Worst Call Ever - #Protest

[Fosco33]

Enough said

[mraynrand]

Packers won

[mraynrand]

Packers won. Packers won.

[mraynrand]

2-1 Green Bay Packers

[Harlan Huckleby]

Ha ha ha ha! I think they might have gotten that last call wrong.

You have to laugh at the freak parade. It's only one game. That game was painful.

[MadtownPacker]

Some bullshit!!! Why didnt Jennings just knock it down, fuck!!

[Fosco33]

Why play the game at all then? The NFL is loving the controversy - and to me it should be a serious question of the integrity of the game. Pay the refs. Hopefully M3 can use this as motivation. But to me - this entire season is now affected - unless the Pack somehow wins the division by 2 games now. So fricken stupid.

[Little Whiskey]

I am done watching this version of the NFL. This game was the last straw.

[denverYooper]

Worst part was that was the second time they tried to give Seattle the game.

[OS PA]

2-1 *

[OS PA]

Rodgers just drops another doozy - "Would have been nice not to have had the kicking ball during that two point conversion."

[King Friday]

A lot of non-Packer fans are on ESPN sounding off that this was a complete and utter joke. Goodell, a power hungry mogul, is going to ruin this league just as David Stern has ruined the NBA. The NFL has to save a couple bucks on the refs when they make BILLIONS from their product. What a joke.

[denverYooper]

https://twitter.com/TJLang70/status/250445192577036290

Got fucked by the refs.. Embarrassing. Thanks nfl

[Fosco33]

If the NFL replacement refs were judging the Revolutionary War, we'd all be British.

[Fosco33]

@BrandianRoss: They must had talk to the buffalo wild wings people when reviewing that play.

[mraynrand]

Some bullshit!!! Why didnt Jennings just knock it down, fuck!!

He was busy intercepting it

[mraynrand]

@BrandianRoss: They must had talk to the buffalo wild wings people when reviewing that play.

:lol:

[mraynrand]

Rodgers just drops another doozy - "Would have been nice to have not have the kicking ball during that two point conversion."

Oh, that's what he said. I couldn't make that out. CLUSTERFUCK

[Fosco33]

@GuyClifton
Dear Roger Goodell: Vince McMahon just called your sport a fraud.

[MadtownPacker]

He was busy intercepting it
I know. Not blaming him just wishing it was any other way.

[gbpackfan]

Some bullshit!!! Why didnt Jennings just knock it down, fuck!!

The Titans did a perfect job of knocking the pass down against the Lions, did you see how that worked out? Can't blame Jennings for CATCHING THE BALL! Defense played great, got jobed. No other way to put it.

[Willard]

Anybody have Goodell's email address?

[mraynrand]

One thing that I think I can honestly say is that I wouldn't want to be on the other end of this, if the Packers had won like the Seahawks did. I would feel as cheap as when I had to sell my body for college tuition.

[denverYooper]

Everyone and their goddamn grandmother is commenting on this call right now.

[mraynrand]

Everyone and their goddamn grandmother is commenting on this call right now.

If my goddamn grandmother were still alive, this would have killed her.

[denverYooper]

Even the Denver local news is saying the Packers got flat out robbed.

[MadtownPacker]

The Titans did a perfect job of knocking the pass down against the Lions, did you see how that worked out? Can't blame Jennings for CATCHING THE BALL! Defense played great, got jobed. No other way to put it.
See my last post. Im just really disgusted by the whole game and the cherry on top ending.

[King Friday]

ESPN website lead..."Clueless in Seattle".

[Fosco33]

@ReignofTroy : Russell Wilson became the first QB in history to throw a game-winning interception.

[denverYooper]

@TJLang70 Fuck it NFL.. Fine me and use the money to pay the regular refs.

[pbmax]

If my goddamn grandmother were still alive, this would have killed her.

:lol:

But she survived your selling of the body for college?

[Badgerinmaine]

Rodgers just drops another doozy - "Would have been nice not to have had the kicking ball during that two point conversion."
Wowwwww.

[Guiness]

A lot of non-Packer fans are on ESPN sounding off that this was a complete and utter joke. Goodell, a power hungry mogul, is going to ruin this league just as David Stern has ruined the NBA. The NFL has to save a couple bucks on the refs when they make BILLIONS from their product. What a joke.

