hey FF, got to say I always enjoy your comments. I understand the need for increased safety when Goodell took over as commish but all the stupid as you put it “court room” BS dumb calls has got to go. Whatever happened to defense in professional sports? you can’t touch anyone on the perimeter now in the NBA, you can’t touch a WR, can’t have a bone crushing hit in the NFL, it’s ridiculous.

Well, they blew it all right. In the meantime, we are fed another 10 minutes of commercials for gas-guzzling monster trucks that nobody wants. Ultimately, the league is at fault for turning pro football into a hyper-legalized Supreme Court lawsuit nit-pick over everything. This kind of pseudo-legal-babble over every play never happened in Joe Perry or John David Crow’s day.

Though I’m a lifelong ’9ers Faithful since Kezar days, I have to admit I’m nowhere near as frustrated when I watch “the beautiful game” i.e. world football a.k.a. soccer. There, the game flows so much more, no commercials except at halftime, no instant replay, no challenge, no flags, and what the ref says goes (they also have a rating system for who gets to call a World Cup match.)

Btw, last Sunday, whether we’re Raiders fans or not, there were at least 3 plays, including a challenge beneficial to the Raiders which was “disallowed” due to “equipment malfunction”, which would have swung the score (though not the outcome) by 13 points the other way. Refs have way too much pressure to interfere, and the NFL is at fault for perverting a once beautiful game into a start-stop weasel-willed shouting match between ape-chimps in a zoo-cage.

Like Madden says: “You gotta let ‘em play.”

GO NINERS !!!

I like your attitude, hope your right GO 9ERS