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Originally posted by carolinaRRREF
My only problem was the consistency. If a play is called consistently, then nobody can complain. Complaints are valid when the call is never made, then made at the most crucial of times.
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Consistency based on what? I have seen that called all year. The NFL for the past several years has cracked down on OPI and this was one of many calls made all year. One of our jobs is to call the obvious. When you extend your arms and make the defender move backwards, that is pretty obvious. If he was slicker and did not have the same arm extention, he might have got away with it.
256 regular season games, <20 OPI calls, yet that same amount of contact happens on 90% of all pass plays. Watch the video. The defender puts both hands on the receiver, and the receiver swats his arms off him. Ticky tack at best. Bad call (unless it's called all the time, which it isn't).
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Originally posted by carolinaRRREF
Officials unfortunately forget that the game is about the players and the fans, not about them. Let the players play. A properly officiated game should leave the officials virtually invisible. This was not the case in the Super Bowl.
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What do you mean it is about the players and fans? If it was about the fans then betting would be legal across the country BTW. If the players only want it to be about them, why do they spend so much time trying to tell the officials what should be called? There were 10 fouls total in the game. If you look over the entire season you might be lucky if you find one game that has less than 10 fouls in en entire game. I have seen games where 10 fouls were called in a half or a quarter. Not sure what the officials did that changed the game. There were about 160 plays in this game and only 10 the officials had anything to do with. That is less than 10% of the plays involved a penalty. When players stop making mistakes, officials will stop making mistakes and this call you are complaining about was not a mistake.
this proves my point. You're an official that has a power trip and wants to be bigger than the game. You're wrong. There were 10 fouls called. 1 of those was on Pittsburgh, aside from the 2 illegal procedures. 5 of the 7 against Seattle were controversial and on key plays, which greatly hurt their chances of scoring, thereby affecting the outcome of the game. Scandal? No... but still not an even playing field.
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Originally posted by carolinaRRREF
If you look for proof to support the calls, you can find it. If you look for proof to refute the calls, you can find it. What people SHOULD be looking for, is what is correct.
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I do not think anyone is looking for anything to prove the situation. You are the one trying to convince us that the calls were wrong. Some media guy that thinks fouls is supposed to be even to have a properly called game is not a good reference point.
If you would spend more time here during the season and off season, you would see that we talk about things like this all the time. We do not just pick the Super Bowl to debate calls or consistency. You are just a Johnny come lately complaining about something you have proven you know nothing about.
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Look at the original post of this thread. It's trying to prove the situation. My opinion is this "proof" is slanted because of bias of the officials in this forum.
I haven't tried to prove anything. I'm stating my opinions. Just because I'm new to the forum doesn't make my opinions invalid. Neither does my having an opinion different than yours.
This is why you are a poor excuse for an official. You have an idea and are unwilling to hear any other sides. You defend another official's work because everybody else in the world is coming down on them, and you get defensive.
The Super Bowl was officiated poorly. You think it wasn't because you're a poor excuse for an official.