Bean counters at it everywhere. Checked out the shit Bettman is doing to the NHL lately?

[Badgerinmaine]

Even the Vikings and Bears fans I know are saying it, too.

[Joemailman]

Anybody have Goodell's email address?

Imadumbfucker@nfl.com

[cheesner]

Fuck the regular refs. 100k/year min. to 150k and they work 42 days per year. And I can picture those bastards watching this game and laughing, thinking they got the leverage now. Fire em. Hire major college refs now, and fire these idiots we have now. Put somebody in the booth who knows the rules; doesn't have his head up his ass; and can radio down the rules and advice to the new guys.

[Guiness]

Lang really spouting off. I'm sure he's gaining fans, but has to have just cost himself about $50K!

[LegandofthePack15]

One thing that I think I can honestly say is that I wouldn't want to be on the other end of this, if the Packers had won like the Seahawks did. I would feel as cheap as when I had to sell my body for college tuition.

lol (at the bold part).

I bet if Shield had pushed Tate instead, the replacement refs would've thrown a flag. And these refs were so fucking incompetent, they gave the Seahawks offense a pick-6 on the final play.

[RashanGary]

Please tell me TJ Lang didn't say "fuck the nfl"

Seriously, it wass bull shit, but they do pay his check. That's going a little far.

[mraynrand]

:lol:

But she survived your selling of the body for college?

Just one kidney. I still have the other one!

[pbmax]

Fuck the regular refs. 100k/year min. and they work 42 days per year. Fire em. Hire major college refs now, and fire these idiots we have now. Put somebody in the booth who knows the rules; doesn't have his head up his ass; and can radio down the rules and advice to the new guys.

Major college refs were told they couldn't work the replacement jobs as well as college by the major conferences. None, to my knowledge, were willing to risk it.

[Bossman641]

Please tell me TJ Lang didn't say "fuck the nfl"

Seriously, it wass bull shit, but they do pay his check. That's going a little far.

Did you watch the game? There is no such thing as too far.

[pbmax]

Please tell me TJ Lang didn't say "fuck the nfl"

Seriously, it wass bull shit, but they do pay his check. That's going a little far.

Oh he did and it was retweeted by everyone. No going back. Desmond Bishop and Sitton are right behind him.

[mraynrand]

Did you watch the game? There is no such thing as too far.

+1. Every player with integrity (Golden Tate is excluded) should give a fineable quote. See if Goodell will fine the entire league.

[King Friday]

+1. Every player with integrity (Golden Tate is excluded) should give a fineable quote. See if Goodell will fine the entire league.

I agree. The players have a stake in this, and the refs are threatening their careers when they lose control of the game and we see player aggression continue to increase as the season wears on.

Cheap shots like the one we saw on Jennings can end a career. The NFL needs to have refs that players will respect, or the entire product is a joke.

[pbmax]

Pro Football Talk has two posts on the end of the game. Earlier, after each had been up less than 15 minutes, they were the most commented upon stories on the site, over 200 approved comments a piece.

[Little Whiskey]

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A3nIVsOCUAAWRJt.jpg
http://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/264248_4292872252305_436788679_n.jpg

HUH?!

[MadtownPacker]

Cheap shots like the one we saw on Jennings can end a career. The NFL needs to have refs that players will respect, or the entire product is a joke.
Yup, as fucked up as the last one was the GJennings no call might have been almost as bad.

[King Friday]

Best tweet I've seen:

Mark Cuban -

"I would love to see what my reaction would be if a Mavs game ended like #MNF"

[Packgator]

http://www.therightscoop.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/09/definitive_catch.jpg

[jmbarnes101]

Please tell me TJ Lang didn't say "fuck the nfl"

Seriously, it wass bull shit, but they do pay his check. That's going a little far.

The Green Bay Packers pay his check, not the NFL, and the NFL just screwed them. He has every right to be pissed off and I'm pretty sure 1st amendment rights allow him to say anything he darn well pleases on his twitter account. I'm just surprised no one has sued the NFL in court over the blatant violation of 1st amendment rights.

[denverYooper]

@Aaron_Nagler:
Clay Matthews just put up Roger Goodell's direct line on his Facebook page.

[jmbarnes101]

My butt which was sitting in a chair at Applebee's during the game had as much possession of that ball as Golden Tate did.

