Quote:Good post, but I have to disagree about the refs costing us the game. Any team that is relying on calls from the refs to win isn't playing winning football. When (not if) we start winning again someday, we'll start getting the benefit of more calls in our favor (to the victor goes the spoils); until then, we have to deal with the fact that 'this is the bed we've made for ourselves and now we get to sleep in it.'

 

Here's the thing, though...

 

Why is it acceptable to allow/accept shady officiating to begin with? I hear comments like this a lot from a lot of different fans and it's said in such a matter-of-fact way that I don't get it. You have to start winning before you start getting obvious calls in your favor? That's borderline insane.

 

I do agree that the refs didn't directly cost us the game, however. In the games where the refs seemingly tried to jack us, we still had a chance to win at the end of each one and didn't get the job done (which to me validates your point). However, a case can also be made that if these games had been called correctly we may not have been in that situation to begin with. Who knows?

 

One thing I'm really curious about that I don't think has been touched on is this: How does this impact the players on game day knowing the likelihood of dubious officiating?

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