Those Cheating Refs

Kaiser · Nov 29, 2019

This is a pattern I have posted about for years.

Yesterday 32 Million fans watched the Cowboys & Bills. With 1:45 left in the second quarter and Buffalo up by 6, a pass from Prescott bounces to a Bill for an interception at the Dallas 42. Buffalo looks to get at least a FG and go into halftime leading by 9 or 13.

Millions of fans turn off the game, maybe ten million. The NFL loses tens of millions of dollars in TV Ad revenue, if not a hundred million.

But wait, that didn't happen. The refs threw a flag for Illegal Hands to the Face for a DL who barely (if at all) touched Prescott's neck while being pushed down. Prescott's head doesn't move from the contact. Romo's comment was that he didn't see the penalty but "two of those" happened against Dallas last week with the tripping penalties.

The Bills do not score again and a terrible call (in the Cowboys favor) just happens to put a lot of money in the NFL's pocket. If you watch for this pattern, you will see it often where a terrible call in the first half goes in favor of the team that is down and in danger of getting blown out (which keeps the game competitive.....which keeps the fans watching....which keeps the ad revenues rolling in)

MikeB80 · Nov 29, 2019

That penalty wasn't committed against Prescott was it. I am trying to remember but wasn't that on a lineman?

bark · Nov 29, 2019

If you slow down the tape you can clearly see a muzzle flash just to the left of the grassy knoll

xwalker · Nov 29, 2019

Kaiser said:
This is a pattern I have posted about for years.

Yesterday 32 Million fans watched the Cowboys & Bills. With 1:45 left in the second quarter and Buffalo up by 6, a pass from Prescott bounces to a Bill for an interception at the Dallas 42. Buffalo looks to get at least a FG and go into halftime leading by 9 or 13.

Millions of fans turn off the game, maybe ten million. The NFL loses tens of millions of dollars in TV Ad revenue, if not a hundred million.

But wait, that didn't happen. The refs threw a flag for Illegal Hands to the Face for a DL who barely (if at all) touched Prescott's neck while being pushed down. Prescott's head doesn't move from the contact. Romo's comment was that he didn't see the penalty but "two of those" happened against Dallas last week with the tripping penalties.

The Bills do not score again and a terrible call (in the Cowboys favor) just happens to put a lot of money in the NFL's pocket. If you watch for this pattern, you will see it often where a terrible call in the first half goes in favor of the team that is down and in danger of getting blown out (which keeps the game competitive.....which keeps the fans watching....which keeps the ad revenues rolling in)

They should have thrown a penalty on the DB on that play.

Kingofholland · Nov 29, 2019

How dare the refs skew the outcome, if the refs let it go the Bills would have won. Oh wait the Bills did win, darn I don't know where I was going with that.

Kaiser · Nov 29, 2019

MikeB80 said:
That penalty wasn't committed against Prescott was it. I am trying to remember but wasn't that on a lineman?

I think you are missing the point, the penalty was called against a Bills DL to save the Cowboys from being down so far at halftime that a ton of fans would turn the game off. The illegal hands were to Prescott's face and you don't actually see the contact. You also don't see Prescott's head move.

Last year this happened for them in the first half of the Colts game and against them in the first half of the Bucs game. No matter what the left end of the Bell Curve posters think, its a pattern in the NFL and has been for years.

Reverend Conehead · Nov 29, 2019

bark said:
If you slow down the tape you can clearly see a muzzle flash just to the left of the grassy knoll

That was Elvis. Elvis shot JFK.

cowboysfan99 · Nov 29, 2019

If it's really about money then why don't the Cowboys ever make it past the divisional round (in fact they were screwed by the refs both times they played the Packers)? You would think the NFL would want their biggest draw in the Super Bowl...

Jake · Nov 29, 2019

Kaiser said:
This is a pattern I have posted about for years.

Yesterday 32 Million fans watched the Cowboys & Bills. With 1:45 left in the second quarter and Buffalo up by 6, a pass from Prescott bounces to a Bill for an interception at the Dallas 42. Buffalo looks to get at least a FG and go into halftime leading by 9 or 13.

Millions of fans turn off the game, maybe ten million. The NFL loses tens of millions of dollars in TV Ad revenue, if not a hundred million.

But wait, that didn't happen. The refs threw a flag for Illegal Hands to the Face for a DL who barely (if at all) touched Prescott's neck while being pushed down. Prescott's head doesn't move from the contact. Romo's comment was that he didn't see the penalty but "two of those" happened against Dallas last week with the tripping penalties.

The Bills do not score again and a terrible call (in the Cowboys favor) just happens to put a lot of money in the NFL's pocket. If you watch for this pattern, you will see it often where a terrible call in the first half goes in favor of the team that is down and in danger of getting blown out (which keeps the game competitive.....which keeps the fans watching....which keeps the ad revenues rolling in)

You should probably stop posting about it. :facepalm:

One commonality I see among conspiracy theorists is a lack of understanding about their subject matter.

