Referee not knowing the rules

[Jon Stratis]

Originally Posted by rwkling1

The ironic part is, it did happen multiple times, at least 3 or 4 times, it's just that you can't see it. So in that case it would not have been a 3 point penalty, rather a 20, so yes, it does make a difference

The key there being that we can't see it. The camera simply doesn't show the right part of the field the entire time for any of us to be sure there were more violations. I've seen situations before where one or two individuals had themselves convinced "A" happened, but when video became available it was actually "B". Short of memory ("eye witness reports" are the least trusted evidence by police... get 3 people to watch something and interview them afterwards, and you'll end up hearing 4 completely different stories of what happened), we simply can't see that anything other than a 3 point penalty was missed.