By Andrew Bohovich, Jonah Broos and Spencer Barnes

One of the biggest events of the year, the “Super Bowl,” took place last Sunday, and a controversial call at the end of the game has people around the world wondering if the refs got it right. The general consensus was that Super Bowl 57 had a poor conclusion for one of the all-time great games. With 1:54 remaining and the score tied at 35, the Chiefs faced a third-down-and-8 situation. Patrick Mahomes overthrew JuJu Smith-Schuster, but the play was called a defensive holding, which gave the Chiefs the perfect opportunity to run down the clock and kick a chip shot field goal to seal the victory. When asking one student, Ty Grant, about the exact penalty he was very straight forward and said “ “That holding call against the Eagles was not valid.” When asking other students more about the game in general in terms of referring they were in the middle for the most part. Ghadiel Navarrete, a journalism major at Cronkite said: “I could care less, I don’t like either team, Eagles fans deserve everything they get.”

“They’re human, no one is perfect. There are bound to be mistakes.” Most of them made it clear that while the call in question was skeptical, it didn’t ruin the game itself. “That type of call has been common throughout the season. You hate to see so many games being decided by last-minute calls, but the refs called a fair game,” said Kinesiology major Conner De Asis, and Sam Eddy, another journalism major at Cronkite, said this about the Bradberry hold”“It was just too close of a call, but it was pretty good for the most part.” The call was questionable and it is fair to call the entirety of the game into question, but at the end of the day it is hard to allow 5 seconds of the game to inflict the other 59 minutes and 55 seconds of football that was played.