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Petition urges NFL to fire officiating crew after blown call in NFC Championship game
FoxNews ^ | 21-Jan-2019 | By Ryan Gaydos

Posted on 01/21/2019 3:24:53 PM PST by topher

The NFL is being urged to fire the crew who officiated the NFC Championship game between the Los Angeles Rams and New Orleans Saints over a blown call in the fourth quarter of the matchup.

A petition launched after the Rams defeated the Saints in overtime, 26-23, has asked the league to fire official Bill Vinovich and the rest of the officials who were in charge Sunday afternoon. The officials came under fire after missing a clear pass interference penalty late in the fourth quarter.

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To: freedumb2003

Sean Payton has no class and is a crybaby. He knew, and approved, the Saints Defensive effort to take Brett Farve out of NFC Championship game in 2009 with late hits and said nothing.

Screw the Saints. Screw Sean Payton. I am glad for the excruciating nature of the losses the last 2 years. I hope same thing happens next year.


81 posted on 01/21/2019 4:39:13 PM PST by LeonardFMason
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To: jjotto

He says he didn’t see it, but from what I see he fails to mention who did/should have seen it.

Looking but I don’t see anything. Am I looking in all the wrong places?


82 posted on 01/21/2019 4:39:38 PM PST by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: topher

They are not blowing calls.

They want to make the NFL more marketable.

Notice also that LA and Boston WIN.

blue coast politics is absolutely how NFL and ESPN roll.


83 posted on 01/21/2019 4:40:29 PM PST by lonestar67 (America is exceptional)
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To: topher
Oh good grief. It was a blown (missed) call but life goes on. I'm sure there were several missed calls in that game.

This is a fine example of what is wrong with our country. Sore losers can't accept results and deal with it.

84 posted on 01/21/2019 4:44:35 PM PST by Shortstop7
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To: MichaelCorleone

http://www.footballzebras.com/2017/01/vinovich-and-mcaulay-are-conference-championship-referees/


85 posted on 01/21/2019 4:45:26 PM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: freedumb2003
If your whole game depends on one play (much less a call) then you don’t deserve to win.

If not for that blown call, the Rams wouldn't have won. So your point, made to dismiss the Saints complaint, applies mostly to the Rams who needed that play to win.

86 posted on 01/21/2019 4:49:10 PM PST by pepsi_junkie (Often wrong, but never in doubt!)
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To: MrEdd

Same for peewee league coaches? Jr. High? High school? College? Disdain for professional coaches without disdain for all others is inconsistent.


87 posted on 01/21/2019 4:50:13 PM PST by ImaGraftedBranch (The love of many has grown cold. Come, Lord Jesus.)
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To: chris37
Almost all of them and every one of them.

So you're saying that the Lions could have made it into the playoffs and possibly the league championship had it not been for that one play in each of their games?......LOL!

88 posted on 01/21/2019 4:50:51 PM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

Yeah.

All the games they lost turned on one play, and they coulda won them, but they didn’t because instead they lost.

There is always a play where one team goes the right way, and the other team goes the wrong way, and it goes on from there, just like the other day.


89 posted on 01/21/2019 4:58:22 PM PST by chris37 (No wall? No vote.)
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To: topher

Get over it, it’s all fake. The only ones happy the sports bettors, LA and the NFL refs pension and benefit bank accounts.


90 posted on 01/21/2019 5:34:00 PM PST by RetiredTexasVet (Start using cash and checks or the elite class and bankers will make "cashless" the norm.)
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To: topher

I watched it a few more times today in real-time. It looks like contact when the ball arrives. Slow motion makes the hit look like 5 hours earlier. Last year it was a miracle, this year it was a mugging. Can’t wait to see what happens next year...


91 posted on 01/21/2019 5:34:32 PM PST by Dixie Yooper (Ephesians 6:11)
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To: topher

Make pass interference calls and non-calls reviewable. They can result in huge amounts of yardage and, like yesterday, they can decide a game. They can’t be left to a referee’s mistake.


92 posted on 01/21/2019 5:38:54 PM PST by AnotherUnixGeek
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To: freedumb2003

Jeez Man - this is a pro football play-off game. This assumes that both teams are equally matched. Every play and point matters. So many close game this late and post season.
Baseball games and series are won by 1 run. Golf matches by 1 stroke. Soccer, hockey - so many matches won and lost by one point. Penalties matter and in this case a wrong/missed call by PRO officials changed the outcome.
If the Rams defensive player had not PENALIZED the Saints receiver then what would have been the outcome?


93 posted on 01/21/2019 5:58:05 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
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To: IrishBrigade

“well, we could all go into the corner and wring our hands, if that would make you happy...”

Yeah, you could do that, or alternatively, you could stop using FR for your “sports page!” The only articles worthy of posting on FR have to deal with the machinations of the $hit people who run “professional sports” coupled with the “overpaid animals” who work for them as they disrespect our country. It tells me a lot about you that you would make such a comment, but given that you seem to be “wedded to sports,” I guess I should have expected it. The old adage: “All that is needed for evil to triumph is for good men to do nothing” certainly applies here, doesn’t it! So you go right ahead sitting in front of your “Big Screen,” hoovering beer and ballpark franks, until you wake up one day and realize that while you’ve been indulging yourself in this useless nonsense, your personal freedom has been taken from you!
BTW my wife is Irish. Her family were at the outset, dirt poor farmers, but her father had an idea about a business that now brings in $500,000,000. per year! His only regret was playing HS football and getting his back f*cked up! What have you done with your life?


95 posted on 01/21/2019 6:07:31 PM PST by vette6387 (WQew)
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To: freedumb2003
If your whole game depends on one play (much less a call) then you don’t deserve to win.

If one team lost based on one play, then the other team won based on one play. So neither team deserved to win, right? So does that just give the Patriots a walk-over in the Super Bowl? Maybe the Super Bowl should be just cancelled since the Patriots don't win if the Chiefs' lineman doesn't line up off-side with 54 seconds left. Without that call, the interception of Brady stands and the Chiefs run out the clock.

96 posted on 01/21/2019 6:12:11 PM PST by CommerceComet (Hillary: A unique blend of arrogance, incompetence, and corruption.)
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To: bert

I agree. After watching it many times, it was so bang-bang, I’d have a hard time to too judgmental. Even if the pass was completed, the Saints would have still been short of getting a first down.

The receiver didn’t seem to be claiming it was a penalty. He pretty much hopped up and went back to his bench area.

I didn’t see the game, so I looked for another play because surely there shouldn’t be this much outrage over THIS call. If the alleged penalty was for face guarding, there might be a complaint.

After watching it several times, the DB May have gotten there a split second early, but it looks like a reasonable no-call to me.


97 posted on 01/21/2019 6:14:48 PM PST by WASCWatch
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To: topher

It’s really tragic for the Saints. However I see it all as part of the total NFL product. They go out of their way to insult me. A fixed game seems like business as usual.

I used to think how special the Super Bowl was. It was something most Americans focused on at the same time.


98 posted on 01/21/2019 7:00:30 PM PST by mom.mom (...our flag was still there.)
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To: dfwgator
I once heard - but cannot corroborate - that John Madden once said:

Don't forget, there are three teams on the field of play every Sunday.

99 posted on 01/21/2019 7:09:35 PM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: topher

There was nothing but pass interference this whole year. The non calls were legion.


100 posted on 01/21/2019 7:27:04 PM PST by Nuc 1.1 (Nuc 1 Liberals aren't Patriots. Remember 1789!)
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