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(46,301 posts) Mon Sep 10, 2012, 12:20 PM Sep 2012

I saw a couple people at different places blaming the officiating for the Packers losing.

No.

The Packers played like SHIT yesterday.

It wasn't the officials.

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I saw a couple people at different places blaming the officiating for the Packers losing. (Original Post) Archae Sep 2012 OP

I saw that game pipi_k Sep 2012 #1

Both teams got some awful calls. The Pack stunk it up. Scuba Sep 2012 #2

I heard a rare unkind word from Al Michaels last night. sofa king Sep 2012 #3

pipi_k

(21,020 posts)

1. I saw that game

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 12:48 PM

Sep 2012

The Packers played like shit.

IMO.

Hey, but what can you do when some fans are so blinded they can't be objective about their favorite teams.

I like the Pats and am not shy about saying they play like shit when they really play like shit. They played like shit during the preseason.

Scuba

(53,475 posts)

2. Both teams got some awful calls. The Pack stunk it up.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 01:07 PM

Sep 2012

sofa king

(10,857 posts)

3. I heard a rare unkind word from Al Michaels last night.

Reply to Archae (Original post)

Mon Sep 10, 2012, 01:53 PM

Sep 2012

Apparently the scab refs folded the two-minute warning into the score at 1:58. I wasn't paying enough attention to see if it was corrected or not, but Michaels was quick to point out that the call was wrong and that it was going to punish Pittsburgh by costing them a time-out of their own. Or something.

Anyway, the point is that referees don't want to hear themselves discussed in the games or afterwards... unless you want people to see what happens when the league fails to negotiate a contract with the real referees.

Then complaining works rather well for the real referees.

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