Bad refs

I'm deeply disappointed in the Superbowl ref's. I'm new to this football thing, us europeans play soccer instead, but after having taken my time to learn about all the weird rules, several of these calls didn't make sense at all. Now don't get me wrong, the refs in soccer make bad calls all the time, but with soccer you have only 1 ref and 2 linesmen. With football you have a soccer team worth of referees running around, "the people upstairs" and instant replays that the referee can watch. With all that I naively had expected that games wouldn't be decided based on arbitrary referee calls.

My next stop into the wonderful world of american sports will be tomorrows PBA Professional Bowling Tour. Hopefully referees will not play such a dominant role there.