Questionable Calls Superbowl 43

[Ed Hickland]

Originally Posted by kdf5

"Everyone" isn't throwing the crew under the bus, just uninformed beer chugging goofs who don't know a thing about officiating are doing that.

I always wonder about those beer chugging goofs who complain about penalties called, "what if" those penalties were not called, would they still complain?

I believe the answer is yes because they have nothing better to do. Lets invite them to spend a day on the football field in the striped shirt and see how long they last.

[ajmc]

Originally Posted by Ed Hickland

I believe the answer is yes because they have nothing better to do. Lets invite them to spend a day on the football field in the striped shirt and see how long they last.

Please, don't do that. It's way beyond our abilities to educate these fools. Folks who ask reasonable, rational questions because they're serious about knowing the answer, are a different story, but, "beer chugging goofs who complain about penalties" are only interested in the sound of their own voice.

The farther they stay away from the field, the better all of us, and the game itself will be.

[Ed Hickland]

Originally Posted by ajmc

Please, don't do that. It's way beyond our abilities to educate these fools. Folks who ask reasonable, rational questions because they're serious about knowing the answer, are a different story, but, "beer chugging goofs who complain about penalties" are only interested in the sound of their own voice.

The farther they stay away from the field, the better all of us, and the game itself will be.

No, no!

These guys who have "watched" NFL games -- making them experts -- for decades and freely offer their opinion of how bad the officiating is deserve a chance to show what they are made of. Most would probably last through the kickoff and the first play from scrimmage before they head off to a beer.

Reminds me of a story this past season. Junior high game, 60 year old ref who can still move pretty good and is in good shape. Play down the sideline, runner goes out of bounds, ref is about 7 yards behind the play and immediately moves to the spot and signals timeout. Behind him walking slowly an obviously overweight, extended belly gentleman yells, "hey ref, you got to keep up with them."

[RMR]

Originally Posted by Ed Hickland

I always wonder about those beer chugging goofs who complain about penalties called, "what if" those penalties were not called, would they still complain?

I believe the answer is yes because they have nothing better to do. Lets invite them to spend a day on the football field in the striped shirt and see how long they last.

It may not be the same goofs, but there would be goofs complaining.

I like to refer to it as the law of inverse color and call.

Let's say there's a foul on the blue team. All the blue team goofs get all worked up telling you how it's a BS call, etc.

However if the red team does the exact same thing that "wasn't a foul" when blue did it, and there is no flag, then the goofs are complaining that it wasn't called.

Make sense?

Kinda like if you flag something it was either ticky-tack, or borderline or BS or whatever, but if you don't flag it well it's because you didn't have the balls to put your flag on it.

I have discovered that it is pretty much the nature of the beast.

[kdf5]

Originally Posted by Ed Hickland

I always wonder about those beer chugging goofs who complain about penalties called, "what if" those penalties were not called, would they still complain?

Most fans like fljet simply reserve the right to remain stupid so talking to them is a waste of time anyway.