What are your most annoying Ref calls i.e. "unwritten rules" during a game?

[adam.vol]

The worst unwritten rule is that officials don’t have to call it correctly. They don’t have to call anything at all or they can penalize what never happened.. It’s not against the rules.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

I just wish refs would use common sense when throwing flags for roughing the punter. I get it if a punter gets absolutely demolished. But throwing flags for ticky tack stuff, especially when the rusher is clearly doing all he can to pull up, but momentum wont let him, is asinine. Its football! Its a contact sport!

 

[ZZ13]

Ball carrier stiff arming to the face mask, often twisting the tacklers head. It's never called. Facemask is a hazard to be protected via penalty, well except if you are running with the ball, then it's not dangerous.

 

[I4Vols]

My "What are your most annoying Ref calls" are the ones a ref took from Las Vegas.

 

[GAVol]

The ref analyst said it was "mutual combat" so they couldn't call PI either way.

Which was ridiculous analysis IMO. DB was literally hanging onto the WRs arm for 5 yards.

 

[Mccage]

Mine is a no call…O lineman assisting the runner. Miami had a guard pulling behind the RB on most short yardage plays assisting the RB. They never call it. It’s common now and either do away with the penalty or start calling it.
It’s football not rugby.

 

[sigmundoooz]

The rule for spiking the football either needs to be removed or called. There are least 3 spikes after scores in pretty much every college football game that are not called. By the way, the greatest spike, no call ever was several years ago by Colorado State Quarterback Bradlee Van Pelt. He ran the ball into the endzone, turned around and spiked the ball off a defender's head. No call, and that was back when they actually did usually call it. Check it out on youtube, FANTASTIC.

 

[superdave1984]

Not so much an unwritten rule but consistency, which is worse in basketball but happens in football too. If something is a hold, PI, late hit, whatever, call it consistently and if it's a penalty in the 2nd quarter then it's a penalty on the last play of the game.

Can you imagine if today's basketball players had to play by 80's rules where you couldn't palm the ball, traveling was called if the second foot got off the ground, etc.?

 

[LordBolton]

When the ref makes a call based on his brother's bet cause he picked the under.

 

[ftsandersvol]

Allowing hand fighting by both WRs and DBs is the worst for me. It makes the PI calls inconsistent as hell.

I can remember when it was automatically PI if a DB even touched a WR after the first 5 yards from the line of scrimmage. Within the first 5 yards the DB could basically do whatever they wanted to, except hold, to the WR as long as the ball wasn’t in the air to the said WR.

Back in those days I never really understood why DBs just didn’t get up a head of steam and knock the sh*t out of the WRs as they came off the line. A good forearm to the ribs or preferably the throat (least protected area) would quickly take the wind out of their sails. Do that enough times early in a game and you would break the will of the WR. Once that happens you then own that player.

 

[Rickyvol77]

Mine is a no call…O lineman assisting the runner. Miami had a guard pulling behind the RB on most short yardage plays assisting the RB. They never call it. It’s common now and either do away with the penalty or start calling it.
It’s football not rugby.

I think they took that rule out of the book

 

[Rickyvol77]

Can you imagine if today's basketball players had to play by 80's rules where you couldn't palm the ball, traveling was called if the second foot got off the ground, etc.?

NBA players today wouldn't survive in 1980s NBA

 

[UTblood4life]

Stripping Matt Corral, running it into the end zone for a td, have it called back because some zebra is Schizophrenic.

 

[KnoxRealtorVOL]

10 yards is way too harsh for holding. That’s a 5 yard penalty.

Holding should not be changing down and distance from 3rd and 1 to 3rd and 11, that’s absurd.

 

[Brave Volunteer]

10 yards is way too harsh for holding. That’s a 5 yard penalty.

Holding should not be changing down and distance from 3rd and 1 to 3rd and 11, that’s absurd.

Especially when they could call it on every play practically.

 

[sami]

Yeah… I don’t mind letting stuff go when guys are massed together, but that was clearly a throw to a specific WR who was getting mugged.

And like a good little puppet Herbstreit made a point of saying that both were engaging in the holding. But Herbstreit also was convinced it was targeting as did the fool "official" they have in the booth, and when the officials correctly (and quickly) ruled no targeting, they scrambled to agree. Comical.

 

[sami]

10 yards is way too harsh for holding. That’s a 5 yard penalty.

Holding should not be changing down and distance from 3rd and 1 to 3rd and 11, that’s absurd.

Worse yet is the automatic 1st down on defensive holding. How many times do we see a ticky-tack d-holding call on 3rd and forever result in an automatic 1st down?

The rules too often are far more penal than they really should be, especially given the inconsistency in the officiating on so many "rules".

I know this horse left the barn decades ago, but officials either deciding or playing a huge role in deciding outcomes of games should never have been allowed to reach the point it has. But then, how else would the powers that be have the ability to control outcomes?

 

[Wireless1]

Yeah… I don’t mind letting stuff go when guys are massed together, but that was clearly a throw to a specific WR who was getting mugged.

And it was from the 25 not a true Hail Mary

 

[ftsandersvol]

Worse yet is the automatic 1st down on defensive holding. How many times do we see a ticky-tack d-holding call on 3rd and forever result in an automatic 1st down?

The rules too often are far more penal than they really should be, especially given the inconsistency in the officiating on so many "rules".

I know this horse left the barn decades ago, but officials either deciding or playing a huge role in deciding outcomes of games should never have been allowed to reach the point it has. But then, how else would the powers that be have the ability to control outcomes?

Never underestimate how much influence Vegas has on the outcome of the games.

 

[Sarms58]

Mine is a no call…O lineman assisting the runner. Miami had a guard pulling behind the RB on most short yardage plays assisting the RB. They never call it. It’s common now and either do away with the penalty or start calling it.
It’s football not rugby.

Ironically, I believe it was called against us…you can push the runner but you can’t pull - yet you see players pulling the runner in many games

 

[MurphyVol]

Pretty much every hit after the ball is released is roughing the passer. That's not the rule

 

[adam.vol]

Never underestimate how much influence Vegas has on the outcome of the games.

There are only two entities who can decide the game. The players and the referees.

In most sports:
If a player is suspected of cheating, they attack him unmercifully until the end of time.

If a referee is suspected of cheating, it gets very quiet and important people like Herbstreit and league commissioners shame you for not being lenient on them.

That tells me who is essential towards the casino profits.

In the NFL (and WWE) “sports entertainment”:
Everyone is in on the fix. Players and referees.

Most likely ever since Roger Goodell started making his $700,000,000 to publicly punish players and coaches for talking too much.

 

[sigmundoooz]

I think they took that rule out of the book

You can assist by pushing but not by pulling.

 

[sami]

Never underestimate how much influence Vegas has on the outcome of the games.

Kind of what I was referring to with my last comment in the post:

"But then, how else would the powers that be have the ability to control outcomes?"

 

[VOLINVONORE]

Not so much an unwritten rule but consistency, which is worse in basketball but happens in football too. If something is a hold, PI, late hit, whatever, call it consistently and if it's a penalty in the 2nd quarter then it's a penalty on the last play of the game.

Agree.