[Freak Out]

@Aaron_Nagler:
Clay Matthews just put up Roger Goodell's direct line on his Facebook page.

LOL! Man....this is getting good.

[Rutnstrut]

Roger Goodell's number-212-450-2027

[mraynrand]

"Buttwhich" - is that like a Sandwich?

[mraynrand]

Roger Goodell's number-212-450-2027

OMG! Someone is disconnecting their phone as we blog...

[denverYooper]

Kluwe: I’m A Minnesota Viking, And I Think The Packers Got Screwed

http://deadspin.com/5946122?utm_campaign=socialflow_deadspin_twitter&utm_source=deadspin_twitter&utm_medium=socialflow

[pbmax]

The phone number is going too far. But I like their spirit. :)

[KYPack]

Just one kidney. I still have the other one!

How much you want for the other one?

[denverYooper]

https://twitter.com/glen_mcgregor/status/250578054517231617/photo/1

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A3o7abiCEAACBbs.jpg

[Joemailman]

@Aaron_Nagler:
Clay Matthews just put up Roger Goodell's direct line on his Facebook page.

Actually, I've been reading that the Facebook page that gave out the number is a fan page dedicated to Clay Matthews, not Matthews' facebook page.

[pbmax]

https://twitter.com/glen_mcgregor/status/250578054517231617/photo/1

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/A3o7abiCEAACBbs.jpg

Maybe I am an naive idiot, but is that legitimate?

[Joemailman]

My humble negative feedback left at NFL.com:

The travesty the NFL has perpetrated has reached its inevitable conclusion. On the last play of a closely contested NFL game, a game was taken from one team and handed to the other. Yes I am a Packer fan, but the criticism of what happened last night has been universal from people who love the NFL. I will watch the Packers game on Sunday because no matter how badly you people are tarnishing the NFL, I won't let you take that from me. But that's all I'll be watching. No NFL Network. No Thursday Night Football. No Sunday Night Football. No Monday Night Football. Not until you do what everyone who loves the NFL knows needs to be done.

[pbmax]

Go Mooch!

Steve Mariucci ‏@SteveMariucci
Is there one person on earth that thinks Golden Tate really caught that pass??? Anybody at all??
Retweeted by Jason Wilde

[Joemailman]

Go Mooch!

Steve Mariucci ‏@SteveMariucci
Is there one person on earth that thinks Golden Tate really caught that pass??? Anybody at all??
Retweeted by Jason Wilde

Golden Tate

[mmmdk]

Best tweet I've seen:

Mark Cuban -

"I would love to see what my reaction would be if a Mavs game ended like #MNF"

Cuban rocks!

[pbmax]

Dan Patrick just got a statement from the Lingerie League that one of the officials on the call was "let go" by the League. Not sure why.

[Bossman641]

Dan Patrick just got a statement from the Lingerie League that one of the officials on the call was "let go" by the League. Not sure why.

I've also heard that some of the officials on the game last night had been let go from the Pac 12 due to performance issues.

[Joemailman]

Dan Patrick just got a statement from the Lingerie League that one of the officials on the call was "let go" by the League. Not sure why.

He kept calling illegal hands to the...

[mmmdk]

It wasn't just one bad call in the last quater; it was several.

Give Packers the rightful win back or be forever disgraced, NFL.

Danish football league (aka. soccer) would make things right (others too); but NFL is as corrupt as Serie A in Italy. Countries built by crooks will always be crooks.

[mmmdk]

NFL expected to release explanation of last play later today...more foul shit to come into your livingroom soon.

[RashanGary]

Here's a line from an ESPN.com article.


You often hear about games in which the team who got the ball last won. This was a game in which the team who had the opportunity to be screwed last lost.

[Little Whiskey]

Go Mooch!

Steve Mariucci ‏@SteveMariucci
Is there one person on earth that thinks Golden Tate really caught that pass??? Anybody at all??
Retweeted by Jason Wilde


Golden Tate

He also doesn't think he pushed off.

[mmmdk]

How come they don't admit it in Seattle? Would people in Wisconsin admit it? I hope the latter to be true or is the "I'm not a crook" phrase an Americano mantra!? Adding shit to the pile of shit!

FUCK, I'm mad! :mad:

[Joemailman]

He also doesn't think he pushed off.

