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Wow, not even censored? I wonder if NBC will be fined.

I don't get why coaches think officials are idiots. We know you're trying to cheat the system, we know you're not trying to call a time out. You're a lying sack of crap and you should be called on it.

>> ^Yogi:

I don't get why coaches think officials are idiots. We know you're trying to cheat the system, we know you're not trying to call a time out. You're a lying sack of crap and you should be called on it.


Have you been following what's going on at all? These aren't the regular officials. These are replacements called up from like division III college football. They are getting the rules wrong. They aren't calling personal fouls. Players are getting hurt. Teams are getting four, five timeouts in a half because the officials don't know what they're doing.

>> ^direpickle:

>> ^Yogi:
I don't get why coaches think officials are idiots. We know you're trying to cheat the system, we know you're not trying to call a time out. You're a lying sack of crap and you should be called on it.

Have you been following what's going on at all? These aren't the regular officials. These are replacements called up from like division III college football. They are getting the rules wrong. They aren't calling personal fouls. Players are getting hurt. Teams are getting four, five timeouts in a half because the officials don't know what they're doing.


Yeah I have been following what's going on. It must be pointed out that several colleges are doing studies on this and what they found is that the same number of calls and mistakes have been made by the replacement officials as were made by the regular officials by this time last year.

A lot of the sports media is having a field day with this because controversy, even made up controversy generates pageviews and ratings. You are being fed sensationalist lies. I believe having watched several games this season that these guys aren't as good as the officials they replaced but they're much better than the media and stupid fans would have you believe.

They're also A MILLION FUCKING TIMES BETTER, than the fatass fucks that are constantly saying they're shit. Fatass fans need to shut up and volunteer to referee, we're always needing more because they quit after being screamed at too much by dumbass fans.

@Yogi I wrote this big long reply, but screw it. Synopsis:

I don't blame the replacements. They're making understandable mistakes based on what their actual jobs are. I blame the people causing the lockout.

I agree they're not as bad as the media is making them out to be. I have been curious about seeing the exact same sort of studies you mention. I'll have to Google. I do find it hard to believe that they're not measurably worse, though.

Bad penalty-calling aside, they're almost definitely breaking the flow of the game as they try to figure out the rules. There's frequent overlong stoppage of play for no real reason. Again, not totally their fault. Maybe this happens with the regulars and I just don't remember, but it seems way worse.

>> ^direpickle:

@Yogi I wrote this big long reply, but screw it. Synopsis:
I don't blame the replacements. They're making understandable mistakes based on what their actual jobs are. I blame the people causing the lockout.
I agree they're not as bad as the media is making them out to be. I have been curious about seeing the exact same sort of studies you mention. I'll have to Google. I do find it hard to believe that they're not measurably worse, though.
Bad penalty-calling aside, they're almost definitely breaking the flow of the game as they try to figure out the rules. There's frequent overlong stoppage of play for no real reason. Again, not totally their fault. Maybe this happens with the regulars and I just don't remember, but it seems way worse.


Here's my reply to all of this. I don't really care all that much. What pisses me off is that this is a big deal when our country is fucked. People don't have jobs everywhere, our economy is shit, and the government is giving the rich everything. So why do we care about these millionaires not getting calls in their "Game." I played football all my life, and I like the NFL, but they're expecting me to care about people with soo much money it's obscene. Fuck Them. They need to shut the fuck up.

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