This season was basically determined by 2 plays.  The first play was the call at the end of the Jacksonville game when they called "holding" on 4th down after the Colts had stopped them at the end of the game.  The second call was on the "holding" call on Jennings after we had stopped San Diego in overtime.  It seems ironic after watching Freeney and Mathis being held play after play that we end up losing this way.  The Colts fate was sealed when the NFL decided that they would only call holding when it would alter the outcome of the play.  Basically, they made holding a judgement call.  So, if you put your hand in Freeney's face mask or grab his jersey on every play, you can't call holding because it would not be likely that a defensive player could get to the QB every play, would it?  So, don't call holding at all.  The referees in this league are a joke.  You can't tell me that we don't hold for an entire game, but on the most critical drive we hold 3 times.   They call defensive holding on the Colts in the center of the line but they can't see a defensive lineman ram his hands in Freeney's face mask for 5 yards on an outside pass rush on a critical Charger drive.

Now, this may seem like complaining, but these are the facts.  I realize the Colts had plenty of opportunities to put this game away and we didn't do it.  But the offficiating in this league is very unreliable.  They call nothing for the entire game, then make critical questionable calls that decide the game at the most inopportune times for one of the teams.  This hasn't just happened to the Colts, other teams have had issues to.  If the NFL does not fix this, they will be compared to the NBA, and any sane sports fan knows how much creditability the NBA has.

I expect more of the NFL.  It is hard to watch a game, be a fan for your team, and go away from the game being mad because of referees calls deciding the game.  I should be mad because my team lost, not because my team lost from bad calls or calls that were different from calls made throughout the game.  When the integrity of the game is in question, it stops being about sports and becomes show business.  (Sounds like the NBA).  The league has been changing rules for years to speed up the game to fit it into TV time.  They also have fans in the stands who are paying good money to watch these games.  They don't care if a game is 3.5 hours as opposed to 3 hours.  If they did, they wouldn't buy season tickets.  They are buying tickets to see a sporting event whose outcome should be decided by players, not officials who are making judgement calls.

Again, I can accept my team losing, but it is difficult to watch my team lose by RANDOM enforcement of the rules at critical times of the games.  This is happening to often to to many teams.  Charger fans (congrats on the win) think this is payback for the Hochule call.  We lost the Jacksonville game by a bad call.  By my math we are down one.  But is that the attitude an NFL fan should have.  Of course not.

Again, I realize we had several opportunities to put this game away.  But so did San Diego.  They just got more help than we did at just the right time.  Competitive games should not end like this.