{"id":355574,"date":"2025-12-18T07:05:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355574\/"},"modified":"2025-12-18T07:05:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-18T07:05:10","slug":"rams-star-puka-nacua-tells-livestreamers-that-nfl-refs-are-the-worst","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/355574\/","title":{"rendered":"Rams star Puka Nacua tells livestreamers that NFL refs ‘are the worst’"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Puka Nacua<\/a> thinks NFL referees are \u201cthe worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

He feels they fabricate calls just so their friends can see them on TV.<\/p>\n

But, to be honest, the Rams<\/a> star receiver doesn\u2019t seem too upset about the situation. <\/p>\n

During a livestream Tuesday with YouTubers N3on and Adin Ross, Nacua was asked if he thought referees might bend the truth at times when making their calls.<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, a hundred percent,\u201d Nacua answered matter-of-factly. \u201cYes, the refs are the worst.\u201d<\/p>\n

The third-year player continued in the same casual manner, saying that NFL officials are generally part-time employees who probably get a thrill when they appear on screen during national broadcasts \u2014 even if it\u2019s while making a call.<\/p>\n

\u201cThese guys are lawyers, and like really they want to be on TV, too, bro,\u201d Nacua said. \u201cYou don\u2019t think he\u2019s texting his friends in the group chat like, \u2018Yo, you guys just saw me on \u201cSunday Night Football.\u201d Like, that wasn\u2019t [pass interference], but I called it.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

He added: \u201cI mean, these guys are normal human beings, too.\u201d <\/p>\n

The NFL\u2019s competition committee states on the league\u2019s football operations website<\/a> that \u201ccriticism of officiating has always been considered conduct detrimental to the League.\u201d Such conduct is often met with a fine. Cleveland Browns defensive end Myles Garrett<\/a>, Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Patrick Mahomes<\/a> and Chiefs coach Andy Reid<\/a> have all been fined for public criticism of officiating in recent years.<\/p>\n

The NFL did not immediately respond to questions from The Times on a possible fine for Nacua. <\/p>\n

During another portion of the livestream, Nacua agrees to do a celebration dance of Ross and N3on\u2019s choice after his next touchdown. With Nacua out of earshot, the two YouTubers discuss whether the 2023 Pro Bowl player would get in trouble if they have him perform a move that references an offensive stereotype about Jewish people. Ross is Jewish, but he often performs the move and teaches others how to do it in his livestreams.<\/p>\n

He ends up teaching the move to Nacua, who practices it with Ross and promises to do it during a game. Ross does not explain the meaning of the move to Nacua, and the star receiver gives no indication he knows its background.<\/p>\n

The Times reached out to the Rams and Nacua\u2019s agent and did not receive an immediate response.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Puka Nacua thinks NFL referees are \u201cthe worst.\u201d He feels they fabricate calls just so their friends can…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":355575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[559],"tags":[49970,64,63,20971,130231,128547,36987,35357,194876,8844,593,194875,194879,194877,20795,85,64631,427,194878],"class_list":["post-355574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nfl","tag-adin-ross","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-call","tag-conduct","tag-criticism","tag-fine","tag-guy","tag-livestream-tuesday","tag-move","tag-nfl","tag-nfl-official","tag-nfl-ref","tag-nfl-referee","tag-puka-nacua","tag-sports","tag-times","tag-tv","tag-youtubers-n3on"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=355574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/355574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/355575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=355574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=355574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=355574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}