[NFL] Footbaaaawl.
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Let me think like an NFL owner for a moment...
Since that play, ESPN has talked about nothing but that play. Other news outlets have given far more weight to a Week 3 Monday night game than they ever would otherwise. Social media has gone into a frenzy over the NFL overnight.
There will be many more eyeballs on Thursday night's game than usual, hoping for another train wreck. Then the conversation continues going into Sunday.
The NFL is the only sports topic right now. If I were an owner, why should I want it any other way? Free publicity across the board.
Since that play, ESPN has talked about nothing but that play. Other news outlets have given far more weight to a Week 3 Monday night game than they ever would otherwise. Social media has gone into a frenzy over the NFL overnight.
There will be many more eyeballs on Thursday night's game than usual, hoping for another train wreck. Then the conversation continues going into Sunday.
The NFL is the only sports topic right now. If I were an owner, why should I want it any other way? Free publicity across the board.
Not only is the buzz about the NFL up, viewership is up too.
Maybe we'll get more Lingerie League Ref's.
Maybe we'll get more Lingerie League Ref's.
On behalf of NFL fans everywhere (yes, even Seattle... most of us honestly do think that the Seahawks really did deserve to lose that game), I would like to personally thank the Green Bay Packers and their fans for the tremendous sacrifice they made in order to get us our proper officials back.
<ahem> Thank you.
...and we now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
Go Bears! F*ck the Packers!
<ahem> Thank you.
...and we now return to our regularly scheduled programming.
Go Bears! F*ck the Packers!
This could be any game with any refs.
Yeah, it's not so much that the last call was horrible. I mean, it was a horrible call, and the non-call of the offensive pass interference in the end zone by Golden Tate was also horrible. The biggest issue to me, was that the entire game was horrible by the officiating crew. And then on Sunday you had that issue where they gave a team 4 timeouts again, and two extra challenges because of that. Even with the regular refs coming back, I'd say that enough damage has been done to various teams' win loss records that they ought to just stick a massive asterisk next to this season and pretend that it didn't happen.
NO! the Texans are still undefeated...
On the one hand, there's a lot to be said for having run up the score on a team high enough that a bad call at the end of the game wouldn't have been an issue. On the other hand, Seattle has a good defense, and there are a lot of close games throughout the league and throughout the season. Are you trying to say that teams that play hard-fought games, who give it their all, and still have a close game deserve to lose due to really incredibly shitty officiating?
Yea, pretty much.
It's one thing for "Good teams overcome bad officiating." It's another when that officiating is so terrible even the ladies on The View talk about it.
The silver lining from all this is that the REAL officials will be on the field this weekend, and those "replacements" will be back working at Foot Locker where they belong.
The silver lining from all this is that the REAL officials will be on the field this weekend, and those "replacements" will be back working at Foot Locker where they belong.
Zappit
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Look the NFL was doing the best it could. Granted, they rounded up high school officials, college refs who refused to distinguish the different sets of rules, a guy on the Seahawks' payroll, and at least one guy who was fired from the Lingere League for incompetence, but give Roger Goodell some credit. He could have picked anybody - literally anybody else, but he put out those guys, intent on literally flushing the integrity of the game down the crapper to force those rebellious refs in line, who dared to demand their pensions be restored.
Some men just want to watch the world burn. Roger Goodell showed up to the party with a milk jug full of whiskey in one hand, a tank of gasoline in the other, and a flamethrower strapped to his back.
But seriously, I'm glad the refs won. $20,000 to reserve a seat before you even buy the damn season tickets? Fuck the owners for cutting back like that when the NFL pulls in damn near $10 BILLION a year. That's just greed on their part, and they got burned for it.
Some men just want to watch the world burn. Roger Goodell showed up to the party with a milk jug full of whiskey in one hand, a tank of gasoline in the other, and a flamethrower strapped to his back.
But seriously, I'm glad the refs won. $20,000 to reserve a seat before you even buy the damn season tickets? Fuck the owners for cutting back like that when the NFL pulls in damn near $10 BILLION a year. That's just greed on their part, and they got burned for it.
Romo is getting close to breaking some of Danny White's records... which is fitting, both are great quarterbacks in games that don't matter. Or are great from the 20 to the 20, anywhere else and they are trouble.
I like the jersey and socks, the pants don't look right... I wonder what the Texans will wear as throwback jerseys?
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