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Originally Posted by Wisconsin_Chief

Very well stated, totally spot on.

I don't want the league to be corrupt. I've loved it since I was old enough to remember as most of us have. However, I feel insulted they would present this game to me and say "Here, this is a legit pro football contest. The best team will win. Spend 3.5 hours watching it!"

To casual fans on a nationwide scale just glancing at the game in between shoving their faces and pounding Coors Light and texting their buddies about fantasy scores, they can get away with it. To anyone who actually cares about this sport and it's integrity, that was absolutely insulting. Quite frankly, I'd be saying the same thing if we'd won a game in that fashion.

Also, this whole "the refs are just incompetent" argument is really getting old. When it is clearly benefiting one team the entire game, that is not goddamn incompetence. And I've seen it over and over and over again. The signs are always the same and it follows the same script every single time. It's become so obvious when it occurs I have no idea why I don't just turn the game off. I almost did on the Pringle return and totally wish I had. I told myself they were just trying to keep it close, not actually hand it to Cincy. I was wrong.

Whatever, it's over and done with. I'll take the league for what it is and anyone who takes it at face value, that's your right to do so. Bottom line is that barring a miracle, our path to the Super Bowl just got a lot rougher.

Football has no integrity, it isn't even the same game it was 15 years ago. All the rules have been changed, reffing is actually worse, it's all about being a tv game.