NFL Officials

Cruize · 10-25-2010, 04:32 PM

The officiating in college and in the pros is just horrible. The replay system in both games has digressed as well. Both games protect the refs decision on the field more than they actually get the call right. In the beginnig, I thought the college guys got it right more than wrong. That's not the case anymore. One of my peeves is the clock. Watch it in regards to the home teams vs. the visitors in drive situations where time is a factor in college. When the home team makes a first down, going to the ground or out of bounds, the clock stops usually after one second but sometimes immediately. When the visitor has the ball, I've seen up to four seconds regularily run off. Horrible.

SaintsBro · 10-26-2010, 11:45 AM

Originally Posted by Cruize

One of my peeves is the clock. Watch it in regards to the home teams vs. the visitors in drive situations where time is a factor in college. When the home team makes a first down, going to the ground or out of bounds, the clock stops usually after one second but sometimes immediately. When the visitor has the ball, I've seen up to four seconds regularily run off. Horrible.

There was a complaint about the Raiders doing this, in one or two of their home games in preseason. I don't honestly follow the Raiders enough to know or care whether it's still happening, or what the result of the complaints were, whether the story went anywhere...but I remember reading a few mentions of this, that the clock was stopping erratically and that the refs did not seem to be as vigilant about the time when the visitors had the ball. I'm not sure what ultimately happened with that, but it sure does sound like the Raiders and Al Davis to me, though!

10-25-2010, 04:32 PM	#1
Cruize 1000 Posts + Join Date: May 2007 Posts: 4,459	The officiating in college and in the pros is just horrible. The replay system in both games has digressed as well. Both games protect the refs decision on the field more than they actually get the call right. In the beginnig, I thought the college guys got it right more than wrong. That's not the case anymore. One of my peeves is the clock. Watch it in regards to the home teams vs. the visitors in drive situations where time is a factor in college. When the home team makes a first down, going to the ground or out of bounds, the clock stops usually after one second but sometimes immediately. When the visitor has the ball, I've seen up to four seconds regularily run off. Horrible.
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10-26-2010, 11:45 AM	#2
SaintsBro Site Donor Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: in line with my ridiculous CLEAR PLASTIC BAG Posts: 3,650 Blog Entries: 3	Originally Posted by Cruize One of my peeves is the clock. Watch it in regards to the home teams vs. the visitors in drive situations where time is a factor in college. When the home team makes a first down, going to the ground or out of bounds, the clock stops usually after one second but sometimes immediately. When the visitor has the ball, I've seen up to four seconds regularily run off. Horrible. There was a complaint about the Raiders doing this, in one or two of their home games in preseason. I don't honestly follow the Raiders enough to know or care whether it's still happening, or what the result of the complaints were, whether the story went anywhere...but I remember reading a few mentions of this, that the clock was stopping erratically and that the refs did not seem to be as vigilant about the time when the visitors had the ball. I'm not sure what ultimately happened with that, but it sure does sound like the Raiders and Al Davis to me, though!