If you want someone to blame put the heat on the coach for punting on 4th and 1. If you can't get one yard when you really need it you don't deserve to win the game.
They are right about it being at the refs discretion,which just leads to more problems in the interpretation.Either it is against the rules,or it isn't,once you start letting refs call penalties on their own discrection,what could possibly happen is early in the game a player from team A,runs on the field argueing a call to ref number 1,and no penalty is called.Later in same game,player B from opposite team runs on field argueing call to ref number 2,and then that ref decides to call a penalty.Same thing happens a lot with taunting calls,once you put it up to a refs discretion,different rules apply to different teams or players.
They are right about it being at the refs discretion,which just leads to more problems in the interpretation.Either it is against the rules,or it isn't,once you start letting refs call penalties on their own discrection,what could possibly happen is early in the game a player from team A,runs on the field argueing a call to ref number 1,and no penalty is called.Later in same game,player B from opposite team runs on field argueing call to ref number 2,and then that ref decides to call a penalty.Same thing happens a lot with taunting calls,once you put it up to a refs discretion,different rules apply to different teams or players.
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