Sam Shields tripped.

[Little Whiskey]

Sam Shields tripped.

after being shoved in the back.

[Joemailman]

after being shoved in the back.

I know. I was kidding. Boy did Sam get the shaft last night. :smack:

That was actually a huge part of the play. When Shields got pushed, he got pushed into Jarrett Bush's legs, making it difficult for Bush to make a play. Bush was actually in great position to get the ball.

[mmmdk]

Sam Shields tripped.

I believe all you say - to the letter! :lol:

So Joe, how's the van & you doing [down by the river]?

[sharpe1027]

I have heard the argument that replay cannot determine possession; however, almost once a game, replay determines whether or not a WR maintains possession during the act of the catch (i.e., to the ground). Clearly Tate did not maintain possession. This is what replay was introduced to prevent. Cluster f** of screw ups.

[ThunderDan]

The Green Bay Packers pay his check, not the NFL, and the NFL just screwed them. He has every right to be pissed off and I'm pretty sure 1st amendment rights allow him to say anything he darn well pleases on his twitter account. I'm just surprised no one has sued the NFL in court over the blatant violation of 1st amendment rights.

The NFL hasn't taken anyones 1st amendment rights away. The 1st amendment lets you have free speech it doesn't say that there are no repercussions for your speech.

The players are saying exactly what they want.

[ThunderDan]

I have heard the argument that replay cannot determine possession; however, almost once a game, replay determines whether or not a WR maintains possession during the act of the catch (i.e., to the ground). Clearly Tate did not maintain possession. This is what replay was introduced to prevent. Cluster f** of screw ups.

But the ball never hit the ground.

[sharpe1027]

But the ball never hit the ground.

He lost the ball.

Article 3. Completed or Intercepted Pass.

"If the player loses the ball while simultaneously touching both feet or any part of his body other than his hands to the ground, or if there is any doubt that the acts were simultaneous, it is not a catch."

[mraynrand]

He lost the ball.

He never had it. His right arm was on Jenning's right arm. He MOVED his arm off Jennings and to the ball AFTER Jennings was already on the ground. There was no point, before Jennings was on the ground where Tate had the ball. Maybe there was a point after he move his arm off Jennings that he got one hand actually to touch the ball, before Jennings was down.*

*all that is pointless - we know Jennings intercepted the ball - everyone knows it. The game is a fraud.

[sharpe1027]

But the ball never hit the ground.

Player Going to the Ground. If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass (with or
without contact by an opponent), he must maintain control of the ball throughout the process of contacting
the ground, whether in the field of play or the end zone. If he loses control of the ball, and the ball touches
the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching
the ground, the pass is complete.


The rule leaves an ambiguous area where the ball never hits the ground and there is no clear possession. However, a similar situation happens when a WR goes out of bounds and bobbles the ball before he gains full control. In that case, it is reviewable. The difference is that instead of out of bounds, it is into Jennings hands. If a WR bobbles the ball into the air and a DB grabs it out of the air, it is an INT and would be reviewable for the same. This is virtually the same thing. I see no meaningful difference.

[sharpe1027]

He never had it. His right arm was on Jenning's right arm. He MOVED his arm off Jennings and to the ball AFTER Jennings was already on the ground. There was no point, before Jennings was on the ground where Tate had the ball. Maybe there was a point after he move his arm off Jennings that he got one hand actually to touch the ball, before Jennings was down.*

*all that is pointless - we know Jennings intercepted the ball - everyone knows it. The game is a fraud.

No doubt. But the if we assume the replay official must stick with the official's call in the field that he did have possession at some point, they can still review whether or not he maintained possession going to the ground. They do it all the time.

[mraynrand]

No doubt. But the if we assume the replay official must stick with the official's call in the field that he did have possession at some point, they can still review whether or not he maintained possession going to the ground. They do it all the time.


Of course. He never had possession. It should have been called correctly or reversed.*






*I can't for the life of me understand how the guys who looked at the replay could think that Tate caught that ball

[ThunderDan]

Player Going to the Ground. If a player goes to the ground in the act of catching a pass (with or
without contact by an opponent), he must maintain control of the ball throughout the process of contacting
the ground, whether in the field of play or the end zone. If he loses control of the ball, and the ball touches
the ground before he regains control, the pass is incomplete. If he regains control prior to the ball touching
the ground, the pass is complete.

