the rolltide, settle down. First of all, you don't know if anyone else on this board could or has or does referee games. To make that broad of an assumption is taking way too many liberties.
Secondly, you say this:
"But to think that refs chose a team or they favor a team is the stupidest thing ever! You try to ref!!!"
I can sense that you are passionate about your craft and seem very animated about others attacking what you consider to be near and dear to you. But, the real facts are that referees certainly can be crooked and they certainly can affect the outcome of a game.
Are you crooked? Of course not, I would never even think that. But, for you to be naive enough to honestly believe that ref. cheating doesn't and hasn't and isn't currently occurring is sort of naive.
No, it is really naive. Here is just one example:
http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/columns/story?id=3436503
Are referees angelic beings that have floated down from heaven and have integrity stamped so deep into their soul that they can never even think of doing anything wrong? Of course they aren't. But you seem to think it is just really out of the realm of possibility for a ref. to be a crook. Well, guess what, it isn't.
Another example:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rEFgxehqIcM
I fully understand the entreaties from all of our fans that if we had only played better that the ref's calls would have been a non-factor. But, that just isn't true.
Imagine a referee that intentionally made up bogus calls and maliciously called them on a team on play after play, down after down, quarter after quarter.
What would a team do then? How could a team reasonably be expected to win a game against that kind of opposition?
So, sure, ref's certainly can affect the outcomes of games. Teams should not have to overcome the intentional dishonesty of ref's or their incompetence.
