Referees - Booooooooo!

Sitting and watching the SA/OKC game and thinking about how lousy the refs are in the NBA. This made then think about the officials in the other main sports: NHL, MLB,NFL and of course the EPL.. just joking. Who gives a fiddlers fuck about soccer, let alone soccer refs? Let's start with the NHL. I think the refs in the NHL are OK. They don't suck and they are not great. They use to really, really suck in the playoffs, but I think they have gotten better. There are more penalties called in playoff games, even in the late going and overtime. NFL: The game of football is unbelieveably hard to officiate, I think. Where do you begin when it comes to penalties? There are probably 10-20 penalties on each and every play, so when do you call one? I think they take a bit of a 'I haven't called one in awhile, so I will' or a 'I just called one, so I won't ' approach. I don't the refs in football do a very good job, but it's an impossible task, so I'm not really negative towards them. I think they are just happy at the end of the game that they survived and hopefully so do the players. That's all you can hope for in football. MLB: I think the baseball umps are the best. They get most of the calls correct, not saying that they don't fuck up at times, but generally they get it right. I watched a game the other night in which, after watching four or five different camera shots of the play, it did not show undeniable proof one way or another what the call was. How can you say the ump is incorrect in making the call he did. That's what he thought it was, and he had to make a quick decision. Most bang-bang plays in baseball are like that. They don't have the benefit of instant replay. It's close and they decide. Many, many time the instant replays prove the umpire correct and if they are wrong, again; bang/bang, they make a call. And if it's so close that even instant replay is not conclusive, then the ump made the right call. Now what makes the MLB umpires unbearable is their contentiousness. They are fucking assholes. They cause more problems than any other official. They turn a fleck of sand into a dessert storm. They don't know when to shut the fuck up and just umpire. They antagonize players/coaches, goading them on. If they just shut the fuck up, things would be great, but no, they have to have the last word. Then they get to do what they love to do: toss someone out. Ohhhh, look at me. I can kick someone out of the game. I'm important. Fucking jerks. I left the worst for the last. NBA refs are the worst. The fucking worst by the distance from here to Saturn. They are brutal. They get nothing right. They don't call the rules of the game. They repeatedly do make-up calls to correct their fuck ups from the last play. They decide what are rules and what are not rules. Are traveling and carrying the ball still rules, because players today can commit these infractions endlessly with being called. What exactly is a foul? Is it the same when LBJ gets hit as when, the backup center for OKC gets hit? No fucking way. Superstars are reffed different than stars. Stars are reffed different than role players. Forget about the scrubs on the bench, they don't have a fucking chance with officals. A foul in the first quarter should be a foul in the fourth quarter. Is it? Ha, ha. No fucking way. NBA officials look at the score, the player, the situation before they make a call. That's a fucking joke. No one knows when a foul is going to be called, except of course the superstar, who knows that he will get every call because of who he is. Again... a fucking joke. NBA refs run a close second to the MLB umps for goading players/coaches on and giving them technical fouls. I have always said that a fucking monkey can give a player/coach a technical. That takes no reffing skill at all. All you have to be able to do is to signal the letter T with your hands, not exactly a tremendous accomplishment. I am surprised that an NBA player hasn't killed an official. Squash them like a bug. I have said this before but who hasn't thought about doing that to an official? Like the old Rosanne Barr joke when she was asked about what she thought about the Salt Lake City lady who stabbed her husband twenty times. Rosanne said "I admire her restraint." Basketball refs should thank their lucky stars that one of the thyroidial (made up word!) giants that they walk with don't strangulate them just for fun. Maybe they should go back to reffing the rules correctly, as they are written in the rule book. Oh wait, that would infer that they can read. STUPID SOCCER FACT OF THE DAY: What is the fucking deal with soccer teams kicking the ball back to their own goalie? They do this many, many times during each game. Have you ever seen that happen in hockey? Ohh, here's a great idea... we have the puck at the other team's blueline, but let's pass it back to Patrick Roy and let him pass to someone to start the attack again. Fucking ridiculous. And they wonder why there is no scoring in soccer. Maybe it's because most teams get more shots on their own goal than on the opponents net. That would limit the scoring opportunities, wouldn't it??? What a fucking lame-ass game!