The ball never touched the ground.

No matter what Jennings had the ball.

[sharpe1027]

The ball never touched the ground.

No matter what Jennings had the ball.

He must regain control for the pass to be complete.

[mmmdk]

Gotta eat - I'll be back bitches!

[packers11]

"NFL confirms the result of the game "is final." There you have it "- VIA Twitter

[sharpe1027]

Disgusting position by the NFL. At no point does Tate ever have anything close to possession. To stand by the ruling is unbelievable. What are they thinking?

[VegasPackFan]

I knew they would take that pansy ass position. It is CLEAR on replay that we had that ball. They cannot possibly admit that there is clear evidence because they would have to admit that the replay refs also screwed up (they are not replacements) and they would also have to answer then take a position on whether the result should be overturned. They dont want to deal with either of those issues.

[denverYooper]

This is kind of fascinating. I mean, how many times do you hear about the refs being horrible and costing the team a game, but that discussion being mostly from the fanbase and talking heads more or less evenly discussing the issue. It's almost surreal how unanimous the response has been. The call was clearly wrong (in addition to several others that night) but how often would this be amplified so much?

Everyone has been waiting for the replacement refs to screw up a call that swings the end of a game and now it's happened. And the Packers, one of the most popular teams in the league, have just become the poster team for this argument. I doubt that they are the assassination of the Archduke, but clearly a spark has been touched to the powder keg.

[channtheman]

This is kind of fascinating. I mean, how many times do you hear about the refs being horrible and costing the team a game, but that discussion being mostly from the fanbase and talking heads more or less evenly discussing the issue. It's almost surreal how unanimous the response has been. The call was clearly wrong (in addition to several others that night) but how often would this be amplified so much?

Everyone has been waiting for the replacement refs to screw up a call that swings the end of a game and now it's happened. And the Packers, one of the most popular teams in the league, have just become the poster team for this argument. I doubt that they are the assassination of the Archduke, but clearly a spark has been touched to the powder keg.


It truly is amazing how unanimous the outcry has been.

[HowardRoark]

Just one kidney. I still have the other one!

I always thought you Randites donated your hearts.

[Guiness]

I know why this play is the focus, but IMO this was the least egregious of the three blown calls near the end of the game. The PI called against Shields when Rice grabbed him by the shoulder pad and spun him around kept the drive alive, and the roughing the passer call against Walden that overturned McMillian's INT were both worse. The Packers got the ball back after those though, so I guess they weren't as game changing. Sure altered field position though.

[sharpe1027]

I know why this play is the focus, but IMO this was the least egregious of the three blown calls near the end of the game. The PI called against Shields when Rice grabbed him by the shoulder pad and spun him around kept the drive alive, and the roughing the passer call against Walden that overturned McMillian's INT were both worse. The Packers got the ball back after those though, so I guess they weren't as game changing. Sure altered field position though.

Both also terrible calls, but neither of those plays was 1) reviewed by the booth or 2) subject to two different calls by two different officials. The non-ejection of the Jennings cheap shot was also poor judgement.

[Joemailman]

Steve Rosenbloom of the Chicago Tribune rips Goodell a new one.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/sports/rosenblog/chi-a-plan-to-end-goodells-clown-college-of-refs-20120925,0,3677441,full.column

A plan to end Goodell's clown college of refs

A controversial call leads to a Seattle Seahawks win against the Green Bay Packers.
Steve Rosenbloom

The NFL is a joke. A disgrace. An embarrassment.

Specifically, Commissioner Roger Goodell and the owners.

They are playing the fans for suckers.

They are playing the players for suckers.

They are playing the coaches for suckers.

They are playing their broadcast partners for suckers.

Goodell and his band of village idiots are forcing two-bit officials on a $9 billion monopoly.

They have locked out the real officials over a comparatively piddling sum, showing that money can’t buy brains. But it can cost you integrity.

Because the NFL is a monopoly, Goodell and the clown owners can choose to piddle away their credibility any way they want to.

Because it’s on national television and will be replayed everywhere all the time, Goodell presides over a joke.

Goodell’s brilliant idea of fake officials for real games has created real problems at an exponential rate. Most recently, Goodell’s goofballs cost the Packers a win late Monday night in Seattle in perhaps the most laughable example of this fraud.

