on the goal line about the refs standing over the ball to let the Jets get their goal line package in. Farve got flat out gang raped in the NFC game and didn't get any calls. And he's the leagues poster boy. Shitty officiating is exactly what it is...shitty officiating. It ain't no conspiracy. That shit happens behind closed doors at a much higher level. What else do you think the league is gonna say or do? Teams have gotten jobbed a lot worse by absolutely horrid calls. And at least the league is willing to put a rep on air to at least discuss the missed calls. They could just tell everybody to fuck off. They are a monopoly you know...
Name the contest - youth, amateur, or professional - where every call was made and none were missed. I don't get crazy because I know shit is going to get missed. We the fans have way better angles with 393930 cameras and slow motion that we can rewind 55 times to see if we can get it right too. One shot, at a speed that if any of us were pushed in front of we'd probably shit our pants considering we'd be in pure awe of the speed and talent of the players playing the game rather than officiating it. We'd simply watch the game wearing pinstripes and miss everything, wouldn't know what to look for or what to call 99% of the time, and then we'd go home and shut the fuck up about what's going on out there.
Watch Official Review every week and count the number of times he admits guys screwed up when there are clearly missed calls or soft calls. He will find a way to argue that it was the right call 95% of the time, when clearly the refs have made mistakes.
What would lead you to believe that I think that? They will ask him to explain why a roughing the passer penalty is called on a routine clean sack and will show examples of much rougher, harder hits the same weekend that were not flagged, then he will defend the ref who threw the flag. I remember Hank poteat being flagged like 2 years ago for PI against the Pats I think, and he was literally in a zone sitting in one place not moving....a WR running a slant and looking at the QB ran into Hank and knocked him down and Periera defended the call. When Harris sacked Schaub in week 1 with a horse collar tackle that wasn't called, NFL Network showed Periera a close up of Harris' hand inside Schaub's shoulder pads, and Rich Eisen read the rule. Periera said some bullshit about it not being a violent tackle and then they showed Periera like 4 other flagged non-violent horse collar tackles. He still defended the non-call even after Rich pointed out that the rule does not mention anything about the ferocity of the tackle. I do not know the rule book better than he does. In fact, it is impossible for anyone to ever know it as well as him because he can fucking change it whenever he wants to service his own interests....which primarily include not making him look bad for the refs he picks. He's a bullshit artist, that's all there is to it.
I see where you're going with that question. Personally, I've only umpired Little League baseball games that my kids have played in. And I've blown calls. Afterward I knew I blew them and there was nothing I could do about it. I don't get paid to umpire.
