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My Football Pet Peeves.

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Hello Everyone to another fanpost of mine. This time talking about my pet peeves in Football. Let's get started.

4. Restricted Numbers

Yeah the whole position has to have a certain number range is a small pet peeve of mine hence it is at number 4. College Ball doesn't have that and it's fun. Let a player where what number he wants and not restrict him to a number range. Also the Refs go into the hundreds why not the players?

3. Similar looking Scoreboards.

Take a look at the current Scoreboards:

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As you can see they all look pretty similar. (scoreboard at the bottom, 1st and 10 on the right, etc...) but the most egregious example is the CBS V. FOX one. They look like carbon copies of one another. The only ones that can be considered unique are the NBC and ESPN ones.


2. Fix everything via replay

I know this might get controversial but fixing officiating via replay is not the answer. Most of the bad reffing last season was due to miss calls. Officials who normally would have gotten those calls didn't. The Refs were way out of sorts last season. Something is happening in the officiating department that we don't know about.

Look at how many refs left for TV deals. Gene Steratore (coming off Super Bowl 52 joined CBS to replace Mike Carey.), Terry McAulay (joined NBC), John Parry (joined ESPN coming off Super Bowl 53) and if this counts Jeff Triplette (who joined ESPN?) he was never seen in the broadcast.

That is a lot of referees who decided working for TV Networks was better than being on the field. That's a problem. The NFL had to replace all of them with greenhorns. The bad reffing last year was a result of poor training of officials and multiple veteran officials calling it quits. Fixing officiating starts at the top. Training officials better. Replay is not the answer.

1. FOX cutting referee announcements after replay

Yeah. This pissed me so off. FOX decided to avoid competition with CBS and NBC with their rules analyst by not showing Mike Pereira or Dean Blandino and cutting replays and referee announcements to just go to the next snap but the announcer having very little time to explain the verdict.

This was lazy by FOX. It was a piss poor attempt to avoid competition. The Announcers almost always said that either Mike Pereira or Dean Blandino agreed with the call not saying they didn't. How do we know that the announcers aren't just saying it?

The other networks CBS, ESPN, and NBC still showed the referee making the announcement even if they didn't show his face. FOX nope just having commercials till the next snap. It's frustrating even more as an Eagles fan because the NFC's network is FOX. It makes the replay feel worthless.

Hell with that controversial missed call in the NFC Champ game. If the officials could watch it on replay then it is most likely that FOX just skips to the next snap. That's what they did all season. So we don't get a send-off to the replay.