01-11-2016, 11:56 PM
(01-11-2016, 10:48 PM)Belsnickel Wrote: There is no ambiguity in the rule. As for the part up top, let me see if I can get you to understand me. I said I did not have enough evidence to conclude the refs were biased. That's a period there. I wasn't talking about that one call (even though I made my position abundantly clear on that as well), I was saying overall. I said there was no bias (not that there is a lack of evidence for me) in the call because there were multiple infractions going on, but it took Jones hitting a ref to draw the flag. A penalty so egregious it is mentioned in the rules as being necessary to report to the Commissioner.
Um...... I gave an example of a player touching a ref, yet he wasn't flagged, so how's there no ambiguity? Did the ref mistake Doug Martin, who was dressed in full uniform, was a fan?
Texans player touching a ref at 18 seconds, and then his teammate slaps his hand away at 21 seconds, and at 1:07 a player bumps a ref and looks like he even shoves him a bit.
That was just picking the first result from a search for fights in the NFL, so I doubt it would be hard to find others.
Refs were and are biased in favor of the Steelers.