What Is Even The Point?

[SunsetBengal]

(02-13-2023, 01:21 PM)Soonerpeace Wrote: Just saw all of them on GMFB agree it was a hold. It’s pretty overwhelming that it was a hold. Now many disagree whether it should have been called. I’m in the camp a penalty is a penalty.

Sure, a penalty is a penalty.  Then why not call all of them throughout the course of the game?  I've got a text conversation from during the game, an old teammate of mine and I chatting about "Wow, refs letting them play tonight", to which he replied, "nice to see games decided by players and not controversial calls".  Then after the sideline catch that was overturned, he says "I stand corrected, there's the first controversial call of the night".

It's to the point where it's almost uncanny how predictable these mysterious calls are, when similar or more serious violations have been ignored routinely for most of the game.