Goodell obviously doesn’t care. Or he’s an idiot. Maybe both, and he has a lot of company in the owners who are encouraging this joke or standing idly by while their NFL gets pantsed by fake officials whose chief qualifications appear to be owning a fantasy team.

The fake officials hosed the Packers with the last call of the game, which ought to be the last call these fake officials make. They were wrong and bad on so many levels on just one call.

It’s not just that Seattle’s Golden Tate got away with pass interference on a Hail Mary. It’s not just that Green Bay’s M.D. Jennings leaped to grab the ball and came down with it against his chest to seemingly preserve a Packers win. It’s not just that the fake officials looked at each other as if neither had a clue and then slowly, tentatively raised their arms, guessing it was a touchdown.

No, it’s not even all of that rolled into one mind-boggling incident of idiocy. It’s that the fake officials upheld their own stupidity upon review. The fake ref had a chance to get it right a second time. The fake ref and his crew blew it a second time.

And Goodell and the idiot owners are blowing a season.

Goodell rounded up some goofs who who ill-equipped for the speed of the NFL game. They’re equally ill-equipped to make decisions at that speed, and man, are they ever toast when it comes to tricks and dirty play.

Players and coaches are pushing the fake officials to see how much they can get away with, and it has become a jailbreak.

Then, when faced with tough decisions under tense conditions, the fake officials choke. They aren’t prepared, but they are affecting hundreds, if not thousands, of futures because Uncle Roger said they could.

You might be a Bears fans who’s happy that the Packers got hosed. Fine, but listen up: You ought to hate Goodell and his stupidity more because what happened to the Packers in Seattle could easily happen to the Bears in Dallas. Bad officials are even worse if the you’re the road team.

Goodell has yet to listen to reason. He stubbornly refuses to believe his eyes. But you know what he believes?

Money, that’s what.

Money is Goodell’s God. Money is the God of these chucklehead owners. So, if Goodell wants to lock out the real officials, then fans ought to lock out the NFL’s corporate sponsors who represent a big chunk of the NFL’s God.

Here’s my idea: Make the corporate sponsors question their investment in this clown college.

Stay away from the people who happily identify themselves as official NFL sponsors. Boycott them and let everybody know it on every social media outlet.

Swoosh this, Nike.

Stick it, Pepsi.

From Twitter to Facebook, it’s not that hard to make this boycott work. Bring sanity back to the NFL 140 characters at a time.

If the NFL continues to insist on forcing fake officials into deciding the season, then we all need to tweet that we’re officially buying the competing product of the NFL’s official sponsors.

I’m going Goodyear, Bridgestone.

Corona is taking me miles away from the ordinary, Bud.

The idea is to make the money train run over Goodell and the inert idiots running the teams. It’s the only thing they understand, so it’s worth a shot to make them understand how much we hate what they’ve done to the game in this situation.

I don’t know if a boycott of NFL sponsors could work. But it’s only a couple sentences at a time and not even that if we all start retweeting.

We have to get their attention, and the threat of losing money does that, believe me.

And believe me about this: I love Coke. Coming to a tweet near you.

[mmmdk]

Steve Rosenbloom for president...get a fucking 3rd, 4th [or more] party going. Feed the crooks to the lions or stay crooks.

[Guiness]

Steve Rosenbloom of the Chicago Tribune rips Goodell a new one.

Wow, when a Chicago writer is upset after a GB loss, you know the universe has turned upside down!

[denverYooper]

In protest, I'm never buying another Bud Light again.

In fact, to retroactively protest, I haven't bought Bud Light as far back as I can recall.

[denverYooper]

This will be the easiest protest ever. I haven't bought Corona, Bud, Nike, or Pepsi products in years.

[Little Whiskey]

I know why this play is the focus, but IMO this was the least egregious of the three blown calls near the end of the game. The PI called against Shields when Rice grabbed him by the shoulder pad and spun him around kept the drive alive, and the roughing the passer call against Walden that overturned McMillian's INT were both worse. The Packers got the ball back after those though, so I guess they weren't as game changing. Sure altered field position though.

While i agree with this post, the main difference is that there was time after each of those miss/blown calls to possibly rebound.

[Smidgeon]

You know, I'm not sure the outlash would have been quite as loud if it wasn't against the Packers.

