The length of commercial breaks is simply painful.
Is it me or have the refs been pretty terrible in both games today?
I can’t believe after a close game like that the difference was a pointless late hit.
Hand was definitely on the scale in the Bengals game.Is it me or have the refs been pretty terrible in both games today?
There was a big missed call in the first game, other than that, the refs seemed to be decent enough in that game. The AFC refs were rough.
I'm not a fan of any of the four teams that played yesterday, but I felt a lot of the calls were bad. Certainly a lot of stuff they let go other Sundays.As a 49ers fan, the NFC game sucked. As a 49ers fan and Football fan, I think we were robbed of the game we should have had. Once Purdy went down, the game was pretty much over, especially since Josh Johnson proved that what Purdy was doing before today was no fluke. I also saw that it is a UCL injury and it might lead to a Tommy John issue. That is such a disappointing end for a cinderella type season but I hope he comes back better than ever. Hopefully it's not Tommy John and with a boosted up OLine, and an offseason of building the arm strength, I do feel good about Purdy being the QB. If it is a Tommy John, I hope Lance shows something big because I'm really close to moving away from the Trey Lance experiment. I also don't want to see a same issue as last year with Jimmy and will he or won't he be traded.
I'm not a fan of any of the four teams that played yesterday, but I felt a lot of the calls were bad. Certainly a lot of stuff they let go other Sundays.
I'm also not in the "is teh rigged!!!" group, but there's nothing like some shitty, one-sided reffing to keep that mindset alive.
Certainly the Niners were doomed when Purdy went out, and they still would've had a hard time keeping up once the Eagles started scoring.
The zebras have been shit for years. There were a couple of seasons where there were referee lockouts (2012, 2015), when the regulars were replaced with scabs. The calls were particularly egregious in those years, but even after 2015, the regulars seemed to continue this disastrous trend with a plethora of bad calls that even a blind person could see were bogus. Calls that sometimes drastically changed the outcome of a critical game. My particular favorite one to despise right now is Shawn Hochuli. He really takes the cake when it comes to bad calls. His father, Ed, he most certainly is not.
As for corrupt officiation, there is a long and documented history of such corruption. This is not some fringe conspiracy theory thing that armchair quarterbacks lament over, but a wide-spread epidemic that undermines the integrity of nearly every major sports organization in existence.
Just because we want something to be so, does not make it so, particularly in light of overwhelming supporting evidence to the contrary.
- The 3 Biggest Referee Scandals in Sports History (sportscasting.com)
- NFL Referees: The Corruption of the National Football League (Bleacher Report)
- How former ref Tim Donaghy conspired to fix NBA games (espn.com)
- FIFA bans former referee for life for bribery, match-fixing (FOX Sports)
- 2007 NBA betting scandal - Wikipedia
In the first quarter of Sunday's NFC Championship Game, Niners rookie quarterback Brock Purdy suffered a torn ulnar collateral ligament in his right elbow that will keep him out for six months, a source told ESPN's Adam Schefter on Monday. Based on that timeline, Purdy could return around the start of training camp or, perhaps, a couple of weeks into it.
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