NFL MNF Officiating

[Babalonian]

That is the best they have?

I really did not care who won or lost but the officials stunk the whole game up. No more NFL for me.

Honestly, the sheer amount of sponsorship/commercialising (every sunday game seems like the super bowl now with the amount of ads shoehorned in), it's been as bad as watching baseball on TV for me and the last couple years (puts me to sleep).

Welcome to the dark side.  After the first few weeks cold turkey, soccer (that other football) and other non-american-over-franchised sports starts looking really exciting and fun to watch on TV.

[Shuffler]

Count how many hands were on the ball when they hit the ground. That's what determines it.
The ball was still live when they  were airborn. 

Offense guy had one arm on the ball till after they landed. Even the NFL admits the problem but it was not reviewable.

[Ripsnort]

According to every sportscaster out there, and about 50 tweets from other NFL players after the game that call was bunk.

According to one guy on an internet forum that call was good.


Call must have been good.

P.S.  You forgot this in your quote of the NFL's response. 

Yep, there are missed calls in every game. With or without union refs. Of course, there was also the drive that would have been stopped had the refs not thrown a pass intference all on the hawks, would have stopped the GB scoring drive, but let's not go through every bad call...let's just re-live the one final call that gave us the win.  

[Krupinski]

[Tec]

Yep, there are missed calls in every game. With or without union refs. Of course, there was also the drive that would have been stopped had the refs not thrown a pass intference all on the hawks, would have stopped the GB scoring drive, but let's not go through every bad call...let's just re-live the one final call that gave us the win.  

We could also talk about the call that gave the Seahawks the only hint of momentum they had in the second half, the DPI, that was really OPI, or the roughing the passer on the INT. 

This is the call that gets all the press being as it was an end of game call on Monday Night Football with everyone watching, but if there is one call over the weekend that truly proves the ineptitude involved here it has to be this.

Most confusing was the mark-off for a Lions penalty in overtime at Tennessee. Officials wound up penalizing Detroit from its 44-yard line rather than from the original line of scrimmage, the Titans 44.

Something has to give.

[Ripsnort]

Most of you will not know who this is, but you will in a couple of years. He's still work in progress...

[Babalonian]

Picture of the honeymoon:

[Ripsnort]

LOL! I am soooo stealing that!

[Ripsnort]

8 sacks though. ohhhh weeeee!

[cattb]

The game needs the pro refs, not the ones hired from pop warner. Just a minute, those refs probably make better calls then what  the NFL have now.

[Hajo]

In my 55 years of watching football I've never seen anything as blatantly wrong as the call on MNF or any other that I can recall.

I'm not a Packers or Seattle Fan.  I've also seen horrible officiating in several more games this year besides this one.
Only problem this mistake can do some ireparable harm.  Could keep the Packers from making the playoffs or lose
home field advanate if they do.  This mistake could give an undeserving team a playoff spot as well as give them
home field advantage.  Seattle is the only area of the country that is defending this catastrophe.  The other 99.7%
think this call was the Officials ingnorance (hey, one guy hadda catch a plane to do a Pop Warner game Thursday)
This is only a 16 game season, not 82 and not 162.  Less margin for error.

Don't pay attention to Ripsnort.....he's a died in the wool Seahawks fan.  What'ya spect him to say 

[Zoney]

Ripsnort, the entire call was heinous.  The replacement refs who reviewed the call got it wrong also.  Every sportscaster and current or past football player except the SeaHawks players and coaches have said it was a bad call.  It was not a simultaneous reception.  When the Green Bay player is holding the ball to his chest, turned away from the Seahawks player he is catching the ball and holding on to it.  The Seahawk guy is only reaching around to get his hand in there.  There is no doubt, it is not close.
While on the ground the Green Bay player has his back to the SeaHawks player and is laying on top of him, and again, the SeaHawks player is simply reaching around the guy to put his hand on the ball with the Green Bay guy again holding onto the ball with both hands and holding it against his chest.

We can agree that bad calls happen, the game is over and we need to move on.  But you have got to be able to see that it was a bad call in consideration of what it obviously happening as I have described above.

I live in Phoenix Arizona, I am a Cardinals fan.  I am a fan of football.  I am a fan of knowing, seeing and embracing the truth. 

It was a bad call that cost the Packers the game.  None of the other "Bad Calls" during the game could definitly be said to cost either team the game as they were not the last play, in the End Zone, effecting the score enough to change the outcome.

Are you a SeaHawks fan sir ?  I hope you are a fan of football and can stand up like a man and say that the call was bad, it changed the game, and the SeHawks lucked out to get the win but they did not earn it.

[Karnak]

Is there a way to blame Bush for this?

Don't think there is any reasonable way to blame this on any politician.....

[cattb]

Ripsnort, the entire call was heinous.  The replacement refs who reviewed the call got it wrong also.  Every sportscaster and current or past football player except the SeaHawks players and coaches have said it was a bad call.  It was not a simultaneous reception.  When the Green Bay player is holding the ball to his chest, turned away from the Seahawks player he is catching the ball and holding on to it.  The Seahawk guy is only reaching around to get his hand in there.  There is no doubt, it is not close.
While on the ground the Green Bay player has his back to the SeaHawks player and is laying on top of him, and again, the SeaHawks player is simply reaching around the guy to put his hand on the ball with the Green Bay guy again holding onto the ball with both hands and holding it against his chest.

We can agree that bad calls happen, the game is over and we need to move on.  But you have got to be able to see that it was a bad call in consideration of what it obviously happening as I have described above.

I live in Phoenix Arizona, I am a Cardinals fan.  I am a fan of football.  I am a fan of knowing, seeing and embracing the truth. 

It was a bad call that cost the Packers the game.  None of the other "Bad Calls" during the game could definitly be said to cost either team the game as they were not the last play, in the End Zone, effecting the score enough to change the outcome.

Are you a SeaHawks fan sir ?  I hope you are a fan of football and can stand up like a man and say that the call was bad, it changed the game, and the SeHawks lucked out to get the win but they did not earn it.

I didnt get to watch the whole game, but I guess there was quite a few bad calls. Anyone of those calls changes the course of the game. There is always going to be bad calls and its going to happen. Right now the NFL is broken and needs to be fixed.

[Slate]

Is there a way to blame Bush for this?

  All top athletes want Bush!