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The NFL's (and the national sports media's) spin campaign on this is worthy of Xlinton's greatest efforts. What is so hard to understand about no play can be reviewed after the ball is snapped again? So it's the Browns' fans fault that NFL refs are making up rules as the game goes along?

The fans who chucked things on the field were out of hand, and wrong.

Having said that, where's the outrage over the refs' mega-blunders?

Fans in other towns may go home whining after something like Sunday's debacle. Browns fans are different.

What the NFL wants: pay your eighty bucks and sit in the stadium like a zombie while they blast you with ads and lame music. That stuff doesn't fly in Clevetown. Cleveland is the only city that fought for and got their team back.

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Having said that, where's the outrage over the refs' mega-blunders?

Did you even READ the excerpts from the article that I posted?

The buzz (notification of review) happened BEFORE the snap. According to the Director of Officiating, THAT is what the rule calls for -- it is NOT dependent on when the officials blow their whistle.

What is so hard to understand about no play can be reviewed after the ball is snapped again?

Not true. A play cannot be reviewed if no review is called for before the snap. I've watched lots of snaps nullified because a coach tossed their red flag onto the field at the last second. This sounds like the replay booth equivalent of that situation. The refs upstairs called for a review just before the ball was snapped, but not in time for the ref on the field to blow the play dead.

Anyway, I hope we're in agreement the Cleveland fans who threw things are utter scum who made their team look far worse than the refs ever could.