Awful NFL officiating.

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(09-19-2016, 03:16 PM)Dill Wrote: I am curious as to why Bengals fans think the Refs would favor the Steelers, or be ordered to favor the Steelers, as some believe. Redskins fans were making similar claims after their loss last Monday night.

I don't think refs blatantly favor the Steelers. Or the Pats. Or the Cowboys. 

I do think that when a call is bang bang, and a judgement call is instantaneous, a ref will lean his initial call towards a certain team. Being a Bengals and an NFL fan i can say with certainty, the Brown, Lions, Bengals, etc. etc. don't get the benefit of a quick judgement call. 

The Bengals had two 'knee' plays yesterday. Knee in the end zone and knee on the Boyd tackle. On both plays the Bengals did not receive the benefit of the doubt. The calls were out of bounds and fumble. The out of bounds i'm more "ehhhhhh w/e", Marv should have challenged it. The Boyd tackle...there is no physical way possible that a ref saw that ball come out before the knee was down. Yet the instantaneous call was fumble. There is zero common sense in that call. If it's not seen, the call should be down by contact and let replay overturn it if was a fumble. 

Teams that have a winning history get the benefit of the doubt calls when it comes to catch/no catch, fumble/no fumble, touchdown/no touchdown. i chalk it up to human nature more than bias. 

Someone needs to confirm or deny this...but was there a play earlier in the game where there was some doubt about a Brown catch/fumble? I know it happened in the Redskins game and i believe it was ruled a catch and fumble on the field--no? I'm a little fuzzy if it happened in the Bengals game and can't remember what was called if it did. 

This isn't about some wacky conspiracy...they're out to get us. It's simply the way the world works. To the winner goes the spoils. And the benefit of the doubt when the play is bang bang.