NFL officials suck, and the fans are rubes, and the commentators are nauseating

The BBQ Pit
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I. Watching the game at Green Bay today, I find mounting evidence that NFL officiating sucks. One obviously incomplete Matt Hasselback pass is (initially) called a fumble, which is picked up by a Packer and returned for a TD. One suspects they would not have made that conclusion were the same ball to be lobbed from Favre’s hand. They also failed to “notice” a blatant holding call that sprung Green for a first down on the first GB touchdown drive. If Shaun Alexander had been sprung on the same “block,” you just KNOW it would be minus 10 instead of plus 12. The Packers are perfectly capable of winning the game on their merits, they are a better team than the Seahawks and don’t need any help.

II. Then, the crowd erupts in boos when the psuedo-fumble call is reversed. What? You don’t want a fair game, Green Bay fans? Minnesota fans do it too, but I HATE it when people cheer bad calls/boo good calls. If you’re a football fan, you want a fair game, and that was OBVIOUSLY a terrible call that needed to be reversed. Jesus Christ, be a good sport about it. For clarity - I’ve had exactly the same rant about my fellow Vikings fan rubes at the Metrodome. They’ve booed good calls it even when the Vikings were up by 30 points. Sheesh.

III. Yeah, commentators, we’re all sorry for Brett Favre. But you know what? Every player in the NFL also has a Daddy. Can you please shut the fuck up about Brett’s personal life and spiritual heroism and call the fucking game? You’ve talked about nothing else the past three weeks. This isn’t a movie of the week, it’s a football game.

Every one I know is sick of NFL glurge storylines: Warner and his wife and his crippled son, Favre’s daddy, Donovan McNabb and Rush Limbaugh’s remarks. Blah, blah, blah. Call the game or shut up.

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I don’t agree quite so vehemently, but I admit my eye muscles were strained from rolling with the 15 minute conversation on the pre-game show about the Packers “destiny”.

“Oh, I believe in destiny, and it definitely feels like something is going on here n Packerland …”

Yeah, golly. It’s too bad his father didn’t die last year … Favre might already have that second ring.

I’m so rooting against the Packers just so this will cease to be an issue.

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The Packers win, and Cris Collinsworth says “the angels are hovering above this Green Bay Packers team.”

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I heard. I upchucked just a little.

The SeaHawks actually would have won, but Jesus made Hasselback throw an interception.

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As an Australian all these miles away, it always interests me to see how different cultures the world over get so absorbed with footballing premierships as a season unfolds.

In some parts of the world, soccer is obviously the vehicle of choice. In others, it’s variations on the major Rugby codes - and in North America obviously American Football holds sway.

One thing in common through 'em all however - is the Monday Morning expert. Gotta love the internet, huh?

My personal observation regarding American Football these days? You’ve allowed TV Producers to hi-jack the game away from it’s original spirit. It’s way too contrived nowadays compared to when I lived in San Jose in the late 1970’s. (And yes, I was an Oakland Raiders fan back then!)

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Jack, you’re nothing to me now. You’re not a brother, you’re not a friend. I don’t want to know you or what you do. I don’t want to see you at the hotels, I don’t want you near my house. When you visit the dope, I want to know a day in advance, so I won’t be there. You understand?

As to the OP, the simple response is “Quit being a whiny bitch.” Although the ref’s on the field blew a couple calls, the incomplete pass/fumble, and the Bannister catch that was called a fumble, they both got reviewed and the proper call was made. What’s the fucking problem? And can we quit with the crap about “Well if it were Favre, the call wouldn’t have been mad,” and “The Packers got all the calls.” Just in case you didn’t notice, the Packers had 5 penalties for 30 yards to Seattle’s 2 penalties for 15 yards. And you’re seriously bitching about a “blatant” hold that wasn’t called. Have you watched any NFL football? After review, the proper calls were made, and the Packers won. Crying about it won’t help, and just makes you look like a whiny bitch.

