[Blitzer]

I'm at a high school football game every week until the state championship games (three or four of those games are usually Perry Central games), 4 or 5 local college games and I used to ref myself (basketball, but I understand what goes into it).

I can give you my honest opinion that since Perry has moved to their new field there has been no home cooking at Perry games. I watched a game last year when refs called off what would have been a game winning TD in overtime against Letcher and extended a Harlan County drive that ended in a game winning 2 point conversion for HC.

Perry had a couple years where they received some favorable treatment by one crew (I don't deny it) and no one has shut up about it since.

Perry used to be a really hard place to play at because the fans were right up against the opposing team and it was legitimately intimidating and most teams spent as much time jawing at the fans as they did paying attention to the game.

I thought the game was called no differently than any other game around here. A team having more penalty yards than another team doesn't mean the refs did a bad job, just like basketball teams who get called for more fouls mean aren't getting cheated. They just play the game differently and get penalized more.

I understand this post is going to get replied to a million times by people saying "watch the tape" and whatever else. But I'm going vintage Zaga on this one.

zaga_fan is officially retiring from this thread

Why don't you watch some tape, where it is slowed down so you can see what people are talking about and then join the conversation! :ChairHit: