>>There is another petition for a re-match of the game on 27-Jan-2019. <<
Now THAT is funny!!!
If your whole game depends on one play (much less a call) then you don’t deserve to win.
Exactly. If the whole game was analyzed I’m sure you could find a hundred penalties that weren’t called. It all evens out.
BS.....Critical pivot points exist in every close game.....
This was blatant and inexcusable and I’m not a Saints fan....far from it...
Poor officiating, or worse, false officiating, is inexcusable.....
I’ll go further, someones private bank account was just enriched....Follow the money....
Do you know how many football games turn on one play?
So the other team does?
“If your whole game depends on one play (much less a call) then you don’t deserve to win.”
That’s not the point.
“If your whole game depends on one play (much less a call) then you don’t deserve to win.”
I beg to differ. If two teams have relative parity, an egregious call — or non-call — by the officials can very well determine the outcome of a game. And THAT was an egregious non-call.
Actually, that was the most glaring because of the time in the game it took place. There were at least seven other no-calls during the game that in a normal game would have led to personal fouls and/or ejections. Most, but not all, would have hurt the Rams. It was a game where head slaps to the QB well after the ball was released were OK even with an official looking right at the play.
Amen to that. Delighted that the Saints lost that game in their home stadium. Too much fan noise. Same with Seattle. I hate both teams and their venues. If the NFL wanted to do something right, it would find ways to tone down the acoustics in every NFL stadium so that the visiting teams could at least hear each other on their offensive plays. I will always equate the New Orleans stadium to Hurricane Katrina and the abortion of a local government’s handling of the crisis and blaming GW Bush for local greed, incompetence and cowardice.
Tell that to Armando Galarraga, who lost a perfect game back in 2010 years ago because the 1st base umpire blew a call just as obvious as this one with 2 outs in the 9th. Too bad they didn't have replay then, or it would have taken about 5 seconds to reverse the call.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Isn't that how the Patriots won, too?
Don't all "sudden death" or "30 seconds left" wins depend on one play for the winner?
-PJ
By that logic, neither team deserves to win.