frolichoek

I love the way that you continue to miss my point. I will not cut them some slack if they are obviously deciding to not call a penalty.

I will cut them some slack if they can't see everything, or the action happes too fast, or that there is a lot going on.

Whenever an official decides to arbitrarily not call a penalty because of the situation, matchups, or how many penalties have already been called, they are tampering with the fabric of the game.

Like my earlier point, everyone would be screaming at the TV if Peyton Manning made an pass beyond the line of scrimmage. An NFL official would call that. He wouldn't say "Boy, we sure have called a lot of penalties on the Colts today. I don't think I should call that.". This is exactly what happens in the NHL and NBA, so much that the players now expect it. Shaq will whine that the officials didn't call a foul on someone defending him, but he commits an offensive foul virtually every time he touches the ball. If the game were called according to the rules, Shaq would foul out in the first quarter of every game.

And, I never claimed that I could do a better job than any of the professionals on the ice, court, whatever. I simply have the expectation that they do the job they are paid to do....make the playing field even for both teams.

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