Uncle Si":34rkyeo6 said:
The OPI was the only call that didnt seem to fit that narrative. I thought it was too small to call, even if it was "letter of the law"
Yeah, there's a ton of gray area in this stuff, and the way I think about calls isn't binary (that DOES get called, or DOESN'T get called), but rather, how many times out of a 100 does that penalty get called? Once you allow for the variation that exists in the real world into your mental model then all of the BS of fandom starts to melt away.
For me, Kittle's push off is absolutely a penalty by the letter of the law, and it's a penalty that gets called maybe 60-70% of the time that it happens? How mad can you be about it then?
But the bigger issue is that fans argue all of this stuff opportunistically.
By way of example for this case, let's take all the 49ers fans who think it's BS that Kittle was called for OPI in that situation. Okay, apparently they think OPI shouldn't be called strictly. Now of all of those 9ers fans, what % of them ALSO argued that Warner correctly shouldn't have been called for DPI in the endzone against Hollister because Hollister had committed OPI so it was a good no call. 75% of them? 80% of them? 90% of them? It looks like in that case they believe that OPI should be strictly considered, even when it comes to DPI.
Once you think about it that way, the only obvious conclusion is that at minimum 75% of these people actually don't give a sh!t about OPI and it being called one way or the other: they just want their team to win. And of course they do, because they're fans, and that's what fans want. :lol:
I'm going after my fellow 9ers fans in this example (and using an example against the Seahawks not only because it was recent but also because I'm on a Seahawks board), but I'm not just kissing ass here: you better believe that I think Seahawks fans are JUST AS FULL OF SH!T on this stuff too. :lol: :2thumbs: