I really did! I really thought that making physical contact with the official in such a manner to fight the ref was a forfeiture offense, but we seem to be getting a lot of that in today's football.
Yesterday's perpetrator: Virginia Tech's Dadi Nicholas, who bumped the outstretched arm of Ron Cherry while he was announcing a penalty against Nicholas, and that drew Nicholas 15 more yards.
It's this kind of intimidation that just feeds upon officials skewing calls. For even those situations some are skeptical of actual game-rigging, I do get told of situations that the referees, instead, are making calls to simply get out of there alive.
I can see that, but the amount of players getting abusive with the officiating has definitely taken an apparent upturn this year.
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