REFS MUST HAVE HAD THE UNDER

[Dadraftnick]

Is it just me or were the refs trying to rip off the Bengals. I watched the refs refuse to make call after after call on the Vikings (they were holding on nearly every play) while making calls on the Bengals left and right. I have no doubt that the Bengals deserved some of penalties that were called against them but, the refs must have ripped the Bengals off for 21 points. It looked like the refs had the under and were protecting their bet. Like once the score got to a certain point they were going to shut down or atleast slow down the scoring . The line on the game was 47 and, it looked kind of funny the way they called back 2 TD's and an interception near the goal line.As a Bengal fan I guess I should be used to it and all things considered we won. But that still doesn't make right.

[Stripes]

Refs trying to rip us off? We did commit plenty of penalties, but they were false starts and off-sides calls that no ref would get wrong.

The refs were NOT OUT TO GET US.

We won by 29 freaking points for Christ's sake!

[The_Next_Big_Thing]

Dadraftnic, once again you show your ignorance. Pay attention to the game, there was no refs against us. The penalties were legit.

[BengalszoneBilly]

This is one thread I didn't expect to see after the Bengals winning by 29 points either!

Losing by 6 or less? Sure. But today?

[buck3y3d]

The penalties were legit, and i'm not going to quibble. However, i did see David Pollack held quite a bit by their left guard, when Pollack blitzed from the right end position.

[Wraith]

Minnesota was holding all over the place I saw holds on Pollack, Smith, Geathers and Thornton that were just blatent none were called.

[membengal]

Add one more person who noticed that the Bengals were placed in choke holds all afternoon with nothing called. Minny held on damn near every play.

Perhaps it is normal that the refs swallow their whistles in situations like that, dunno, the Bengals are so rarely in the position they were in today, I had very few references for what I was watching.

[MacD BengalFan]

Add three more people who witnessed the ref's swallowing their whistles and not calling Minnisota's constant holding. That would be me, my wife and mother-in-law. We all were jumping out of our seats screaming "holding" on nearly every down and the refs forgot where they keep the penalty flags. They may not have tried to slow the Bengals down, but they were making it easy for the Vike's to try and complete a pass.

[BengalszoneBilly]

Let's look at this realistically. There isn't one play that goes off in an NFL game where someone is not being held a little bit, and it's not called. Sometimes it's a great deal more than a "little bit," and falls into the "Flat Out Got Mugged" category, and it's still not called.

Cincinnati had an undisiplined Oakland Raider-ish 17 freakin' penalties called against them and still romped. Be happy. Winning like that is the exception, not the rule.

Oh...screw the over-under. A win is a win.

[membengal]

I am NOT unhappy billy, and I don't think anyone else mentioning this is either.

I am genuinly puzzled...perhaps it is normal when a team is so far ahead like the Bengals were to have holding by the offensive line of the team getting monkey-stomped ignored. Since the Bengals have not been in that position much, it is a new thing for me to wonder about.

That said, Culpepper would have been down about 15 more times if they had not blatently held on Smith and Geathers on almost every play in the second half.

That's all. Just an observation.

[BengalszoneBilly]

I am NOT unhappy billy, and I don't think anyone else mentioning this is either.

I am genuinly puzzled...perhaps it is normal when a team is so far ahead like the Bengals were to have holding by the offensive line of the team getting monkey-stomped ignored. Since the Bengals have not been in that position much, it is a new thing for me to wonder about.

Hmmm. Maybe it is such a new phenomenom to us as Cincinnati fans that we don't recognize such things. Good point.

[MacD BengalFan]

Yes, a win is a win. But the ref's have a job to do and they only did half of it. The missed calls happened in front of a ref and they didn't make the call. It is a little frustrating to see it from the comfort of your own home and the ref, who is standing right next to it, not call it.

[DC_Bengals_Fan]

I'm guessing they wanted to get the hell out of there, the game was done mid-Q2. There was also an obvious grounding penalty that wasn't called. And add me to the list of people who saw tons of holding that wasn't called. In the end, doesn't matter.

In the end, I think that the refs either didn't want to call anything that could be considered ambiguous, or else those refs just call holding fairly lightly.