NFL Refs Fuck the Lions Again
October 15th, 2019 at 8:45 AM ^
Hockenson not hanging onto that TD catch ended up costing the team for the win.
October 15th, 2019 at 9:07 AM ^
Golladay had a drop to on a big first down. Do they put Vasoline on these NFl balls or something? How did our TE, the 8th pick in the draft, drop an easy TD???
October 15th, 2019 at 11:27 AM ^
Kerryon “dropped” one too on 3rd down. He dropped it changing hands. That was a bad reversal of a catch.
October 15th, 2019 at 8:46 AM ^
The two hands calls were so egregious that Booger went off about them until the booth had to tell him to stop. And then the play by play guy said 'it's a missed call'. That was it. No more discussion. Please don't tell me that Booger was then satisfied and stopped calling out the refs on his own. The director told him to stop - probably because the League was telling him to make it stop.
That was the first NFL game I've watched in 2 years. And probably the last for another two years...
I was really hoping Fowler and Patricia would have gone off on the refs. Just fucking gone off.
October 15th, 2019 at 8:47 AM ^
The great internet connection I have at work contributed to this double post. Alas, I should know better than to click 'Save' twice, anyway!
October 15th, 2019 at 8:51 AM ^
I loved how Jon Parry kept trying to spin it on air trying to justify the calls of his reffing buddies. I give Booger McFarland credit for going right back at him and calling him out on how egregious the calls were. So much so, that Parry basically had to agree with him and say. "Yes, they missed that one."
October 15th, 2019 at 9:13 AM ^
The refs were terrible and should be fired, but I'm over blaming them for losses. That game should have been over late in the 3rd quarter when the Lions got that lucky bounce pick near their own goal line and returned it deep into Green Bay territory. Turn just one of those million field goals into a touchdown and the Lions win going away.
October 15th, 2019 at 9:22 AM ^
That's a terrible argument. The Lions did what was necessary to win the game and bad calls took it away. Should they have to win by 11 points just to overcome the 10 points that the refs will gift to their opponent? Why can't they win by a minimum of 1 point like the rest of the league?
October 15th, 2019 at 12:28 PM ^
It is what it is. Knowing we were screwed by officiating doesn't make this or the 2016 OSU game any better. Sometimes the answer is yes, you do have to win by 11 instead of 1 to make sure the refs don't screw you, and Detroit (or 2016 Michigan for that matter) had every opportunity to do so.
It reminds me of a documentary I saw about the 1988 ND-Miami game when the Hurricanes got screwed by a bad call at the end. Jimmy Johnson even told his team "That's why you can't leave it up to the officials." Hopefully the Lions take that mentality and learn to capitalize on opportunities and blow teams out moving forward. Otherwise this becomes a Moises Alou Cubs situation where you focus on the one bad call and let it cause an avalanche of mistakes moving forward.
October 15th, 2019 at 9:20 AM ^
Also, boycott State Farm and their stupid Brett Favre Jr ads. Find another insurance company that doesn't use the NFL's biggest douche to promote it's product.
October 15th, 2019 at 9:25 AM ^
Refs need to be paid more and have open books on their finances.
October 15th, 2019 at 9:46 AM ^
What irritates me is that there does not seem to be any real system in place that holds refs accountable for mistakes. I get that refs are human and every now and again, mistakes will be made. We've all made mistakes on the job. But some of these are just truly egregious misses that in many cases cost teams the game, or a shot in the Super Bowl if you play for the Saints. That is not fixed with a simple "I'm sorry."
Like, how does the ref not get docked pay for blatantly missed calls, or if its repeat offense, suspended for X amount of games without pay, or even banned from officiating in the league? I'm not going to go so far as to say the NFL is rigged (although it may someday go that route with sports betting becoming more legal and more prevalent across the country), but again, it just seems like there is no system in place to hold refs accountable for bad calls. All that happens is a BS public statement about how the situation will be reviewed internally, and they will work to make sure it never happens again.
Wash, rinse, repeat. And the wheels on the bus go round and round.
October 15th, 2019 at 10:17 AM ^
Time to vote with your dollars and your eyeballs. I know after last night, I’m done with the NFL. Last night was repugnant, and I don’t even like the Lions.
October 15th, 2019 at 10:39 AM ^
As an Eagles fan, you guys got a really good squad this year. However, the league seems hell bent on screwing you guys over. I hope you guys use this game to go on a run.
Oh and thanks fir exposing horrific NFL officiating. We are all Lions fans today
October 15th, 2019 at 10:52 AM ^
I'm so inured to the NFL hosing the Lions at this point I just appreciate the NFL going out of its way to make sure all of America understands how insane our history with this is. Everyone complains about ref jobbing for their teams, so it's good to have one team out there that nobody can argue gets it worse.
It's like when people would complain about their college roommates around my best friend Tres, who was in South Quad with Andrew Shirvell. And think, this happens right before we play Penn State, the ref-bitchingmost fanbase in college football. Hon, you're not even the most ref-screwed team with a lion mascot that wears blue.
October 15th, 2019 at 11:18 AM ^
Mrs. Ford needs to step up big for the franchise (doubtfully) and as far as the great one Rodgers, he’s won only one Super Bowl title as many as Trent Dilfer. How many has Brady won?
October 15th, 2019 at 11:54 AM ^
"We were gonna fuck you in the ass Sunday, but we fucked you in the ass on Monday Night instead"
October 15th, 2019 at 12:04 PM ^
Not the first time the lions got shafted by the zebras
Remember this?
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iqwZzFsIfTw
October 15th, 2019 at 1:04 PM ^
I normally don't blame the refs for a loss but last night I do.
2 bogus "hands to the face" penalties in the waning minutes at the most crucial times that cost them 30 yards of field and a crucial 1st down for Green Bay?
That game was a fucking travesty.
October 15th, 2019 at 2:50 PM ^
I tuned in late and, seeing the Lions were up, figured they'd find a way to lose. Probably through their own ineptitude, but with a chance of a loss finding its way to stick itself to them.
Phantom hands to the face is a new one to me.