Vendetta against the Bears

[Ares]

The ref behavior should be the canary in the coal mine.

At some point it is going to come out that every major Sports league in the United States sold their souls to the betting game.

They didn't try to allow betting on fair competition.

They purposefully began rigging outcomes, thru rule changes, officiating interference, and I'd argue the Owners themselves are building teams designed for narratives rather than to win games.

This isn't tinfoil hat nonsense, there are proven cases (see the cheating series on Netflix) where refs and players collaborate to fix betting outcomes.

The betting system got bigger, the cheating problem grew, and the money is flowing in so they have no reason to stop.

Pay the Owners, Pay the Refs, Pay the Players, Pay Everybody and they'll be happy to keep playing along.

I know I sure as fuck would take lifetime wealth opportunities if all I had to do was pretend nothing was amiss.

But somehow the people who make millions off professional sports are above all that.

Sure, okay.

 

[TheWinman]

Bears are first team in NFL history to have scored at least 29 points in three straight games and not win any of them.

Yes, refs don't help. But the defense gives up everything on 3rd down.

WHen your defense has an interception that would have sealed a game and the ref blows a call so bad. Give the D a litte credit

 

[rextc]

The final sack on 4th down. Brady/Rodgers gets the roughing the passer call .

 

[SD Bears Fan]

First, no crying- I’m laughing that the Lions think this win is beneficial for them. Neither team is going anywhere. If we can get near the QB territory we can get a goldmine in the draft.

But anyway, it is pretty obvious the league has some sort of vendetta against the Bears, and I’m not sure why. Last week, Pittsburgh game from last year, whatever this was, and so on.

What is 115-year old Virginia doing to piss off the league?

It scares me that we have adults this god damn dumb in the world. Yeah, smart move by the NFL to take the time to have a vendetta against any team let alone one of the oldest and most recognized franchises.

 

[SD Bears Fan]

The NFL absolutely loves fans like you. Stupid sheep that never question anything.

Go ahead and question and follow whatever conspiracy theory you want. They don't care about your crazy opinion. You are just a speck of dust to the NFL machine.

 

[SD Bears Fan]

The final sack on 4th down. Brady/Rodgers gets the roughing the passer call .

Are you an adult and really believe that? I feel sorry for you if you do.

 

[SD Bears Fan]

Maybe vendetta isn’t the word, but there seems to be some sort of agenda. I could name you at least 15 horrible calls from the past two years at the top of my head. I know they aren’t good one bit, but you can’t have a league that is married to gambling be consistently blowing calls against one team and then just apologizing days later.

You can call me weak or soft all you want, but if that interception stands the game is over. For hell’s sake, the guy hurt his leg off the jump. It was pretty obvious even in real time. I don’t know how someone standing five feet away can’t see that.

Every team has a list of bad calls against them. You are a moron.

Have you ever been an official at any level of any sport? I have and am. It's not as easy as you think. Especially with meathead dumbasses like you sitting at home watching every call and acting like somebody is out to get you or your team when things don't go your way. If you think you can do better and want to work against the "vendetta" become a football official and work your way up.

Based on your intelligence I doubt you would get past the pee wee level of officiating.

 

[SD Bears Fan]

I did, but I’m confused why that even matters in the first place in this discussion? You keep deflecting to other things. I’m fully aware the team stinks, but they clearly have been on the wrong side of some egregious, game-changing calls the last few years. I’m sure you’ll tell me again how football isn’t for the soft and that this isn’t figure skating. You must have suffered too many concussions playing said football.

Why does that matter? Let's see. You say you played football and you think the WHOLE NFL has something against the Bears and goes out of their way to make sure they lose? Really? That would benefit the NFL how?

What did you say when you lost back in the day? The pee wee association had something against you and your team?

I hope to god you don't have kids and aren't raising more dumbasses that will have your point of view.

 

[SD Bears Fan]

They aren’t good, fully aware of that- but again, if that interception stands, the game is essentially over. Let’s see how many weeks in a row the NFL has to apologize for egregious errors.

And let’s be honest, that entire drive was three straight penalties on at least two atrocious calls.

You people are funny like I don’t know the team is terrible- but it doesn’t excuse game-changing calls that consistently go against them.

What's the excuse for the Texans, Raiders, Browns, Panthers, etc. etc. The league is out to get them too? I'm sure some wacko fan like you from each team has a list of calls that have gone against them. Or do they have one thing in common with the Bears................lack of talent? For years too.

 

[Pretzel Logic]

Two weeks in a row we've seen incompetence from officials.

Yesterday there are countless examples of plays being called against one team but not the other.

Vendetta, no.

Jobbed on national TV - yeah, pretty much.

 

[Kulps19]

Boy you seem awfully triggered here dude. I have three advanced degrees and if you want to look up my credentials I can give you the information to do so, plus any references you need. So you are an official- who cares? Professional refs should be held to a standard and they are not. Your credentials working pee-wee football or other sports mean little to me whatsoever. I’m not talking about juvenile officiating here, I’m talking about grown-ass men.

I did say maybe vendetta isn’t the correct word. However, I think there’s something definitely going on in terms of what is happening. Teams just don’t get jobbed on the officiating as much as the Bears do regularly. I’ll check back in two days when the NFL issues the standard apology.

