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[Parsons] (on missed holding calls) It’s an offensive league!! It would be boring for their viewership if they called 10 holdings!! (twitter.com)

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[–] BrotherMouzone3@alien.top 1 points 1 year ago

Offensive holding is the worst.

It can be called on every snap...so the refs can use it to control the flow of a game. Sometimes they swallow their whistles.

Worst is when "Team A" is expected to win by a decent margin but it feels like the league wants a nail-biter. They'll start calling holding on every big play Team A gets so that they stay in 3rd & long situations. Team B hangs in the game long enough to make it interesting. Refs will throw some random penalties at Team B later in the game to even up the flags.

Team B gets a bunch of ticky tack calls and thinks the league conspired against them late in the game. Team A feels like they got a bunch of momentum killing calls early....and would have blown out Team B otherwise.