Tank McNamara by Bill Hinds for November 07, 2021

Some good points and counterpoints.

The zebra who wants the flag picked up probably has a vested interest in the over.

I remember watching College Gameday, probably 10 or 15 years ago, when Lee Corso was on a good rant about how the refs can affect the momentum and hence the outcome of a game. He said on basically any given play a ref can throw the flag and say “Holding. offense, blah blah blah….” at any given point in a game and take a big play off the board or push a team back a bit and thus be a momentum killer for that team. I think that he was inferring that a holding call can be real subjective and a lot of the calls are in the “gray” area as far as interpretation goes. Corso also made the point that certain crews tended to be a bit more flag happy than others perhaps a bit unhappy with a bush call he observed.

However, if you stretch Corso’s logic a bit, it can also be construed that a ref can swing a game in favor of one team for many purposes such as ensuring a certain team wins for the sake of enhancing ratings in future regular season, conference title, bowl and playoff matchups or perhaps to even make certain bettors happy by covering a number….. Point shaving has happened in NCAA hoops, so why not on the grid-iron for either the NCAA or NFL?

Nobody cares about the spirit of the game. All they care about is if the team they bet on wins.

And candlesticks make a nice wedding present.

Spectator sports should be considered “entertainment”. The gambling and such should be secondary. In the case of a subjective call, where the outcome (who wins) will be unaffected, let them play.

As long as Sean Payton has a job in the NFL, let’s not talk about integrity.

Is that how the Jets scored twice in the 4th Q Thursday night?

If sitting on the defense is a penalty, I wonder what standing on them should bring. On every short yardage play, my opponent was falling to a hands & knees position at the snap of the ball. Its next to impossible to move a man from that position; so I jumped up on his back (with large cleats). I guess the ref didn’t notice the screaming, as I didn’t get penalized, and he didn’t try it again.

As a former football official, I can tell you what we do say a) Well, if buddy hadn’t mugged the corner, the back would have been tackled for a loss, orb) Damn, if 86 hadn’t done something stupid, that would have counted. Coach is gonna flip when he sees the video.

We have compassion – but it just doesn’t factor into what we call.

Give the losers the score.

NFL integrity?? Now that is a joke.

This is very funny.

Come on. The refs will just blow a different call later to keep things equal.

All I have to say about football officiating is that the only people that get screwed harder than the professionals at a brothel on Saturday nights is the University of Kentucky football team when they’re playing one of the old 6 SEC powers. Lose by 3 when the refs blew a blatantly obvious face mask call, then flagged the coach for pointing out the missed call, then finished it off by not calling a blatant pass interference on the 4th down play that would have been well within FG range if they’d called the face mask and not screwed us further by penalizing the coach. Been that way for my entire 46-year-old life. SEC officiating is the worst anywhere.

It’s all political commentary and money.

The NFL officiating is moving much closer to the integrity of the NBA…which is only slightly better than the WWE.