Just like the next guy I am very enthusiastic about sports. We all know there are makeup calls in sports. Referees and officials are human and make mistakes. Sometimes the mistakes are in our favors, in which you kind of just brush off and accept because it helps out your team. However, if the call is not in your favor, at least with me, I usually get pretty pissed off and want to kill the official. I think the calls usually happen on accident, or at least I would like to think this way. I do not think that referees or officials give extra leeway to athletes such as Michael Jordan, Alex Rodriguez, the Manning brothers, etc… These athletes are professionals and are treated as such. I have seen Lebron James get many fouls called against him, as well as balls called strikes on A. Rod. It’s simple human error. Professional athletes want the challenge of good competition. It is not fair to say that Michael Jordan got so many calls in his favor because he was a big name icon. There is no doubt that there were calls in Michael Jordan’s favor, however this was because of the fast paced motion of the game. Basketball is very tricky to officiate. There are many rules and so many things happening at once that the officials are going to make the correct calls all of the time. This is why television reviews have come in for extra help, so the call is right.
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I agree that there are makeup calls in sports. Because of the rules of the sport, whatever sport it happens to be, officiating can be very tricky. Thus they do make makeup calls in order to redeem themselves. I think that officiating responds as best it can to the situation at hand. The action occurs in a split second and it is hard to consistently and accurately officiate every second of every game. Also, I would assert that officials may have bias, and thus officiate with preconceived notions of their ideal outcome.
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