NFL 2012-2013 Season

[Mr.Bill]

I disagree.. Like I said earlier on a Hail Mary pass the defense is ALWAYS given the benefit of doubt.. That's why even in a game where the refs are calling pass interference constantly, if the game ends on a Hail Mary they swallow their whistles and let the defensive players mug the receivers..

But IMO even in this specific case even without the benefit of doubt coming into play I don't think the regular refs would have missed this play.. It was obvious the defensive player had the ball, and had the ball held against his chest, and had procession.

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[Mr.Bill]

Honestly I don't know who was in the booths..Since this started I have wondered if regular NFL people were doing the replays, of if they were also replacements.. I never heard either way,,,, Anyway even with the regular refs many times the 'booth' officials are reluctant to overturn the call on the field..

And in this case, because the replacements refs had been taking a total beating in the media and from the coaches and players before Monday nights game maybe, maybe the booth officials might have been even more reluctant to show them up by overturning their call on the field. Before this past weekends games the NFL sent out a strongly worded memo to the players, and the coaches to go easy on the replacements,, Maybe the booth officials got the same memo.

And lets face it, these guys are human.. If the game was in Green Bay the call on the field, and if it came to it, the call in the booth might have been different.. One thing I noticed BIG TIME with these replacement refs is they were being influenced a lot by the players and coaches.. Thus the late flags, the no flags, etc.. Again, IMO if this game was in GB, it might have been totally different.

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[Mr.Bill]

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[The Dude]

[Mr.Bill]

I have been bitching and moaning and criticizing the regular refs for 3-4 years now because even their work hasn't been great, it hasn't been good because 1) The reality is they are only PART TIME workers/officials.. As amazing as it sounds, even though the NFL pulls in BILLIONS, and it is now by far the most popular sport in American, the regular refs are only part-time.. In a way they're not even professionals.. and 2) the NFL has added rule after rule, and regulation after regulation the past few years.. I don't know if anyone can keep up with all the rules the league has been adding lately..

Anyway I do miss criticizing the regular refs. Bitching about the replacements is too easy, it's not as much fun..

[Ozzone]

[OGPhilly]

I'm still waiting for someone to explain this to me: They claimed the "ruling on the field" stands because they needed indisputable evidence to overturn the TD call. But there were two simultaneous rulings on the field; one of a touchdown and one of an interception, so how did they decide that the touchdown was actually the ruling on the field and the burden of proof falls to showing it wasn't?