games are seldom lost (or won) on a single bad call. bad calls are part of the game, and they'll likely always be part of the game.
good teams play well enough that a single bad call will not cost them the game. great teams play well enough that a handful of bad calls will not cost them the game. my team "lost" a wildcard game on a bad call a few years back. of course, before losing the game on the bad call, they gave up 30+ points in the final 20 minutes of the game. they should never put themselves in the position of letting that one call decide the game. that being said, i don't disagree that there were a lot of really bad calls (or non-calls) in that game. while i've advocated in the past that the human element will always factor into the game... this game did have more bad/missed calls than what i'd generally refer to as "acceptable". i might be just a teeny bit biased because i'm very OK with the outcome :) On Sun, Sep 28, 2008 at 4:58 PM, Scott Raley -ITC <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>wrote: > I can not believe what I just saw. Yes it happened on both sides of the > ball > but more against the Cowboys. Like the announcer's said the ref's need to > be > put on ice.. all the things they missed in the game cost the cowboys a lot > of yardage and it cost the skin's yardage, but it cost the cowboys when > they > were in the area of scoring points. Damn. Yeah I know TO and guys dropped > balls, but I still hope the ref's don't get a good grade for that game and > don't make it to the superbowl.. > > > > Yes we played like shit and the skin's knew what they had to do, they were > prep'd but I still feel like we got ref'd like the game two weeks ago that > cost the team a loss because the ref's gave the visitors a penalty that > couldn't be reviewed in the last 30 sec's and the following play the > visitors got a touch down that won the game, the team filed a complaint the > next day and all they were told is that the ref's are graded each game and > would get a strike that would count against them when looking for ref's for > the superbowl.. > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:271254 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5