Poor officiating is an easy fallback excuse for any frustrated sports fans who can’t fathom how his team lost a close game (yes, we are looking at you, Texas Longhorns fans). To be sure, there are poorly officiated games and there are bad individual officials. Every team at some point or another gets hosed. It’s an unfortunate reality of the game. In most cases, there is probably no other explanation than simple human error. Conspiracy theorists need not apply.
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However, there are rare games where the officiating is so bad that no excuse can be made.