Worst Call Ever - #Protest

[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...41,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).