[TomGuy]

So long as the official "officials" are hell bent on manipulating the outcome of games instead of being impartial and calling the games honestly I'll not pay for a ticket to watch a game.

I have posted in other related threads: Refs have prefs.

It has seemed more overt this season in both college and NFL games.

Yesterday, for example, the refs just made up a rule that the offense 'set' too fast and didn't give the defense enough time to 'set' themselves. Refs made them replay the down. The offense needed just inches on 4th down. They got it before judgment call; they lost it after the judgement call replay.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Speaking of refs in college…if my memory is correct, the same crew that totally blew that SC Michigan first down measurement last season called the Duke Texas A&M game….and they were lit up by ESPN for missing agregious pass interference calls, and one catch/non catch call, late in the game.

I can’t believe that crew was ever allowed near another practice facility, let alone a bowl game, after the SC Michigan fiasco last year. No wonder the Big East imploded…..

[Dr. Sivana]

Yesterday, for example, the refs just made up a rule that the offense 'set' too fast and didn't give the defense enough time to 'set' themselves.

That's one thing I always liked about baseball. There's little that has to do with "intent". Was the pitcher's foot on the rubber or not? Did the catcher interfere, or not? Basketball is the worst on assigning mind-reading to the officials. Football is getting there (new versus old rules on face masking, for instance). Basketball makes a distinction between fould done on purpose, and fouls that are flagrant. ?!?!