I have visited forums for virtually every team in the league and I can assure you that the exact same "reasons" have been floated everywhere. The same can be said for callers on sports talk radio. Same thing. Just insert team name in the blank and it's the same story.

Every other team’s fans say the lost a conference championship game due to a non call from the refs? I doubt that. And I am in no way blaming every loss on the refs. But I am saying the refs can determine the outcome of a game and take it out of a team’s hands.

Yes. Every other team’s fans complain about EVERY team’s loss claiming we lost bc... “ref reasons”. Whether it was week one or the championship game fans universally state: “we lost bc:... <insert reason here>“ and again almost universally the fan base will use “ref’s” as reason #1.

The Rams/Saints DPI was a missed call, clearly, unambiguously. And imho, the crew that missed the call should never have been allowed on the field again. Instead, Vinovich was selected to ref SBLIV. Effectively he was selected for “excellence” while completely failing on the field. That bothers me more than the missed call bc that truly does call into question the integrity of the NFL. There is no way to recompense the Saints organization fir human failure, mistakes. But, imvho, mistakes of that severity should have a punitive reaction, not a promotion.

Bottom line, all team’s complain about the ref’s..., in every single game ever played, and almost always we state: “our team lost bc the ref’s don’t like us”.

Yes. Every other team’s fans complain about EVERY team’s loss claiming we lost bc... “ref reasons”. Whether it was week one or the championship game fans universally state: “we lost bc:... <insert reason here>“ and again almost universally the fan base will use “ref’s” as reason #1.

The Rams/Saints DPI was a missed call, clearly, unambiguously. And imho, the crew that missed the call should never have been allowed on the field again. Instead, Vinovich was selected to ref SBLIV. Effectively he was selected for “excellence” while completely failing on the field. That bothers me more than the missed call bc that truly does call into question the integrity of the NFL. There is no way to recompense the Saints organization fir human failure, mistakes. But, imvho, mistakes of that severity should have a punitive reaction, not a promotion.

Bottom line, all team’s complain about the ref’s..., in every single game ever played, and almost always we state: “our team lost bc the ref’s don’t like us”.

Well, that surely wasn’t what I was saying and as I pointed out in my breakdown of the losses this year I don’t blame every loss on the refs.

Maybe that's because the NFL has lousy officiating!

That’s one way to look at things, lol. But if you call penalties using a computer, then the flags would fly on just about every play. And games would last eight hours or more, and be a bore to watch. Personally, I wish there were fewer calls, allowing playmakers to be playmakers. I could easily call OH and DPI on every play. Penalties should be egregious, not “technically” meeting the def’n of a penalty. For example, TH#91 received a roughing the passer call a handful of games back. Opposing QB (I can’t recall who it was off the top of my head) was passing, Trex pushed the OL into him, TRex put his hand in the air to block the pass, and as his arm came down, it contacted the QB’s helmet. He didn’t hit him, he wasn’t punching, there was no malice involved, unambiguously. imho, it was a bad call. The idea is to protect the QB from egregious contact, not just incidental contact.

I wish there were fewer of these calls. So, it depends on how you define “lousy”. lol. You have unique insight into that field that I don’t have though. An insight I can’t have.