"That's totally inappropriate. It's lewd, lascivious, salacious, outrageous!"
Posted on 12/04/2007 6:27:40 PM PST by BOBWADE
BALTIMORE -- The NFL is looking into an accusation made by Baltimore Ravens cornerback Samari Rolle that an official called him a "boy" during Monday night's 27-24 loss to New England.
"The refs called me a boy. No. 110 called me a boy," Rolle said in the locker room after the game. "I will be calling my agent in the morning and sending my complaint. I have a wife and three kids. Don't call me a boy. Don't call me a boy on the field during a game because I said, 'You've never played football before.' "
NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said Tuesday the league is looking in to the situation.
No. 110 is head linesman Phil McKinnely, a former player for three NFL teams during the 1970s and '80s. McKinnely, who played collegiately at UCLA, is black, as is Rolle.
The Ravens were demonstrative after the game about the officiating, especially on the final drive that led to Tom Brady's pass to Jabar Gaffney for the winning touchdown with 44 seconds left. After the touchdown, set up by a fourth-down defensive holding call on Jamaine Winborne, linebacker Bart Scott was penalized 15 yards for complaining and another 15 yards for throwing the official's flag.
"In a game of this magnitude, you don't make that kind of call," Rolle said. "Let the players decide the outcome of the game. You can crown them champions now. I'm not taking anything away from them. They are a great team. They're not asking the refs to help them, but it's just an empty feeling."
ESPN.com's Mike Sando and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
I still do not know why the Pats did not squib the last kickoff to run some time off the clock.
Not only was Watson held, but another Raven was holding Gaffney back by his jersey on the same play.
Only in hindsight, and with the assumption that the play would have gone exactly the same without whistles pre-empting it. The timeout was called well before the play...it just took the officials until right as the play started to blow the whistle.
Its not just Rolle, other players on other teams are talking about what the refs are saying to them on the field.
Whitworth with the Bengals claims an official told him he was ‘lousy.
Of course, since he’s on the Bengals, there is a modicrum of truth found there....
I wonder if the Patriots considered an on-side kick for that last kickoff. To go the required ten yards, the ball would have needed to go to the Raven 25-yd line. That’s only five yards away from where the Ravens would get the ball if the kicker sent it out of the endzone.
Even if the Pats lost the scramble for the ball, some time would have run off the clock, and the ball would have been at about the 20-yd line anyway.
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