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marty -> RE: The Packers (12/10/2009 8:52:45 PM)
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As I stated earlier Craig, I gave the 1st meeting with Packers at Vikes a 'sway' of a (out of 5) in favor of the VIKINGS. The 2nd meeting the refs preferred the Pack, but the Vikes still found a way to win, but it did NOT register on my 'sway' scale, it was mostly well officiated. The Packer/Raven game I gave a 1, nearly a 2, highly in favor of the Pack.
The Pack has been penailzed heavily because their OL has been so poor, and their 2ndary cheats, committing PI nearly every play. They play very aggressively on defense, the refs didn't even notice Johnny Jolly in the 4th quarter whacking Flacco pretty good WELL after the whistle was blown. He is a dirty player that recieved a 15 yard penalty for slamming his head into Chester Taylor after he had already hit Taylor with his head BEFORE the play was whistled dead. It was the SECOND hit that drew the flag, he should have been ejected from the game.
PETE
When a murder takes place, and you can't find the motivation, it doesn't mean the murder didn't take place. It COULD have been the higher ups that want parity and more things to come down to the last few weeks (more revenue), or it could have been A LOT more was bet on the Ravens so one ref was paid off, or it could have been just a biased ref that preferred the Pack. Just because I can't provide the answer, doesn't mean the obvious bias was just by CHANCE.
The problem with the argument of how difficult it is to officiate, is that it was NOT too difficult in the for the refs to throw 4 flags on the Ravens' 2ndary, while you had at least 4 just as eggregious PIs on the Pack during the same period that were NOT called. They didn't seem to NOTICE the Pack committing PI until the Pack had a nice lead and just 3 minutes were left to play in the 3rd quarter.
It has NOTHING to do with favorite teams. I think the refs favored the Vikes in the ast GB/Minnesota game, registered a 1 on my 'sway' ascale, just like GB/Baltimore and Minnesota/Arizona also registered the same in favor of GB and Arizona this last week. There was another game where I thought the refs favored the Vikes heavily, and the Pittsburgh game seemed like the refs favored the Steelers at the end.
There have been MANY games in the Vikings' past where I thought the game was well officiated and the Vikes were outplayed and lost. Maybe it just stands out this year because the Vikes have lost so few games, and in their only 2 losses they seemed to have been hosed at the tail end of the Pittsburgh game, but seemed to be getting biased officiating against them from the START of the Arizona game. I don't know HOW the refs could have missed on a crucial 3rd down early on, Rice was not only interefered with well before the ball was there, the defender ALSO grabbed his facemask BEFORE the ball was there. Missing something like that shows clear bias, and when you see something like that early on, your guess on who is going to win the game (or cover the spread) is likely to be on the mark.
I don't think it's a FELONY for a ref to show clear bias and 'sway' a game. It has NOTHING to do with the league being against Brett Favre, he's been favored much of his career, and has recieved some favoritism THIS year. I think if they ARE messing with games, it's done for and against the same teams, it's more likely it has something to do with a spread or more parity. Besides that, don't you think they would get caught if they kept favoring or going against the SAME teams ?
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