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As I love to do in the fall, I watched NFL football while eating lunch today. There was a controversial play in one of the games, and the referee ruled in favor of the visiting team.
As sports fans do, they booed the decision. As they did, I couldn’t help but wonder: Are they helping or hurting their team by booing the referee?
I could actually see this going either way:
This is a tough one–I’m not sure. What do you think? Personally, I’m just not a fan of booing in general, especially directed at the referee. Imagine if people showed up at your work and booed at you all day!
While I did my fair share of booing in the student section during my college days, I think we were pretty good about booing mostly when the calls appeared wrong on the replay. I definitely think it had led to some over correcting in the past to appease the raucous fans. The referee entrance/exit to the field was also placed (strategically?) right next to the student section for extra overcorrecting. 😉