Did anyone see the St Frances Academy at Venice Indians game on ESPN2 last night? I like to stay away from discussing the refereeing but this was beyond ridiculous.
I watched much of the game while speaking on the phone with Wavebb. He stated that it appeared the refs must have been chosen from the Venice Indians Booster Club lol. The fact it was broadcasted throughout the United States is a black eye to the state of Florida. The pro-Venice calls protected the Indians from a 50+ point devastation. The final score was SFA 34-17 which looks respectable but it was not.
The ESPN announcers could not help from speaking about it throughout the game. Late in the game one of the announcers stated that SFA had been called for “the cycle of penalties”. During one of Venice’s TD drives, if you can call them that, a clear fumble was ruled the player was down. It was not even close. The other was the TD score where a SFA player knocked the ball out of the Venice player’s hands grasp at the 1 before going across the goal line. That one was somewhat of a bang-bang play but the ref committed his own illegal procedure with his TD signal.
Believe it or not I appreciate Jambun’s attempts to explain ref calls. I would love to see him explain the referees’ performance in this travesty.
