Refs and Replay don’t work
NBA officiating has been horrible this year. I know we say that every year about most sports, but that’s because it continues to get worse. Want to know why? Gambling. These crooked fucks are fixing games left and right. Open your eyes. So, gambling and Replay.
Replay does not work. It’s there to “get the call right”. As we can see from the Celtics game vs the Pacers they didn’t get it right.
This shit right here is why everyone believes so strongly int he gambling reason. It’s so obviously wrong someone has to be in on the take. But, I’m one to believe it is just plain old fashion shitty craftmanship. These refs use replay as a crutch. Shit, they’ve been taught to use replay as a crutch. The NBA instituted replay just a couple years ago and have taken the unbearable last 5 minutes of a Basketball game with the time outs, and TV stoppage, fouls, etc to a new height of nauseating and unbearable. The 5 minute game delay to check if the ball flicks Jockic’s pubic hair before landing out of bounds. Or don’t get me started on the flagrant fouls. Never mind how soft the game has gotten (Thanks Lebron), but the necessity to look at the monitor every time someone may have had a fore arm swipe across their head while the heart and soul of the Celtics is flopping around like a mackerel and every other play someone hits the deck writhing in pain. Ugghhhh, the agony. Oh, did I mention they got the call wrong? They got it wrong! They get it wrong all the damn time.
Replay is fairly new in the NBA, but the NFL is creeping up on 30 years of this bullshit. The challenge rule started in 1999. How many hot garbage calls do we have to run through to prove this doesn’t work? I mean too many to count, but just off the top of my head the high leverage shit calls, Non Pass interference Saints vs. Rams NFC Championship game, Dez’s catch/ no catch, Megatron’s catch/ no catch, Green Bay’s fail Mary, the non Pass interference on Gronk vs. the Panthers. I’m sure I miss a ton (Tuck rule?! Naw fuck that). It does not work.
Let the refs call the game in real time. It’s 2024. Put a team of guys and gals and theys in NY and LA to watch the games. If there is some egregious call missed they make a phone call or hologram themselves in and it’s corrected in 5 seconds. Make them wear the freaking ref uniforms and film them. Make them official officials with Gene Sterator and name an old NBA ref, I don’t give a shit. Although the NBA refs ass all probably retire filthy rich from the cut. They don’t need the gig.
Regardless, in both the NBA and NFL it’s turning the product into something other than sport if it hasn’t already. You can’t even celebrate a game winner with out pausing for the replay. Poor Tom Brady could not fully enjoy the 29-3 comeback as James White dove into the endzone because he knew it was under review. He anticipated these attention hog refs making it about themselves calling Sweet Feet down at the 1/2 inch line. It’s bullshit.
Forget the investigation Jaylen. Gambling is here to stay and really, it’s always been a part of sports. But, replay? Get rid of that shit. It was designed to get the calls right for all the degenerate gamblers, but all it’s done is created another avenue for corruption and incompetence.