The fat man (far right) looks on as the call is reversed. 
Posted on 01/11/2015 2:27:17 PM PST by MuttTheHoople
Everyone knew the NFL was going to make America's Team pay for winning against Detroit last week. The NFL and the Liberal Media both loathe the Dallas Cowboys. EVERY bad call went against Dallas today, including that abortion of an overrule when Dez Bryant caught that ball, fumbled it into the end zone, and recovered it for a Touchdown.
The rest of the NFL season is just Kabuki.
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Go find a Packer backer and see if they’ll give you some cheese to go with your whine.
You are correct.
They only let Dallas into the playoffs this year because they risked losing viewership if they pushed this drought any further.
Incredibly, with consistently one of the most expensive rosters of athletes in the World, the Cowboys were for several years after the dynast of super bowl wins among the most penalized teams in the NFL.
It is theater. I really wish I could give up my addiction. It is ridiculous. The wrestling metaphors are quite apt.
I hope that Troy Aikman was able to give Aaron Rogers a sponge bath after the game. I know he really admires and likes Aaron— what a great quarterback. He really is incredible you know.
Incidentally, if you are curious about how the NFL is managed by the refs, I highly recommend this website:
http://www.teamrankings.com/nfl/stat/penalty-first-downs-per-game?date=2009-02-02
At this site, you can see not simply how many penalties your team receives but how many their opponents received. You can see how many yards are transacted. You can see year to year. You can see how often teams got first downs off penalties. It is pretty clear that there are patterns and it seems far from random.
It is a ridiculous rule...but the call was good.
No matter that it made me sick.
“you should be thankful for an extra game”
I, for one, am very thankful. It was a good season. One of the best we’ve had in years!! Much fun. :)
Before that screen shot, he took three steps with control of the ball. NFL rules state two steps in control establish procession. Either the ground caused the bobble on the 1 foot line, or he fumbled and recovered in the end zone for a TD.
And what about the trap that was ruled a completion, extending a Packers scoring drive? Or do the rules bend to your team preferences?
Guess you missed the two calls the went Detroit’s way in the first half that extended two scoring drives. Those 14 points meant nothing in that game...
Laying on your forearms is not in your hands.
Well, if you keep coming into threads you aren’t interested in to comment on a subject you think is not worthy of comment, perhaps you may someday understand.
You contend that mult games were thrown to get Dallas into the post season but Cowboys fans are the tin foil hat wearers?!?!
The fat man (far right) looks on as the call is reversed.
Yeah, after that performance he should retire and I like him. More Papa John’s and less Nation Wide. I mean he only needs 5 yards for a first down and there’s no one in front of him. He could have picked it up easy. Well no, and an incomplete pass. I thought this years SB would be Denver and the Packers. Well that did not work out, and I think Rogers is too hurt to get by the Seahags. All in all I just want to see Brady go down.
Bfl
Nonsense. The only direction Dez Bryant was ever went once he made his leap to catch the ball was down to the ground. At no time was his decent from his leap halted. Sure, his legs were still moving under him, but he was clearly going straight down to the ground.
Going down to the ground is NOT a "football move".
The WWE came out as staged, and they took off. The athleticism of what those guys / gals do is still way up there. And now the debate on real or not is gone. It is staged, but the stunts are real and take talent.
I am upset about the game, but the NFL is not rigged. It’s Rules Committee suffers from the same disease that Congress does - they think they HAVE to keep coming up with more and more rules every year to be considered useful and contributing.
Therefore, we now have so many convoluted rules that every play has an infraction. And since they can’t stop every play, by definition, the officiating staff MUST resort to selective enforcement.
How many people believe that someone would devote their life’s work to officiating a game they had no favorite team in? How many people with a favorite team in a sport also have other teams they “like” and others the “dislike” since they results can help their favorite team’s standings in some way?
The system is set up for corruption.
But this is the whole point of the "Calvin Johnson Rule": after the catch, when falling to the ground, the ground cannot cause a fumble. It can only cause an incompletion.
But extending the ball toward the goal line is.
Is balancing a ball on your forearms more of a "football move" than leaning outstretched with the football in your hand?
Can you give me a consistent interpretation of the receiver position rules that backs up both calls?
*possession
If he brought the ball into his body and kept control though the ground it would have been a catch.
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He was trying to score a TD instead of ensuring the catch.
Care to guess how many touchdowns a ruled with a player "going down" outstretched with the ball in his hand in a given season? Are all those not "football moves" in your mind?
"Football move" sounds like a subjective phrase of the rule that gives officials CYA material for times like these. Because "we have made the rules such a cluster F that it can't be called" doesn't sound as good.
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