Blitzhawk
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scutterhawk":9u9ww4wf said:Point is, you can play the games FLAWLESSLY, but if the Refs have a pre game winner in their books, you CAN'T overcome that.oregonhawkfan":9u9ww4wf said:Its all good mann. We love your writings but it is not the end of the world much like this loss was not. Yea, the refs really took it to us this game but that is no excuse. We just have to play well enough to not make ourselves susceptible to bad calls. We missed plenty of plays; DangeRuss made some mistakes, our WR's missed some, and our great D had plenty of gaffs.
This game just gives our guys a lot to study and improve upon. I still feel great about this team and where we are heading this year. Nothing like a good eye opener to refocus the men. I kind of felt like this would have been a bonus win anyway (def would have been nice) after beating panthers and texans in 10am away games.
Luck is good QB (almost as good as RW at this point, hehe) and the whole colts team played much better than I seen in other games (kudos to them for getting up for us). Don't get me wrong, they are a good team but I think we are still much better on any given day.
Sooo, I am over it, moving on to next week. Don't let it ruin your day or anything. We all good.
Go Hawks.
Now you might be thinking that I'm being paranoid, and silly about this, but until they train unbiased robots to officiate the games, there's always going to be Referees that are imperfect.
And don't tell me that there's no such thing as corruption in the NFL.
Kind of makes ya wonder about the Las Vegas betting world, and where they might fit in, when it comes to paying off bets eh?. Super Bowl XL?
We always joke about that as well but my honest belief is 2 factors affect the reffing.
1) Refs became refs because they were fans of the game first so they are bound to have their favorite teams and players. This is bound to skew their perception on "close" calls.
2) Whether it comes down from the head office or just the refs themselves, I really get the feeling there is a desire to keep the games as close as possible. I could totally see this being influenced by the media and big markets but there def seems to be the traditional east coast bias in other areas as well (scheduling, east coast teams limited western travel...). I see this a lot not just in our games but others as well.
Interesting conspiracy stuff anyway.