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Originally Posted by Erick Estrada
My beef is how many close games are determined by bad calls against one team. That ruins my enjoyment when I see one team clearly jobbed. I get frustrated as heck when the Stampeders continue to rack up PI calls (some warrented but many not) and teams like the Riders can mug opposing receivers and get away with it. I always like to look at the fan qoutes under the TSN story and lots were just like me talking about the mugging in the end zone of an Als receiver that wasn't called. If that was a Stamps DB there would have been flags all over the field but we know the CFL needs the Riders to get into the big game to generate money and interest but fans are getting tired of the bias as attendance is down everywhere this year and fans of the rest of the league are tiring of the Riders show the league is turning into.
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I think there are other things going on too. Watch an entire weekly slate of CFL games and you'll notice that there are a few recievers that take dives to try and get a PI call when a DB is covering them agressively.
The three worst so far this year are Geroy Simon, Jermaine Copeland and Chris Getzlaf. With Simon and Copeland I notice that the second they figure they can't catch a poorly thrown pass (That is also sufficiently away from the defender too) they flat out Daniel and Henrik Sedin dive like they were interfered with. Getzlaf at least does everything in his power to get the ball, but then flops around on the ground excessively and protests the refs after a missed catch (Last weeks Hamilton game he was an embarassment for this, the refs seemed to catch on and even when he was legitimately interfered with a couple of times later in the game they didn't call it).
As for the Stamps, it's no secret they like to play agressive man to man coverage with their DBs and as a result will have more legitimate PI calls. But I also have noticed other teams taking dives after they get a couple of legitimate PI calls making the problem worse.