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Originally Posted by DJJasonp
LOL at "part time refs" excuse. what a joke.
It's how the NFL maintains plausible deniability with the "inept" and 'part-time" excuses.
SO easy to fall back on that excuse, year after year.
Even with the most blatant screw-up in playoff history (outside of "forward progress") with the saints, they had ONE year of being able to challenge pass-interference. ONE.
The NFL will never get "better" refs, because they don't want "better" refs.
At least with Baseball, if an ump has a wide strike zone for one team, and a small one for the other, the batter can still swing and hit the ball, regardless of strike zone.
In the NFL, you have no chance against PI and illegal contact (and the deadly holding penalty that negates a score or 3rd down conversion).
ever since last year's super bowl, I watch half-heartedly......it's entertainment that is pushed and nudged in certain directions to:
1) avoid blowouts and people tuning out early
2) point-spreads
3) not allow teams to clinch divisions too early
4) create narratives/rivalries
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Ding ding ding ding ding. If the owners weren't getting what they want from this kind of officiating, they would have changed it a long time ago, but they're getting exactly what they want.