I hate that it happened to the team that I care about, but I wouldn't have cared nearly as much if it happened anywhere else. Maybe the blessing is that it did happen to one of the few teams that everyone cares about (even if they only care enough to hate the Pack).

[denverYooper]

Rodgers going off right now on his show.

[mraynrand]

Coke and New Balance. Fuck you, NFL!!

[K-town]

http://uglyfours.com/ugly-fours/2012/9/25/roger-goodell-now-with-30-more-hypocrisy.html

Thought this was apt.

[Freak Out]

http://uglyfours.com/ugly-fours/2012/9/25/roger-goodell-now-with-30-more-hypocrisy.html

Thought this was apt.

Welcome to the XFL.

[PaCkFan_n_MD]

I'd actually rather lose that way then win. Let them have it.

[mmmdk]

I'd actually rather lose that way then win. Let them have it.

I hear you!

My updated and newest 'loathe other NFL teams' list is up:

Vikings, Seahawks, Eagles, Cowboys and Broncos. No Bears you say? Well, I do not like the Bears but it's the best rivalry in football history and always worth watching.

[Pugger]

I agree. The players have a stake in this, and the refs are threatening their careers when they lose control of the game and we see player aggression continue to increase as the season wears on.

Cheap shots like the one we saw on Jennings can end a career. The NFL needs to have refs that players will respect, or the entire product is a joke.

Remember that great 3rd down conversion to Finley in the 3rd? If you rewatch the game you'll see Jordy get knocked on his ass and no flag to be seen.

[Pugger]

@Aaron_Nagler:
Clay Matthews just put up Roger Goodell's direct line on his Facebook page.

Clay doesn't have a Facebook page. I heard a WI state senator put the number up.

[Pugger]

I have heard the argument that replay cannot determine possession; however, almost once a game, replay determines whether or not a WR maintains possession during the act of the catch (i.e., to the ground). Clearly Tate did not maintain possession. This is what replay was introduced to prevent. Cluster f** of screw ups.

Possession cannot be challenged except in the end zone so the imbeciles still got it wrong.

[George Cumby]

Possession cannot be challenged except in the end zone so the imbeciles still got it wrong.

Imbeciles. Yes. Imbeciles. Drooling, slope-headed, moronic, inbred, potato-brained, mongoloid, block-headed, doltish, feeble-minded, idiotic, retarded dunces.

Imbeciles.

[mmmdk]

Seattle media putting spin to MNFailure last night; implying & asking if it was karma for the Sealiars for their SB loss? WTF???

[MadtownPacker]

http://uglyfours.com/ugly-fours/2012/9/25/roger-goodell-now-with-30-more-hypocrisy.html

Thought this was apt.
A true collectors item.

http://uglyfours.com/storage/PACKERSTHISSHIRTEXISTS.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERS ION=1348558891132

[LEWCWA]

very cool

[denverYooper]

It's bordering on ridiculous how many players are asked about the call and they pretty much all say the same thing.

[MJZiggy]

I'm taking the money I would have spent on gear this season and donating it to a player's charity instead. Go Driver Foundation!

[Teamcheez1]

Reading around the net, Seahwaks fans are now justifying the call saying that receivers make one-handed catches all the time. Therefore Tate sticking one hand on the ball justifies the simultaneous catch. Delusional in my opinion, but we ended up with the loss.

I know one additional team I will be rooting against this season.

[HarveyWallbangers]

I think Seattle fans have handled it better than most. There was a poll in one of the Seattle newspapers on whether Tate should have been awarded a TD, and something like 85% said no. The headline in the Seattle paper said "Seahawks steal one."

[pbmax]

No problem with Seattle players or fans here. Already didn't like Carroll so nothing has changed there! If Jordy or Finley had pulled that off I would be calling him brilliant and that's just the breaks. If Seattle fans want to trade a Super Bowl for a reg season win, they can knock themselves out.

My only concern is the response of the team (esp. offense) this Sunday.

[sharpe1027]

I don't blame Tate for the official's call. I am not impressed by his denials after-the-fact. You can conjure up hypothetical one-handed catches, but the reality is to show possession with one hand, you need to show that you have control of the ball. Jennings had both hands and the ball pinned to his chest. How in the hell could Tate have control of the ball with one hand in that situation?