2019 Opponents

[chuck]

Apparently Buford gets his wish, Texans at Jags in London.

Eight miles high.....

[HPF Bob]

Originally Posted by chuck

Apparently Buford gets his wish, Texans at Jags in London.

Eight miles high.....

Not *MY* wish. I hate 8 a.m. kickoffs. Interesting how a lot of churches in Hawaii switched to evening services because morning services conflicted with NFL coverage.

[chuck]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Not *MY* wish. I hate 8 a.m. kickoffs. Interesting how a lot of churches in Hawaii switched to evening services because morning services conflicted with NFL coverage.

Mormons are flexible. We've seen that down through the years.

[HPF Bob]

Saw this comment on the thread about the conference championship officiating debacles:

"The NFL tried once to have an all-female officiating crew but they had to scrap the idea because the women kept throwing flags over plays that happened years ago."

[chuck]

Originally Posted by HPF Bob

Saw this comment on the thread about the conference championship officiating debacles:

"The NFL tried once to have an all-female officiating crew but they had to scrap the idea because the women kept throwing flags over plays that happened years ago."

Even I can admit that that's kind of funny. Maybe because I'm married.

I used to think that the NFL was by far the best officiated major sports league. And I'm pretty sure it was. How things change. The MLB umpiring brotherhood is full of entitled dickheads who get a laughable number of close plays wrong never mind their consistently terrible strike zones never mind complete flustercucks like Joe West a couple of months ago. There is no accountability and no real appetite to bring more technology to the way the game is umpired, and that I think is a mistake.

The NBA is flat out rigged. How anyone can watch it is beyond me.

The NFL, well, yesterday we saw the best of the league in terms of the excitement of the games (reminding me why I love that weekend so much), and we saw the worst of the officiating. I don't know how you fix this. Do you give teams the ability to challenge every fking thing? Maybe. I don't know. The problem is, half the time when it gets looked at New York makes the wrong call anyway. The officiating is having a serious, negative impact on my enjoyment of the games, and I am certain I'm not alone in this. But again, I don't know how you solve this.

[HPF Bob]

My eyes were opened the year the media went on this meme about Jerome Bettis retiring with a Super Bowl ring in his hometown of Detroit then the Steelers received the most one-sided officiating in the Super Bowl I've ever seen in my life. I'm no Seahawks fan but they were so totally shafted that day even the referee for that game later admitted that "it seemed" Pittsburgh had an unfair advantage.

The last straw was when Hasselback was picked off then ran over and made the tackle so the refs flew the flag at Hasselback for going low to make the tackle. First and only time I have EVER seen such a call.

Oh, well. You may enjoy this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPxrUBCX3nI

Meaningless Browns game where the Cleveland back fumbles and pops right up with the football, holds it high in the air and the refs, including the First Female ref, dig into the pile and decide it is Washington's ball.

[chuck]

That's hilarious not so much for the officiating blunder but for what it says about the Browns' organizational ineptitude writ large. Or, maybe, writ small.

Let me get this straight. Your guy is standing there with the ball in his hand, his teammates pointing at him, the referees giving the ball to the other team, and you guys do what? Nothing? Challenge? No? Want to save those time outs? Good. Nice one.