What will the NFL do to take care of all the bad officiating going on

[MassPats38]

yeah...BUT...I AM a case..a NUTCASE...and if this society loves ANYTHING it loves a good public nutty...I don't have to be right or have a case...all I need is to be thrusted into the public media..I'll do the rest.

That fact alone makes you an excellent candidate for pro se litigation. Go federal rather than state - those judges will love you.

Read the story of Anthony Martin-Trigona for inspiration. He directly pursued federal district and appellate court judges, on one occasion offering to intervene in a judge's divorce issue claiming neither the judge nor his wife were fit parents and he should be awarded custody. If you can go after the judges sitting on your cases, the Commissioner of the NFL would be mere child's play.

If that individual could wage those wars to this day since the early 1980s, brandish the sword of your constitutional right of access to the courts proudly and make your concerns known!

And better you than PatsDeb. She gets fined, then suspended, and ultimately disbarred. Worst case for you - sanctions on filing new cases and possible civil commitment when the authorities probe the depths of your madness.

 

[Joker]

are you kidding??? it's ALL upside for me versus that spoiled little brat rich kid ex Jet employee. I HAVE NOTHING TO HIDE...he has all kinds of sneaky underhanded crap he's tried to hide for years. Why was Mangini signed into NFL offices on Park Avenue the Thursday before the Pats/Jets game when Goodell dropped the hammer? Why the lies in his bio about being a Redskin fan because Daddy was in DC when everyone he grew up with in New York and played football with KNOWS his senator father had a box for all Jet home games that little rich kid Rog used to take all his H.S. buddies to. I corresponded with people he went to high school with and I have THEIR statements of fact, first person eyewitness accounts. He was ALWAYS a huge Jet fan , always a rich kid bully and always an unbelievable egotist.

How, you ask, did I manage this? I got his high school year book and cold called over a 100 people he went to school with.Dozens of people cooperated with my request to define the young Roger Goodell THEY knew as a classmate.I also got his college records from the rich kid stash school in Pennsylvania he attended on Daddy's dime....graduated with a C minus average in business. Documented verifiable TRUTH..a C minus moron , running the biggest sports enterprise in the world. He's a sneak, a $ucker shot artist and a shameless pimp...traits that have served him well in his rise to the top of the NFL.

 

[IcyPatriot]

As bad as the officiating can be at times ... just about every year the final 4 teams are mostly those who deserve to be there ... how often does the wrong team end up so close to the Super Bowl? So ... when looking at the big picture the missed calls clearly are trivial. Most of the time talent and coaching are way more dominant factors than missed calls. It would be a bit better if they gave more reasons to use the challenge flag ... doubt it will change championship weekend teams of that year.

 

[Tunescribe]

As bad as the officiating can be at times ... just about every year the final 4 teams are mostly those who deserve to be there ... how often does the wrong team end up so close to the Super Bowl? So ... when looking at the big picture the missed calls clearly are trivial. Most of the time talent and coaching are way more dominant factors than missed calls.

I guess the Patriots will put that theory to the test this year:

* Second Jets game.
* Carolina game.

The right non-call and the right call could've landed New England at 11-1 thus far.

 

[Joker]

but the hold on the last play of the Saints game brings it back down to 10-2...it's the call that was never called and will never be called again that is the real travesty.

 

[IcyPatriot]

I guess the Patriots will put that theory to the test this year:

* Second Jets game.
* Carolina game.

The right non-call and the right call could've landed New England at 11-1 thus far.

I don't think that's a fair statement unless one dissects every play for all missed calls I think over the course of a season the calls are a miniscule factor to talent and coaching. I know when I go watch the Patriot's play I see way more penalties than I see when watching them from home.

 

[Tunescribe]

I don't think that's a fair statement unless one dissects every play for all missed calls I think over the course of a season the calls are a miniscule factor to talent and coaching. I know when I go watch the Patriot's play I see way more penalties than I see when watching them from home.

I know what you're saying, but in this case we're talking specifically about end-of-game, outcome-deciding calls/non-calls. Those are in a class of their own.

but the hold on the last play of the Saints game brings it back down to 10-2...it's the call that was never called and will never be called again that is the real travesty.

OK, I'll take 10-2 over 9-3.

 

[Bhelmet]

maximize your chances of getting the better of the officiating.

Herein lies the problem. No sport should ever come to that.

