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[QUOTE]Originally posted by OverAndBack

I suppose you have the numbers from that survey? I hear a very vocal minority of people who aren't educated as to the rules, who can't handle the fact their team lost and look for a scapegoat (and officials are the easiest scapegoats there are), who are sports talk show hosts and internet morons. I have a very, very hard time believing that those who feel this is much ado about nothing are in the minority.

This is a good example of the bad attitude exhibited here. People calling people names and discounting "fanboys" and "so-called" experts just because they're not referees? Have you not seen the news, the internet, etc... all the surveys? Even the Pittsburgh newspaper had a poll asking if people thought the game was officiated fairly. Last I checked that was 51% NO. Nationwide, that number was 70-75%. But not here... oh no... 'cause your heros couldn't make mistakes.

But making stuff up and being hysterical and refusing to admit that maybe a reasonable person would disagree with you - those are great traits for somebody calling a game to have.

How am I hysterical? You keep saying that, and all I've ever said is that I feel the game was poorly officiated. You disagree. Big deal.

I don't know anything about you as an official. But from what you've written and how you've presented your arguments, I figure you're not open to having your beliefs challenged at all by visual evidence or the experience of your colleagues in the profession. And that, I can tell you without a doubt, is not a trait you want an official to have.

According to your tagline, I've officiated about TEN TIMES the number of football games you have, working in both the ACC and Big East... started before instant replay was even invented and maybe while you were still in grade school. What we understood and were taught then were that we were there to officiate the game, not take it over. Then came along refs that had a power trip and thought they were what the game was all about, and didn't APPRECIATE the game for what it was supposed to be, over-analyzing every detail instead of realizing that our job is to keep the game in control, not call every possible foul and to be able to admit when we messed up.

And I know this much about you -- you're a wannabe ref working a couple of high school JV games and wish you were in the NFL, but never will get out of butt-f*** Egypt's dirt playground games.