That's why the teams play so hard for home field advantage.
Losers Rule Number One; When you lose, blame the refs.
If they start fining ref’s for bad calls .....
Too bad, I hate to see the drooling psychopathic Belly-Upchuck get a win he didn't earn.
All one can do is shake their head. He had the ball in his hand for two or three steps.
Could the Ravens coach have initiate a challenge?
Borderline calls can go either way. That's why I don't complain about them. If you put yourself in a position to lose by a borderline call, blame yourself.
We wuz robbed!
who cares about the NFL or NBA anymore....nothing but a bunch of worthless thugs....while Rome burns.
jock sniffs need to get a life.
Looked to me the receiver did not have control of the ball. Correct ruling.
If that was a Brady to Wexler pass.....
TOUChDOWN!!!!!!!!!
I have no dog in this fight - IMHO no catch. Watching it at full speed, he did not have it. I don’t think the play by play guys even gave the call a second thought, or questioned it in any way.
They oughta take the case to court. Let the courts decide.
Wow. What a crazy ending. Great game. Baltimore almost beat the heavily favored Patriots (and maybe actually did beat them but for a bad ref call).
The league disagrees. “The ruling on the field of an incomplete pass was confirmed by the Instant Replay assistant, correctly, and as a result, there was no need to stop the game,” the league said in a statement forwarded to PFT by spokesman Michael Signora. “The receiver did not get his second foot down in the end zone with possession, and as a result, it was an incomplete pass.”At most, they could have asked for a review, but there was nothing there to justify overturning the on-field call.Former V.P. of officiating and current FOX rules analyst Mike Pereira expressed a similar sentiment via text message to PFT. “Clearly not a catch,” Pereira said. “Ball coming out before second foot clearly down. . . . No need to review it because it was clearly incomplete.”
Just filling some sports page space.
I think there is some poetic justice here. I was rather exasperated watching the Ravens beat the Texans last week with zero penalties called against them.
I think the NFL is becoming more and more like pro wrestling where viewing audiences must suspend certain rational beliefs about how penalties and non-calls influence the outcomes so decisively.
I have for 5 years been an increasingly bitter Cowboys fan. I long noticed the increasing of penalties called against the Cowboys since their dynasty years in the 1990s. I reviewed some data this year looking not just at how often they were called but how often their opponents are called.
For some strange reason, teams commit far fewer penalties when they place Dallas.
http://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/opponent-penalties-per-game?date=2011-02-07
It would not be hard to create differentials between team/opponent penalty calls. Figure out who has the highest differentials. The refs are definitely shaping the outcomes of these games in my opinion.
