What the heck is happening to the refing in the NFL? I admit I am looking at this through a Giants fan's subjective eye, but there were several calls that were ridiculous.
The holding call that they made against Boss nullifying a good Giants run was ridiculous. It was an obvious flop by the defender, but it should have been easy to see that there was no hold.
The lack of holding calls by Steeler DBs against Giants WRs was also ridiculous. Plaxico was open for a TD and was blatantly held. It's a lot easier to play an aggressive, challenging defense giving the WR no cushion if when you get beat, you can hold.
The late hit call against Kenny Phillips was just stupid.
On the 3o yd TD run by Moore in first half, there was a hold by the Steeler TE Heath Miller against Tuck right at the point of attack. You couldn't see the hold on the original TV angle, but on the replay it was as clear as could be. In fact, it was a good tackle by TE Miller.
On the 4th and 1 run by Jacobs, I think he made it over the goal line, but I can't blame the refs much for that, because it was hard to see the ball position. The overhead camera seemed to show he was in. Like I said - can't complain on that one because it was a close call.
Interesting digression - the replay challenge system was established to correct blatant errors by officials, especially on scoring plays. The original bad call was Vinny Testaverde scoring a phantom TD on a play in which he never actually crossed the goal line and this was apparent from a camera angle not available to the refs on the field. Consider the 3rd down play originally called a TD that was reversed on Jacobs. It was only in slow motion, almost frame-by-frame analysis that you can see that the ball was on the one inch line when his elbow hit the ground. On my DVR, I advanced it frame by frame and it was exactly 3 frames between the time his elbow hit and the ball crossed the goal line. For those of you who are not tech-geeks like me, the rate that frames are broadcast for display on TV is 20 frames-per-second. This means that the time delay was 3/20 of a second. Hardly what you would call blatant, although it was certainly the correct call.
Parenthetically, after that reversal the ball was placed on the 1/2 yard line and I'm not clear why it was not placed on the 1 inch line.
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