Most messed up call in football?

Which penalty do refs screw up the most?

  • Offensive Pass Interference

    Votes: 3 2.1%

  • Targeting

    Votes: 23 16.1%

  • Roughing the Passer

    Votes: 37 25.9%

  • Defensive Pass Interference

    Votes: 22 15.4%

  • Offensive Holding

    Votes: 46 32.2%

  • Defensive Holding

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Illegal Formation

    Votes: 1 0.7%

  • Unnecessary Roughness / Late Hit

    Votes: 5 3.5%

  • Chop Block

    Votes: 5 3.5%
  • Total voters
    143
andrew said:
This drives me nuts too. The answer is pretty simple -- call the offensive player for using his head as a weapon!

Defenders tackle far more safely in general now because they know that lowering their head will get them fifteen yards more often than not. There's no reason the same can't/shouldn't happen for runners.
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If the ball carrier lowers his head, he should get a targeting and be removed from the game
 
justafan said:
Unintentional targeting can be just as harmful as intentional. The goal is to reduce harmful hits to the head as much as possible. "Unintentional" targeting can be reduced by players taking greater care with form, how they tackle. I think the targeting rule is good as is.
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I’m not arguing that unintentional targeting can’t be harmful. I’m arguing that ejecting that player is excessive for a hit that wasn’t malicious.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
There should be no roughing the passer unless the QB has on a short skirt.

Targeting is a train wreck and should not be called on the field. Let the replay ref call it with concurrence of the referee on review. Make the offender go to the penalty box for 5 minutes then return to the field.
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Ice hockey might be the most stupid sport with its penalty box and staged fighting rules. On top of that when watching on TV the puck flies so fast you can’t tell if there is a score until the announcer screams to tell you.
 
ramblinwise1 said:
Should unintentional targeting even be targeting?
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Depends on what your goal is.

If your goal is mainly to penalize defenders for intentionally trying to hurt other players, then no.

If your goal is to try to get defenders to fundamentally play in a safer way, then yes, because that will incentivize players to tackle in a way that minimizes the chances of a dangerous hit to the head, intentional or not.
 
I didn't see an option for all of the above??? But I have been watching the replay of the Duke game and we were screwed by a non-call on the PI on Blackburn right before halftime. Blackburn should have still made the catch but was being held. Forced us to punt.
 
The targeting rule as it’s enforced absolutely sucks. Football is a dynamic sport. A defender can be in perfect position for the perfect tackle until the ball carrier is tripped/slips/etc. causing his head and neck area to be hit by the first defender. No intent and no way to stop it.

Targeting and roughing the passer are both judgement calls and a lot of officials make very poor judgements. Officiating often shows bias and they are easy calls for officials choosing to affect the course of a ball game.

Blatant targeting (a judgement call, see the dwags against Florida take out Kyle Pitts in 2020) deserves an ejection and at least a game out.
 
justafan said:
Seems impossible for one or two people to watch every lineman for holding, on top of their other responsibilities. So maybe calling holding is a best effort sort of thing and fans have an impossible standard. Police can't pull over every speeder, right.
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The maddening thing to me about offensive holding is when the game gets in a situation where one team is up by a couple of TDs late in the game and everyone in the stadium knows the offense is going to be throwing the ball every down, there seems to be a bias to call/not to call holding. Whether the bias is to help one team, screw one team, beat or not the spread, preserve a blowout to help conference ratings, or keep the game close & more interesting surely isn't ascertainable or consistent, but for every game you can bitch that they never call holding in those situations there's another game where you can bitch that they were calling holding on almost every series.
 
“Giving Him The Business” was left off of the list. A lot of GHTB gets overlooked IMO.

 
All of football is slanted to favor offense to the point that offensive holding is barely enforced.
 
GT76 said:
The targeting rule as it’s enforced absolutely sucks. Football is a dynamic sport. A defender can be in perfect position for the perfect tackle until the ball carrier is tripped/slips/etc. causing his head and neck area to be hit by the first defender. No intent and no way to stop it.

Targeting and roughing the passer are both judgement calls and a lot of officials make very poor judgements. Officiating often shows bias and they are easy calls for officials choosing to affect the course of a ball game.

Blatant targeting (a judgement call, see the dwags against Florida take out Kyle Pitts in 2020) deserves an ejection and at least a game out.
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That one was so dang flagrant. The defender is up in the air so jumping to hit high is completely unnecessary.
 
My favorite penalty is pass interference on under thrown balls. A good QB can get this called whenever they need to. Call a post and slightly under throw the ball. The defender is trying so hard to keep up with the receiver they rarely turn their head and will run through the receiver when he slows down for the catch.
 
Nehru Jacket said:
Ice hockey might be the most stupid sport with its penalty box and staged fighting rules. On top of that when watching on TV the puck flies so fast you can’t tell if there is a score until the announcer screams to tell you.
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Papi, put down the bourbon and Mamaw’s phone!
 
QuadF said:
That one was so dang flagrant. The defender is up in the air so jumping to hit high is completely unnecessary.
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i meant to say receiver, but i think the intent was understood
 
The most messed up call in football is the one that gives you 5 downs, a chance to claim share of a national championship, and the gall to try to continue to recognize it wasn't a mistake decades later.
 
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