You do have a modicum of a point about Homers who boo good calls and cheer bad ones. Now, maybe you can find me a team in the NFL that doesn’t have those kinds of fans, especially in the heat of a playoff games. I’m a huge Packer fan, and, although I’m glad to see the proper calls made, I can see getting caught up in the moment at Lambeau, especially if they haven’t had a chance to see the replay.

You also have a modicum of a point about “glurge” stories, but, you know what, they are part of NFL football. It’s all part of the human interest angle that makes football appeal to a wide variety of people who may not otherwise care about the game.

So, in other words, just fucking relax, stop with the Packer-hating, and, don’t get tears all over yourself, you sad, whiny Viking fan.

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Hey, why not? He gets all the credit for touchdowns and wins, may as well blame him for the losses and bad stuff, too.

The subject of one of my favorite commercials. It’s one of those Mastercard commercials. If you haven’t seen it, Brett Favre, the Packers QB is wandering around town. As bad stuff happens, (guys hit the water main, guy parks too far away from the gas pump, a guy carrying groceries has the bottom falls), he MMQBs it in this deadpan Mississippi drawl. “I woulda double-bagged it.” “I woulda parked closer to the pump.” “Monday morning quarterbacking? Priceless.” I love it because you know it’s all he hears.

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Where did I put my cough drops? Cough cough cough fuckyou cough cough.

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By the way, Packer fans, great game and great team. I didn’t see too many games of theirs during the regular season, but I saw the one after Favre’s father died and the playoff game today. If there’s a year Favre gets number two, I think this is it. I sure as hell wouldn’t want to play em. Once Hasselbeck said, “We’re gonna score” at the coin toss, I knew they’d lost the game, though I anticipated one of those Favre drives with the ball flying 40 or 50 yards to a guy downfield.

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And we can credit your fellow countryman, Rupert Murdoch, for that.

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I don’t hate the Packers. I don’t have emotional energy left, I’m too exhausted by hating the Yankees.

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Can we still go fishin’?

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Favre’s throwing six picks next week, Daddy in the sky or no. That is all.

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I can’t make it, nor my son, how’s about you go with Neri? It’s beautiful this time of year.

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I generally do not read football pits, because it just makes the SDMB football fans look like very big dorks. One should be able to enjoy a game, your team win or lose, and have fun afterward, without letting it affect his life. I can imagine the SDMB football fans sitting around a table with beer and chicken wings looking and talking just like that old Saturday night live skit from the 90’s (“the bearsss”).

You nutty fans want to impress me? Go to the games where its freezing cold, wear nothing but daisy dukes, paint yuorself the color of your team, wear a multi-colored wig, or a home-made berserker helmet, slosh beer around, grin like an idiot, and get yourself on TV. But when the game is over, you get over it. NOW!

With that said, I like and agree with the OP.

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Thanks for your input, Road Rash. :rolleyes:

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Is there anybody in this entire world who can stand(let alone likes) Thiesman, Mcquire, Collinsworth or Esiason? And Mussburger has been wrecking college football for years. Those five guys are personally making me hate watching games and pregame shows.

I say the cloning ban should immediatly be lifted and an entire army of Keith Jacksons be created and age accelerated to cover all football games on all levels.

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Put Madden and his rambling monologues on your list and I’ll shout “No!” to the heavens.

What’s up with Terry Bradshaw and that…thing on his face?

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Wow. If you replace “Daisy Dukes” with “kilts”, that’s a pretty apt description of the stands in the Scottish Premier League.

I was going to comment that I rarely get so excited about club matches in football (football being of course that game one plays with one’s feet), but that a good and exciting international match might get my blood boiling in the way described by some in this thread.

Then I realised you poor 'Murrikens don’t have international matches. :smiley:

Given the amount of vitriol spewed around for what is essentially the national title, it’s probably for the best, perhaps! :wink:

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Ooooh. Now that’s just cold, Coldie!