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And when you say that you have seen a lot of bad calls in your day and have never seen the fans act like this I think that is because there have been calls in the past the might have indirectly(came earlier in the game)led to a different outcome in the game but not actually had as much to do with the outcome of the game as this call.

Without going into long history, I will say, simply: Yes, I was alluding to blown calls which assuredly did cause different outcomes - at least one of which jobbed a team out of a World Series championship, because it should have been the third out of the bottom of the ninth and the fourth win of the series for the team in question, when a first base umpire called a batter safe at first when he was clearly out by a full step. It should have been game, set, and match - but a bad call blocked it.

In my opinion I have never seen a call of this proportion in such a key moment in any game I have ever watched(I know I am not alone on that)and for it to be called in the manner in which they called it was disgraceful.

It wouldn't matter how disgraceful the blown call was or is. It is no excuse for the kind of disgrace Browns fans performed. Period dot period.

Baseball games are not nearly as emotional as football games but if it was a world series game that would be a huge call. But how did the umpires in that game handle the call?? Did they stand around for 10 minutes before saying anything? or call the game over with 48 seconds still left on the clock? or end the game and then after another 20 min send all the players back on the field and then give the ball to the wrong team? In baseball they dont have the instant replay and if they wouldnt have had the instant replay in this football game the call would have never been challenged and Cleveland would have scored on the next play, won the game, and the fans plastic throwing would never have happened.