I am a Wisconsin Green Bay Packers fan. I have a grandson who wears a Tom Brady Jersey. I am so mean I told my wife to email the grandson and ask him if he is wearing the Jersey inside out today.
The LEFT is now demanding that the New England football team change its name. The name “Patriots” is racist, homophobic, misogynistic, Islamophobic, and is demeaning to Native Americans. The name “Patriots” glorifies old white men who fought against big government and higher taxes—and wonderful government programs like prison ships in Boston Harbor.
Turnabout is fair play...Punk! I see that I am not the only one sick of seeing the refs in the tank for the Patriots!
should have scored earlier in the game. It sucks but they put themselves in the position with the idiotic Talib taking stupid penalties, and turnovers.
Expecting everyone and everything to fall exactly into place for a miraculous comeback win is not a good strategy in the NFL. They are in a good position for a team with that many injuries in key positions and BB always finds a way to win.
As a Raider fan, I’ve hate the Pats & Brady ever since the the Tuck rule incident. . .
Ha Ha its just a game boys
This is karmic retribution for the blown call against the Raiders in the snow that burdened us with the Patriot’s dynasty in the first place.
Nothing personal against you, but I see this a lot in fans. I am not sure why people somehow get their rocks off living in the past, grinding their teeth on something like the tuck rule game. It seems like pointless masturbation to me.
I am a longtime football fan and a Pats fan, and the Patriots didn’t lose that game last night because of that terrible call.
They lost the game because they fumbled the ball going in for a score, and they committed some bad penalties at key times.
They are a good team that didn’t play up to their potential, and were beaten by a good team that did play up to their potential.
That’s it.
It was a hard fought and entertaining game with the better team last night winning.
Someone who understands that would view the game as entertaining regardless of who won the game. In a season filled with completely mediocre football, that was a fun game to watch.
But hey, if someone wants to base their enjoyment of football based on a game played over a decade ago, good luck to them.
Except that was not a bad call; you could argue that the “tuck rule” was a bad rule, but the replay clearly showed that the ball was not back against Brady’s body when it fell out, and the tuck rule explicitly said once the arm moved forward, it was a forward pass even if the arm was moving backwards when the ball fell out.
This call was a much harder call, because it involves at least 3 different penalties, some of which have extenuating circumstances.
The clear penalty that could have been called was illegal contact. They were more than 5 yards from the line of scrimmage, and the defensive player was not standing still, but instead was running into the offensive player who was trying to change direction.
The second penalty is holding; wrapping your arms around the outside of the offensive player can be called holding even if you don’t physically grab the player, but that is a judgment call.
The third penalty is pass interference, if the ball was deemed in the air when the contact was made. But this can be waived if the ball is uncatchable by the person being interfered with.
That seemed to be what the officials said, although their explanation that “the ball was intercepted” was unresponsive to the question.
Has any New England team ever lost a game without their fan base crying about the officiating?
If Brady had not underthrown his receiver by at least five yards, he might have a case.
Bellichick and his Pats have been cheating for years. What goes round comes around and the chickens have come home to roost.
When they played the Saints earlier this year, in the last 2 minutes of the game, the refs gave the Pats an extra time out and didn’t call an obvious holding call against their defense. They won by 3 points in the last few seconds of the game.
Let’s not lose sight of the fact that even if the call was made, NE had only one play to score and a 50/50 chance of losing anyway.