But go ahead, tell me about your great officiating career that has no matter on what I am talking about…

You want to talk about intelligence, yeesh, your debate skills are juvenile at best.

 

[Kulps19]

Two weeks in a row we've seen incompetence from officials.

Yesterday there are countless examples of plays being called against one team but not the other.

Vendetta, no.

Jobbed on national TV - yeah, pretty much.

I’m going to say again maybe vendetta isn’t the right word, but it seems very problematic that for the last couple of years, all the game-changing calls that really impacted a close game in the end have went against the Bears.

 

[Pretzel Logic]

I’m going to say again maybe vendetta isn’t the right word, but it seems very problematic that for the last couple of years, all the game-changing calls that really impacted a close game in the end have went against the Bears.

I'm cool with people thinking this.

I'm sure if you went back and focused only on the Bears you could document it.

Horse, gate, bolted comes to mind though.

 

[SD Bears Fan]

Boy you seem awfully triggered here dude. I have three advanced degrees and if you want to look up my credentials I can give you the information to do so, plus any references you need. So you are an official- who cares? Professional refs should be held to a standard and they are not. Your credentials working pee-wee football or other sports mean little to me whatsoever. I’m not talking about juvenile officiating here, I’m talking about grown-ass men.

I did say maybe vendetta isn’t the correct word. However, I think there’s something definitely going on in terms of what is happening. Teams just don’t get jobbed on the officiating as much as the Bears do regularly. I’ll check back in two days when the NFL issues the standard apology.

But go ahead, tell me about your great officiating career that has no matter on what I am talking about…

You want to talk about intelligence, yeesh, your debate skills are juvenile at best.

Three advanced degrees.........i'm so impressed. So you studied for a very long time. Wow.

I'm not triggered at all. I just can't believe that somebody that is somewhat educated and thinks they are smart because they have three degrees honestly thinks the NFL has it out for any team let alone the bears.

You want to rip apart the refs while claiming it's a fix against the Bears? I suggest you get involved and become an official. I'm sure you are the douche bag yelling at pee wee games.

It just proves that people that spend a lot of time in school can still be an idiot.

 

[CreepyBasementGuy]

We been watching football for years now. We all know there's like atleast 4-5 awful calls each game, unfortunately they gone against us recently. It's not just the Bears who get screwed by it, all teams do.

As someone who watches a lot of different sports, this sport has the worst officiating of all sports by far. It's the worst part of football. They get more review assistance then anyone and still screw it up all the time.

 

[Nelly]

The final sack on 4th down. Brady/Rodgers gets the roughing the passer call .

When Cam Newton was doing his thing, this was an issue. Because he was big and strong and could run, he didn't get roughing calls. They basically treated him like he was a running back rather than a QB. I think that's what you're seeing there, cause yea, if that was Brady, it would have been roughing even before he was thrown to the ground.

 

[Kulps19]

Three advanced degrees.........i'm so impressed. So you studied for a very long time. Wow.

I'm not triggered at all. I just can't believe that somebody that is somewhat educated and thinks they are smart because they have three degrees honestly thinks the NFL has it out for any team let alone the bears.

You want to rip apart the refs while claiming it's a fix against the Bears? I suggest you get involved and become an official. I'm sure you are the douche bag yelling at pee wee games.

It just proves that people that spend a lot of time in school can still be an idiot.

Incorrect. I would never yell at any official below the college level. I still don’t know how criticizing the officials in a multi-billion dollar professional sport earns the retort that I need to be an official, but ok then. Also, I still don’t care that you are a ref and it means nothing to the discussion.

I’ll just commit a hasty generalization like you did and assume you are an extreme ex-jock who is angry at the world that you never were able to make it big for yourself. So instead, you call other people stupid and rage about education while working a lower-level job that burns you out.

 

[Kulps19]

We been watching football for years now. We all know there's like atleast 4-5 awful calls each game, unfortunately they gone against us recently. It's not just the Bears who get screwed by it, all teams do.

As someone who watches a lot of different sports, this sport has the worst officiating of all sports by far. It's the worst part of football. They get more review assistance then anyone and still screw it up all the time.

Agreed. They are the worst by far. It isn’t even close. WWE officials may be more competent.

 

[CreepyBasementGuy]

I'll just add one more thing and say, the Cowboys are complaining they were robbed by some penalties with their coach blaming the refs this week. Not too mention, the Bills benefited from a bad call with the catch on the sideline and the refs chose not to review the play with 2 minutes remaining. (They also missed 12 men on the field on crucial goal line play on the Bills in OT.) Could have cost the Vikings. This shit happens all the time to all teams. Like I said in my post above, worst refs in all sports. Edit- Corrected an error

 

[SD Bears Fan]

We been watching football for years now. We all know there's like atleast 4-5 awful calls each game, unfortunately they gone against us recently. It's not just the Bears who get screwed by it, all teams do.

As someone who watches a lot of different sports, this sport has the worst officiating of all sports by far. It's the worst part of football. They get more review assistance then anyone and still screw it up all the time.

Well said.

On the other hand, didn't you know it's a vendetta and the league is out to get the Bears?