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Let’s Hold NFL Refs Accountable

There’s no way around it: we’re pretty divided right now as a country. That said, no matter what your opinions are on issues that have absolutely zero business being discussed on a sports blog, I’d like to think that there are a few universal truths that we can all agree on and fully get behind:

  • If your team lost, more often than not it’s those damn refs who are to blame

Blaming the refs for a loss is a tradition as old as time itself. Back when the first cavemen played the first game of Caveball and the Neanderthals eked out a last second win over the Rock Biters, there was a whole faction of Biter fans who could only imagine how many wooly mammoth steaks the Neanderthals slipped the refs to get the game called in their favor.