#dezcaughtit

Never notice how the referees always want your team to lose?  It's with amazing consistency and oddly enough, it seems to go to refs in every sport.  It's one of the reasons I stay away from sports bars.  That and there's no way I can keep eating and drinking four hours in order to get a good table, then keep the table.  Seriously, how long can you sit at a bar with water in front of you?  It's time we add "Sports Starbucks."  They have no problem letting you sit at a table nursing a coffee for 3 hours, why not add sports?  Sure, they wouldn't make any money, seriously, the overpriced coffee jokes are bs.  A medium black coffee is normally $2.25 (unless you're at an airport), which is just a shade more than you pay at a truck stop.  The coffee's better and the place doesn't smell like, well, a truck stop.

Anyway, the point was, it's next to impossible to watch a game with other people, even if they're rooting for the same team.  Every call is against them.  If a call is for them, it's a makeup for something that the refs screwed up earlier.  Watch a replay with a fan of each team.  Each fan will see what they're looking for.  

Twitter is often fun to follow during a game.  There are some really funny things being live tweeted, did I get the terminology right?  The hazardous part of this is it's like watching a game with other people.  Sure you don't hear them.  You only get their opinions by reading but damn, it's hard to look away.  

What spurred these thoughts was game one of the NBA Finals.  All game all of my Cleveland friends were complaining about the refs.  If I was following more San Francisco and Oakland friends, my timeline would probably be filled with opposite tweets.  My girlfriend was convinced Draymond Green hit Lebron in the face on purpose.  She was live, not live tweeting, which I couldn't click out.  She has no idea of Draymond Green's past, which really would've cranked up the revolutions on her head spinning.  While it was rough, things like that happen all the time.  As a semi Cavaliers fan, it really didn't look intentional, but try explaining that to an angry Clevelander.

The worst was the change of charge call that really effected the end of the game.  Simplified explanation (I don't feel like copying and pasting the rule book), the charge was not reviewable, yet the play was reviewed.  Cavs fans were going nuts and rightfully so.  The call was changed to a blocking foul, so Cavs fans were even more angry  That said, a blocking call was the right call.  So it came down to arguing for a wrong call to be upheld so you could probably win based on a wrong call (well, and the other 47 plus minutes of play in the game).  I get it and if I was hardcore, I'd probably be mad too, but they did get the call right, so how mad can you be?  

The point is, my head's starting to hurt going over this and yes, I'm still mad about the Dez catch being ruled no catch in Green Bay (but I have good reasons...it was not irrefutable evidence to be overturned and the rule said to make a "football move" which he did, then they rationalized it was "not enough of a football move."  I'm still angry).  

#DEZCAUGHTIT 

Finally! After years of injustice, the NFL Competition Committee confirmed that Dez Bryant did, in fact, catch the infamous pass at Lambeau Field in 2014. 

Recap: The Dallas Cowboys were Playing the Green Bay Packers in the playoffs. The Cowboys were down with only a little time left on the clock, so Tony Romo aired one out deep to Dez Bryant. Dez made an amazing catch only yards away from the end zone; however, the pass was later ruled incomplete. This call was extremely controversial and ended up costing the Cowboys the game and a chance to play for the NFC Championship.