Bleedblue1111 · Nov 29, 2019

Kaiser said:
This is a pattern I have posted about for years.

Yesterday 32 Million fans watched the Cowboys & Bills. With 1:45 left in the second quarter and Buffalo up by 6, a pass from Prescott bounces to a Bill for an interception at the Dallas 42. Buffalo looks to get at least a FG and go into halftime leading by 9 or 13.

Millions of fans turn off the game, maybe ten million. The NFL loses tens of millions of dollars in TV Ad revenue, if not a hundred million.

But wait, that didn't happen. The refs threw a flag for Illegal Hands to the Face for a DL who barely (if at all) touched Prescott's neck while being pushed down. Prescott's head doesn't move from the contact. Romo's comment was that he didn't see the penalty but "two of those" happened against Dallas last week with the tripping penalties.

The Bills do not score again and a terrible call (in the Cowboys favor) just happens to put a lot of money in the NFL's pocket. If you watch for this pattern, you will see it often where a terrible call in the first half goes in favor of the team that is down and in danger of getting blown out (which keeps the game competitive.....which keeps the fans watching....which keeps the ad revenues rolling in)

My understanding of the hands to the face rule, is to the head or neck area. Not sure if they judge how severe. But, I get your point.

beware_d-ware · Nov 29, 2019

Dude's got a point.

shabazz · Nov 29, 2019

Kaiser, I’m not sure if that exact scenarios Is true or not, but I don’t put a thing past the NFL and wouldn’t be surprised if it was true. The Nfl lost any credibility from me on the way they handles Zekes suspension without doing any due diligence or due process. The current refereeing is under the worst criticism we have ever seen. They took a bulletproof product and are systematically destroying the credibility and popularity of it

Kaiser · Nov 29, 2019

Jake said:
One commonality I see among conspiracy theorists is a lack of understanding about their subject matter.

A commonality I see among the three people who keep calling it a "conspiracy theory" is they never counter the posts with facts.

I also see a commonality in the posts when I ask you about terrible calls that have gone for the Cowboys to determine a game, you never reply.

And FYI, its not a conspiracy theory if it favors my team and aligns with the other NFL policies to maximize revenue. The NFL had a "conspiracy theory" to look the other way on steroid use in the 60's and 70's and that isn't in dispute.

Kaiser · Nov 29, 2019

shabazz said:
They took a bulletproof product and are systematically destroying the credibility and popularity of it

I don't know, the revenue and ratings are a lot higher in the parity ball era of the Salary Cap and Sunday Ticket than in the old days of the Cowboys, Steelers or 49'ers dominating bad teams.

I haven't dug into the numbers, but this chart seems fairly accurate that NFL revenue has more than tripled over the last 15 years -

https://www.statista.com/statistics/193457/total-league-revenue-of-the-nfl-since-2005/

Kaiser · Nov 29, 2019

Bleedblue1111 said:
My understanding of the hands to the face rule, is to the head or neck area. Not sure if they judge how severe. But, I get your point.

If you get that technical, you can call a penalty on either team on every play of the game. Do you think they call that if the pass is complete? I don't.

And the point is, if you watch the games over time you see this pattern over and over again. Its always in the first half and always in favor of keeping the game close, which maximizes revenue for the league.

Kingofholland · Nov 29, 2019

Kaiser said:
If you make a stupid post its going to be called stupid. Not a difficult concept.

The NFL will make exponentially more money from the entire US watching 16 very close games than from the 10% or so that are Cowboy fans being happy. That also is a concept that shouldn't be difficult.

Ok you seem like a pretty smart cat, unlike me who doesnt understand math. 1 game turned into 16 games kind of like my 12 rolls of toliet paper that turn into 36 at the grocery store. Amazing, how do you and Charmin do it??? Can you now calculate the lost revenue from the Cowboys not being in the Super Bowl??? Or how about why every game isn't decided by a max of 7 points in the NFL?? There should be no blowouts if the NFL is trying to keep 16 games close every week.

shabazz · Nov 29, 2019

Many times a lack of discipline is attributed to teams that are heavily penalized and one can understand that basic philosophy, but how in the hell can some teams suffer that calamity when they have gone through 7 different coaching staffs and 4 generations of new players? Anybody that believed that Al Davis’s Raiders weren’t being retaliated against by the NFL via their refs just isn’t applying critical thinking.

I believe Jerry’s Cowboys have suffered a similar fate to some degree as well. It’s not the amount of penalties; it’s when those penalties are called......yes I do wear a tin foil hat at times, just hard to ignore the signs

And yes, that 4th down crappy pass in the turf to Zeke had nothing to fo with the officiating

Asklesko · Nov 29, 2019

A blown call in the bills game does not mean the refs weren't stinking cheaters in the Pats game

Cover 2 · Nov 29, 2019

Reverend Conehead said:
That was Elvis. Elvis shot JFK.

Pretty sure it was Tupac

nyc-cowboy · Nov 29, 2019

So we couldn't win even with the Refs helping.......dayum.

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