Sports Journalists Are Hurting the Sports

Have you ever wondered what the plethora of sports shows and newspaper writers could do to sports? I thought about it the other day after the fiasco of the Super Bowl. I don't think anyone would have noticed the bad officiating if it wasn't for the announcers. They made a few calls seem as if they had no grounds. I admit there was one bad call. But all the hoopla about the refs winning the game was false. I'd like to say my philosophy on winning big games is making the most big plays. In a championship football game, if you let a team have two touchdowns of 49+ yards...You lose. That's why the Seahawks lost. They gave up huge plays. You can shut a team out except for 3 plays and you can still lose.

Another thing is the so call experts are dogging refs when they are watching the action at full speed. Some of the calls they have to make are blurs to the normal eye. But ex-players that have the luxury of slow motion are making it seem like its a horrendous thing to make a mistake. Don't QB's make the wrong reads all of the time, and wide receivers miss easy passes from time to time, running backs fumble, defensive player bite on play action and linemen miss key blocks. If a ref makes a bad call, its not the end of the world. Good teams can overcome bad calls. Teams on the brink of being good but are mediocre and somehow find themselves in the Superbowl can't win close games. During the season they were a one trick pony, in the superbowl that pony didn't do any tricks.