Bad Refs

There has been a rash of bad officiating in American sports of late. Ok, two really really really bad calls.

The first came a week ago in the Colts-Steelers game. Troy Polamalu of Pittsburgh picked Peyton Manning's pass. He fell to the ground. He rolled over. He played banjo while on the ground. He called all of his friends on his cell. He named every American president in history. Then he got up to run with the ball. His knee inadvertently knocked the ball out of his grasp. The ref reviewed the play. He stared at the play, watching it in slow motion, again and again.

Then he decided it was an incomplete pass. No, seriously, he did! It wasn't on the fly, he reviewed it that way!

Yesterday, Tom Penders, head coach of Houston, fainted during the game. The refs gave him a technical foul, I guess assuming he was faking. As Penders was carted off, after he was resuscitated, the refs did not rescind the technical.

Both are terrible.