{"id":153,"date":"2012-09-12T02:34:28","date_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=153"},"modified":"2012-09-12T02:34:28","modified_gmt":"2012-09-12T02:34:28","slug":"tuesday-teabag-september-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/?p=153","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday Teabag, September 11"},"content":{"rendered":"

NFL Announcers<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yes, this is the first teabag that goes to an entire group of people.\u00a0 Why, do you ask?\u00a0 First, stereotyping is fun.\u00a0 Second, and arguably more important,\u00a0if you watched any of the games on Sunday (for the record, if you didn\u2019t watch at least 3 games while constantly checking your fantasy score(s), then you\u2019re on the wrong website) you no doubt noticed the constant talking about replacement referees.<\/p>\n

Look, we get it.\u00a0 Nobody likes the replacement refs.\u00a0 There\u2019s actually talk that (gasp!) a female referee was among these scabs.\u00a0 However, listening to the announcers on Sunday, plus all the pre and post game shows\u2026yes, we watch those too, much to the amazement of Mrs. Machine (\u201cyou already watched and know the scores of every game, why do you need to see highlights set to music?\u201d) every time a flag was thrown or a call was made, it was questioned in the booth as to whether it was legit or not.\u00a0 None more annoying than the cut shot to Mike Pereira during the Seahawks\/Cardinals game.\u00a0 Ok, the Seahawks got an extra time out.\u00a0 Big fucking deal, it didn\u2019t affect the game at all.\u00a0 Listening to Sam Rosen and Heath Evans (FYI there\u2019s a reason these fuckers are calling the Seahawks\/Cardinals game) you\u2019d think the scab refs were running around clueless.<\/p>\n

When did the regular referees get put on pedestals that can do no wrong?\u00a0 Remember when the refs got the coin toss wrong on the Lions\/Steelers Thanksgiving overtime game?\u00a0 Pretty sure the scabs didn\u2019t get that wrong over the weekend.\u00a0 There are countless other times the \u201creal\u201d refs messed up.\u00a0 In fact, instant replay was created to erase the human error made by the \u201creal\u201d refs.<\/p>\n

Listen, nobody wants to see Ed Hochuli and his guns back on the field more than The Machine, but it\u2019s such low hanging fruit for the announcers to complain and question every time the scab refs make a call, and equaling annoying when they patronize a correct call.\u00a0 Just shut up and call the game.\u00a0 If it\u2019s going to be like this every week, then this labor dispute needs to end now.\u00a0 Until then, The Machine will boil with rage every time Kenny and Moose dissect a holding call.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NFL Announcers Yes, this is the first teabag that goes to an entire group of people.\u00a0 Why, do you ask?\u00a0 First, stereotyping is fun.\u00a0 Second, and arguably more important,\u00a0if you watched any of the games on Sunday (for the record, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-153","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tuesday-teabag"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2Bp3y-2t","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=153"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":155,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153\/revisions\/155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bigredsportsmachine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}