Guys,
As a Giants fan, he hasn't effected my team at all, but in my opinion, Referee Ed Hockulie needs to be fired immediately. He has missed an important penalty call or made a glaring bad call that has changed the outcome of the game in every game he ref'd this year!!
In the San Diego - Denver game he (the closest individual to the quarterback) was literally the only human being in the stadium who didn't know that the Denver quarterback had fumbled with less than a minute left, costing San Diego the game. When the review clearly demonstrated it was a fumble, he claimed he couldn't change the bad call, because he admittedly incorrectly had blown the whistle (that is the rule on a bad call where the whistle is blown, but that doesn't make the horribly bad call any less egregious).
He admitted to blowing a key call last week as well.
Most recently, in the game I am presently watching, he missed an obvious 15 yard facemask that caused a fumble (a ten point turn around), then called a ball that hit the ground a completed pass (reversed on review) and then called a fumble that was returned the other way to the 20 yard line down by contact, and after every single commentator on replay agreed that the ball was clearly a fumble, upheld the play on replay, with the wierdest explanation I have ever heard, that while the ball was coming loose before the runners knee hit the ground, he still had control with his finger tips!!! That was a least a six point turn around. The man is either blind, incompetent, or totally bought and paid for by the bookies.
The officiating in football is disgraceful, and this incompetent needs to go.
