<a class="postlink" href="http://deadspin.com/5946112/the-lingerie-football-league-announces-that-it-fired-a-couple-crews-which-apparently-are-now-officiating-in-the-nfl-because-of-incompetence" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://deadspin.com/5946112/the-lingeri ... competence</a> Title says it all. This was written before tonight's game, which I did not watch (and I'm not sure I'm going to watch any more football until the real refs come back):
You know what's real fun? Replacement refs haven't hidden their internet profiles. Is it a surprise that replacement refs haven't hidden their online personas? http://www.linkedin.com/pub/lance-easley/14/623/474 What's even more fun is to look for his telephone number and address. Wow. That was easy. http://plusaddress.com/lance-easley-santa-maria-8059389144 You're welcome devil lady. That dude didn't have the clear view (he saw the back of Jennings). The back guy had the better look, but needed to signal the play dead before making the call. Technically, because Mr. Easley called it a TD first, that was the ruling on the field. Doubt we'll see him again as See you next week!!!
See, I took that as a way classier response than Golden Tate trying to tell me that he caught the ball. He knows it was a shitty call, but what do you want him to say? Better just to smile and say nothing than try to lie.
I'm not sure. But saying, I knew it was a touchdown. I knew it was going to stand as a touchdown was pretty obnoxious. I will say, later in the post game show, he was saying that they caught a break and sometimes things go your way. But initially he sounded like the cat that ate the canary.
Better than sounding like the cat that ate the canary, but denied the canary was ever there to start with and even if there were, it must have been the dog.
Oye, I don't support that at all. No mob justice here. They fucked up. But you can't get mad at soliders who lose a war when they're bringing knives to a gunfight. Just completely unfair. They'll be gone by week 5. Let's pray, let's hope. The Packers have 13 games to get back into the mix. 13 games, is a lot of games. 14-2 isn't that hard right?
Actually, I disagree. I can live with this for a few weeks, but if the nfl doesn't do anything about it I will stop watching at some point. They could pull random drunk guys out of the bar and they would do better than that, no exaggeration. RCGT quoted an article where the guy points out that the refs in the pats/ravens game were so bad he didn't know what the score should have been. I'll take that a step further - we don't even know what team's records should be right now. The refs are simply that fucking bad. People will put up with this for now, but when how many lines of coke the refs snorted at halftime has a bigger impact on the game than how the players are performing people are going to stop watching. There's just no point when the calls are this awful. Edit: Has anyone seen an interview with the refs? I really, really want to hear their explanation.
Holy living fuck Did anyone here read Catch 22? Remember that part where Yossarian completely fucks up a mission and they give him a medal to try and hide their incompetence? Yeah, this reminded me of that.
Wow, talk about fucking shady. In the past blatant ref fuckups have often led to rules changes or revisions following the season, but this just smacks of CYAing for the express purpose of denying the regular officials more ammunition for their side of the labor conflict.
Something worth mentioning that people aren't talking about as well. The seahawks committed two penalties on the play, an illegal block in the back and Tate committed obvious pass interference before the ball was caught. It really is the worst officiating on a single play ever. And then to defend it? Wow, just wow.
<a class="postlink" href="http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-triangle/post/_/id/37965/the-sports-guys-mailbox-anti-replacement-refs-edition" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;">http://www.grantland.com/blog/the-trian ... fs-edition</a> Don't worry Simmon's haters...these are reader emails without commentary from him, so its okay. They are fucking hilarious and probably some of the shit we were thinking too.
I am alive. I am more pissed over that game than I have ever been. I can take a loss, fine the best team wins right? Isn't that the way it's supposed to be? Isn't that why we have the refs in the first place? Isn't part of their job to assure the RULES OF THE GAME ARE MOTHERFUCKING UPHELD? Aren't they there for player safety? They are failing at all of the above and beyond. When that pass went up and was caught the place went fucking nuts. The pile was surrounded by players, people on the sidelines. It was fucking pandemonium. Get a grip on the field. Get those that weren’t part of the fucking play out of the god damn way. Move the players back and do the review. And, what in the fuck was Carroll doing out there standing 5 ft from the ref mid field when the final call was made? Get the fuck back over to your sideline. The post game with that shithead, "What? I don't know what you're talking about." Seriously? STFU, take your win that wasn't a win and go to the locker room. All in all, I had a great experience and am so happy I was able to go but man, what a fucking first game to see your team lose live. It's painful and unfair but much in life is. They flashed a quote on the screen at the beginning of the game, "Life is good, football is better." For all of us that love the game, we all know we are stepping into very dangerous territory. If something isn't done, I hope players begin to boycott games because then the fans will, that is unless someone suffers a career ending injury as a result of the shitass refs. Or one of the refs gets literally run over by a player and ends up in the hospital. Edited to add: For everyone bitching about who actually caught the ball.... it doesn't matter because the penalty Tate made in the endzone SHOULD HAVE ENDED THE PLAY. GAH! I'm going to go home get drunk and then die of lack of sleep and pissedoffedness. Yes I made that word up. Shut up.
Maybe one of the worst parts about last night's call was that it absolutely killed any recognition that the Seahawks played a freakin' hell of a game. Rogers spent more time on his back than Ballsack's Presentwife when he's out of town. From the Simmons link above, I laughed at "Golden Gate."