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Doug Farrar

Twitter responds STRONGLY to referee John Hussey’s horrible Browns-49ers game

When nobody mentioned an officiating crew, you can assume that the crew did a pretty decent job. When every fan of one team is upset at an officiating crew, you can assume that things were a bit one-sided.

And when everybody watching the NFL on a Sunday is apoplectic over the performance of an officiating crew regardless of partisan status, you can assume that the crew really beefed it all day long.

That was the case for referee John Hussey and his crew in Sunday’s game between the San Francisco 49ers and the Cleveland Browns. Hussey made calls ranging from comical to outright inexplicable, and here’s the full rundown:

The Browns won the game 19-17 to drop the 49ers from the realm of the undefeated, but that was NOT the story here. Needless to say, everybody on social media was quite perturbed at Hussey, and nobody was holding back.

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