 

[IcyPatriot]

I know what you're saying, but in this case we're talking specifically about end-of-game, outcome-deciding calls/non-calls. Those are in a class of their own.



OK, I'll take 10-2 over 9-3.

Not really ... those are glaring ... because they make for great drama ... we never get to see the long pass or long run that wasn't ... due to a hold or the QB sack and fumble that might have been but one of our D was held ... or our guys holding enough to allow Brady to thrown a seam pass to Gronk ... and it goes on and on ... there's way too many non-calls to focus on the most glaring because they make great drama.

Over the course of a season all the right teams make the playoffs along with a Cinderella or 2. Our defense over the years has always pushed the rules in the physical part of the game ... the Ravens and Steelers also ... the non-calls I think favor us over time rather than hurt us aggressive style teams. I don't believe we stand on any high ground in this issue ... at least defensively.

 

[Bhelmet]

Refs are influencing way too many games and they are not doing so "under the radar".

 

[IcyPatriot]

 

[GaryfromTO]

As bad as the officiating can be at times ... just about every year the final 4 teams are mostly those who deserve to be there ... how often does the wrong team end up so close to the Super Bowl? So ... when looking at the big picture the missed calls clearly are trivial. Most of the time talent and coaching are way more dominant factors than missed calls. It would be a bit better if they gave more reasons to use the challenge flag ... doubt it will change championship weekend teams of that year.

I dunno.
Anytime the Baltimore Ravens or the Dallas Cowboys make it to the Super Bowl, the wrong team is definitely there

 

[captain stone]

but the hold on the last play of the Saints game brings it back down to 10-2...it's the call that was never called and will never be called again that is the real travesty.

Never should've come to that final drive anyway. Pats could've won by 2 scores (Brady missing
a wide wide open Amendola etc.) if they had taken care of easy business earlier.

 

[Krugman]

Absolutely nothing,and they have a damned good reason for that.When they feel the need to tell us,I would love to hear it......

 

[Bobsyouruncle]

Well, since they never admit to making a mistake I can't imagine anything changing.

 

[Uncle Meat]

I am not just talking about Pats games, There were a lot of BS calls today.
The call towards the end of Skins-VaGiants game. The face mask call on the Vikings which negated the winning FG, Cardinals getting robbed....... One can go on and on about how bad the officiating has become. I wonder what Roger "NY" Goodell will do to correct this problem.

They did it to the Bills this week too. They called TWO bad penalties on the Bills when the Falcons were in the Bills' redzone and trying to tie the game near the end of regulation. They called illegal contact on a Safety that didn't even begin to come close enough to touch anybody...that gave the Falcons a first down. Then they called a BS pass interference call on a failed 3rd and 16 pass, setting the Falcons up at first and goal from the 1-yardline. I was livid.

Then of course the Bills could have easily won the game in two different ways after that, but fumbled the ball both times.

You can say "hey, it's the Bills, so who cares," but I care. We win that game, and we're only one win away from the last Wildcard spot. At least I could have pretended, or things would have remained interesting. As it stands, the Bills are pretty much officially done, I'd say.

We more than likely win without those bad calls.

 

[Kdo5]

A new level of absurdity was reached in the 'Skins game where the refs screwed up which down it was. Unbelievable incompetence. Someone should go down for such a blunder. If that happened in a playoff game it would be a complete outrage.

 

[captain stone]

Beat me to it. There was no way that the Deadskins would've thrown that long pass
(which should've been caught anyway) had they known that they still had to convert
to get the 1st down.

 

[Jlaff]

LOL, Joker you would not have much of a case. You are not an intended beneficiary of the NFL's contract with Jeff Triplette (at least that is the argument the NFL would make), particularly since you hate the Jets. Just think of it! All Roger Goodell would have to do is come on here and see how much you bash his beloved team and he would hire the biggest and most expensive lawyers he could find and pound your lowly, Patsloving, sorry ***** into the ground! Besides, based on how the rest of NFL fandom views the Pats and their supposed "teacher's pet" arrangement with the refs, a Pats fan leading the charge probably wouldn't go very far!

You're a 3rd party beneficiary with an agency relationship with the NFL, and consideration flows both ways (fans pay to watch, referee receives portion in wage). Implied term of contract is that you will "get" a properly officiated game. Is that too much of a stretch? Not as familiar with privity doctrine in US.

 

[lurker1965]

They will settle with the real refs so these incompetent scab refs can go back to their day jobs.