Tin foil hat time again

[5Stars]

Yeah.

The amount of people who would have to be "in" on this makes the idea that it wouldn't get out ridiculous.

Right! You have thousands of people involved in a single game. There is no way that there is some kind of conspiracy for or against any team.

 

[Vintage]

Every fan base feels they receive more than their fair share of bad calls.

Every fan base whines its a conspiracy against them.

LOL at the people who think the Cowboys are so "special" that the refs are really out to get them.

 

[Doomsay]

lol put down the thesaurus... youre using these words out of context.

"youre" not even close to being able to qualify that.

 

[TTexasTT]

"youre" not even close to being able to qualify that.

"youre" just trying way too hard.

 

[tyke1doe]

The refs have a preference in the outcome of games just like anyone else and sometimes their calls (or at least the TIMING of their calls) reflect that. It's human nature.

Spoken like a man who has never been an ump, official or referee. And if you have, you need to stop now.

I am an ump. I may like certain teams, but I NEVER cater my calls to the coaches or teams I like or dislike.

It's called PROFESSIONALISM and INTEGRITY.

 

[tyke1doe]

When Dallas gets bad calls it's purely to hold the team back.

When other teams get bad calls, rather than just admit that officiating sucks across the league we have now begun to connect dots and trace that bad call back to Dallas in order to show that the officials really hate Dallas.

You guys know that point where a conspiracy has become so big that it's almost impossible it could even be true simply because of the number of people involved would have meant that someone spilled the beans?

That's where we are at.

Maybe they can find where Jimmy Hoffa is buried.

 

[guag]

Every fan base feels they receive more than their fair share of bad calls.

Every fan base whines its a conspiracy against them.

LOL at the people who think the Cowboys are so "special" that the refs are really out to get them.

The subject of the recent Cowboys-Giants game came up at Thanksgiving dinner with a Giants fan, and all he could talk about was how much the Giants were screwed by the refs that game and how the refs gifted the game to the Cowboys.

It's interesting how everyone has the same view about their favorite team.

 

[Vintage]

The subject of the recent Cowboys-Giants game came up at Thanksgiving dinner with a Giants fan, and all he could talk about was how much the Giants were screwed by the refs that game and how the refs gifted the game to the Cowboys.

It's interesting how everyone has the same view about their favorite team.

I have yet to run across a fan base that thinks they benefit from bad calls more often than not.

 

[Corso]

With parity, suggestions of penalty bias insignificance are a parody.

This post is a parody of seriousness.

 

[Doomsay]

"youre" just trying way too hard.

"youre" just embarrassing yourself.

 

[Doomsay]

This post is a parody of seriousness.

Yes, and fun with almost homonyms - since it was a tin foil job to begin with.

 

[Corso]

The subject of the recent Cowboys-Giants game came up at Thanksgiving dinner with a Giants fan, and all he could talk about was how much the Giants were screwed by the refs that game and how the refs gifted the game to the Cowboys.

It's interesting how everyone has the same view about their favorite team.

Not interesting. Like us- it's an unwillingness to admit that their team was beat.

Refs or no refs.

Like I said- complaining about the refs is like asking for crutches for a stubbed toe.

Weak-minded excuse making.

 

[ElGatoGrande]

After the game being handed to the Eagles does anyone really feel like there is nothing fishy going on?

There are things going on with the officiating that are not above board. Don't know if it's behind-the-scenes league sanctioned or not, but these officials are not always calling a straight game.

 

[Fritsch_the_cat]

Every fan base feels they receive more than their fair share of bad calls.

And they are right, but it's not a conspiracy, just lousy officiating. I'm not sure what the NFL can do, the game has become so fast I'm not sure it's humanly possibly to fairly call a game anymore. Perhaps more use of instant replay would help, but then we would have 4 hour games.

 

[Nav22]

Spoken like a man who has never been an ump, official or referee. And if you have, you need to stop now.

I am an ump. I may like certain teams, but I NEVER cater my calls to the coaches or teams I like or dislike.

It's called PROFESSIONALISM and INTEGRITY.

I'll bet you don't have a real rooting interest for any of those "certain teams" the way you have a rooting interest for a professional team like, say, the Cowboys.

And you're lying if you say that you'd be 100% impartial if you ever were the ump of a Cowboys game. Those 50/50 calls that could legitimately go either way would be very easy to see through blue-colored glasses. Especially if it was a very important play late in a big game.

Take the late 4th down pass by the 49ers vs the Ravens in the Super Bowl. A play that easily could've been called either way. You're telling me that if you're the ref standing right there and you grew up as a diehard 49ers fan, you're not throwing that flag? C'mon.

The Cardinals got the raw end of 2 TERRIBLE calls late in Philly. And they just so happened to come on the 2 biggest stops of the game by the Cardinals D. An INT that would've set them up beautifully with a chance to win or at least tie the game, then a stop that would've forced the Eagles to kick a FG and allow the Cards one last chance with the ball and a minute left trailing by 6.

Sorry, I'm not buying that the timing of those calls was a coincidence. You can defend them all you like, but you also would've defended Tim Donaghy's work before that whole scandal came out.

 

[blindzebra]

Spoken like a man who has never been an ump, official or referee. And if you have, you need to stop now.

I am an ump. I may like certain teams, but I NEVER cater my calls to the coaches or teams I like or dislike.

It's called PROFESSIONALISM and INTEGRITY.

I too officiate and that is what is supposed to happen, but in normal cases human beings can be influenced by their surroundings. And I know every official won't make up stuff but if a player or coach has been a pain in the butt you are much less likely to give them the benefit of the doubt on any gray area call.

All I know is that everything officials in every sport strive for like consistency of type of call and if something has not been called that way all game it damn well should not be called in the final minutes is seriously lacking.

 

[BotchedLobotomy]

Don't confuse incompetency with conspiracy.

 

[kevm3]

Conspiracy or not, the reffing has become such garbage that they are literally deciding the outcomes of games. Enough of this tip toeing and acting like an issue doesn't exist. The refs stink and something needs to be done about it. We hold players and we hold coaches to a high standard, and it should be no different for the refs.

 

[Doomsay]

The non-review of the Dez catch 2 weeks ago is impossible to rationalize. That was a willful non-investigation.

A non-review of a ref's over-turn of another ref's initial call, during a time period when the NFL exerted singular control over the ability to call a replay, in the waning minutes of a close game, is unconscionable.

 

[Hoofbite]

The non-review of the Dez catch 2 weeks ago is impossible to rationalize. That was a willful non-investigation.

A non-review of a ref's over-turn of another ref's initial call, during a time period when the NFL exerted singular control over the ability to call a replay, in the waning minutes of a close game, is unconscionable.

Is it even a reviewable play?

You can challenge possession but how do you challenge the ruling of actually going to the ground when the player clearly ended up on the ground?