Came across a post on another forum that I highly agree with...
The regular refs are biased towards certain players or teams. While I don't think it is something that is being ordered by the NFL, the NFL has definitely profitted off it's super players and super teams.
Now come in a new set of officials. They have no biases that have developed over years of working for the NFL. They call it like they see it. They make mistakes, but their mistakes seem to be not favoring one team over another.
The result....Good teams aren't as good as they aren't getting beneficial referee treatment.
This is very true and I have seen it go on for years with the REGULAR REFS...with Packers being 1 of the teams on the beneficial end more often than not. I remember Packers extending their Lambeau win streak over the Lions with 1 of the most absurd calls ever that even had Brett Favre befuddled...but of course he didn't complain
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/recap?gid=2 ... 09&prov=ap
GREEN BAY, Wis. (AP)—Samkon Gado’s first passing attempt was ugly.
Other than that, Green Bay’s rookie running back played a starring role Sunday night in the Packers’ 16-13 overtime victory over the Detroit Lions.
Gado rushed for 171 yards and a touchdown, allowing Brett Favre to play the steady, more conservative game he had been promising for weeks but hadn’t yet delivered.
“I think he’s making the most of his opportunity,” Favre said. “He just had an outstanding game.”
But when Gado flipped the ball out of the end zone in the fourth quarter, he nearly threw the game away with it.
The Lions wrapped up Gado in his own end zone with 6:59 remaining in regulation, prompting Gado to try to toss the ball forward. He was flagged for intentional grounding, resulting in an apparent safety that would have put the Lions ahead by two.
But officials huddled and ruled that Gado had attempted a legal pass, giving the Packers another chance.
“That was confusing, to be honest with you,” Favre said. “But he’s a bright guy with a lot of talent.”
And if Gado hadn’t flipped the ball away, he almost surely would have been caught for a safety. “I honestly can’t fault him for that,” Favre said.
Lions linebacker Earl Holmes didn’t agree with the officials’ call. Even if Gado’s flip was a legal pass, Holmes said the holding penalty officials also called on the Packers on that play occurred in the end zone and should have been an automatic safety.
“There’s no other way to tell me that that was not a safety,” Holmes said. “You can’t explain it.”