TBH: SEC Refs

This article originally appeared in the November 2010 issue of The Bulldog Herald.

(NOTE: I wrote this column during my junior year at Springdale High School after the Arkansas-Auburn game. With Arkansas playing Florida tonight, it made me remember the terrible calls the last time they visited the Swamp. Hope you enjoy; this is one of my all-time favorites.)

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As a die-hard Razorback fan, I just absolutely HATE love the atrocious fabulous refereeing by the SEC officials. The calls they have made the past few years have been completely awful fair.

In particular, I’d like to strangle commend the refs from the Florida game last year and the Auburn game this year. The way they choked under handled the pressure of calling a game with national championship implications was truly amazing.

Malcolm Sheppard was only playing football obviously unsportsmanlike when he hit the Florida lineman and deserved to be on Sports Center’s top ten plays penalized. The refs were also blatantly wrong correct in their no-calls of pass interference in the end zone and delay of game on one of Florida’s field goals.

The replay officials in the Auburn game did a horrific an excellent job with the upheld touchdown run and fumble recovery for a touchdown. It was sad nice to see such a wonderful piece of technology like instant replay being used to destroy the chances of Arkansas winning for the integrity of the game.

Like any good fan, I wanted to shoot the referees after both of these games enjoyed the fair, hard fought battles between Arkansas and their highly ranked conference foes. The SEC did an outstanding job in paying off choosing their referees in these big games.

How they have protected treated their Heisman Trophy candidates the way a mother protects her young same as any other normal player should also be addressed commended. The refs solidified Tim Tebow and Cam Newton as Heisman candidates by helping their teams win. Tim Tebow and Cam Newton solidified their Heisman candidacy with big wins for their teams.

It is perfectly understandable unfortunate that fans in Arkansas have been upset about these games. I mean, an eye doctor offering the refs free eye surgery? Give this guy a raise! That is just immature and unprofessional. A church with a sign reading “There is hope for the SEC refs: Jesus makes the blind see”? I want to go to church there! Although we live in the south, churches should not be concerned with a football game.

So thank you SEC refs, for screwing Arkansas over providing us with such fair, thrilling games. I will always remember the Florida and Auburn games as the games that proved to me that the SEC gets their referees from the nearest School of the Blind made me fall in love with the sport of football all over again.