Is it Just Me Or Does NFL Officiating Suck?

If you're like me, you watched some pretty horrible officiating this past weekend, both in NFL and college football.

Too many head-to-head and helmet-to-helmet hits that didn't get called, right in front of referees. Too many pass interference penalties that didn't get flagged and too many plays that weren't pass interference, or were marginal at best, that did.

Even worse, every game I watched this past weekend - every game - the officiating was so bad that the referees almost immediately send every call to the review booth for mediation rather than stick with their original conviction on the call, knowing that replay could possibly embarrass them by showing them to be wrong. It extends the game, delays the game to the point of being nearly unwatchable.

How do we fix this? Referees can't get calls right as it is. Was it a catch? Or wasn't it? Was it a fumble? Or wasn't it? Was it a touchdown? Or wasn't it? Was it a first down? Or wasn't it?

And here's one of the most egregious of all - the San Diego-Pittsburgh game Sunday night turned completely when referees refused to call a blatant false-start penalty on San Diego's right tackle. The game was not the same thereafter.

Officiating sucks, at the college and pro levels. So, NCAA and NFL, what are you doing about it, besides letting refs review obvious calls, so obvious that anyone in the stadium or watching on TV saw it all plainly with their own two eyes when it all happened in real time?

One last thought - the Bears deserved to lose to the Giants. Chase Daniel couldn't catch a cold, let alone a snap from center. The Bears defense, as feared, never met a back like Saquon Barkley, whom they couldn't tackle. And Eli Manning had a revelatory bounce back.

What's next? Green Bay firing Mike McCarthy? No, wait... Anyone think Aaron Rodgers pitched in on that decision?

Just asking...