As a high level basketball official in Canada, I am usually pretty cautious about being critical of other officials no matter what sport it is. However, after watching the Pats/Steelers game yesterday, I was wondering if anyone else felt the same as I did.
I am not a Pats or a Steelers fan. That said, I could not stop from feeling as though the Pats got screwed on about 3 calls that went to replay. The most blatent one was when the receiver clearly had the ball in his two hands as he fell to the ground and when his elbow hit the turf, the ball popped loose. Even then, I don't think he let the ball touch the ground. There was a pass interference call that was brutal too.
The one thing that the referee did however that we can all learn from is he gave clear and precise explanations as to what he saw and based his decision on. This could help all of us on the court next time coach wants to know "how that was a foul".
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Mon Jan 28, 2002, 04:46pm
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