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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Pokerbrat2000" data-source="post: 1046001" data-attributes="member: 7261">I agree, but would add this.  Being a referee isn't an easy job.  Despite what everyone thinks, as they watch it from home or in the stadium, the refs DON'T see everything or every angle individually or sometimes collectively.  I guess now that I typed that, I would say its more like what we see when sitting in the stadium watching the game.  We see one angle, once.  I can't tell you how many games I have been to a game and said "Wait...WTF just happened, I didn't see THAT".  Then when I sit down and watch the game on TV later, I see it.  I see it from every angle, frame by frame by frame.I doubt many fans want to see every play scrutinized frame by frame.  But there blatantly obvious missed calls, ones that the current replay system, even if challenged by a coach, don't allow to be fixed, even though they easily could be.  I think that is all fans, at least this one, wants.  Human error is fine, but stupidity isn't.  I don't think any of the refs miss these calls intentionally, I think the NFL is just too stubborn to admit it matters. Hell, they might even like the controversary, it gets people talking about the NFL and watching those controversial plays over and over.</blockquote>

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