“Life is not orderly. No matter how we try to make it so, right in the middle of it lose a leg, fall in love, drop a jar of applesauce.” - Natalie Goldberg
LOL, 20 mins ago someone created a FB "Boycott NFL next week" and I quote " After the worst display of referring our generation has ever seen, we the people need to rise up and do something about this atrocity. Next weekend, join me in boycotting the NFL by not watching a single game. Invite everyone you can, the more people we get the more effective it may be. Packer loss, aside these refs have been blowing calls all season for every team. Fuck the NFL until they fix their shit."
It already has 2k+ followers.
I love a revolution. Which will inevitably lose steam Wednesday.
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
Thing is, it's the league that should need the bodyguards. These replacements are under a HUGE amount of pressure that they aren't used to. I almost feel a bit sorry for them.
I feel sorry for them too. Angry people can get to the replacements more easily than they can the league big-wigs, which why I think those poor saps need bodyguards.
"Why would you ruin perfectly good peanuts by adding candy corn? That's like saying hey, I have these awesome nachos, guess I better add some dryer lint." - Nonny
I feel bad for the refs too. To be fair, after watching the replay on YouTube in slow motion a few times with my nose pressed against the screen, it appears Tate's hands closed on the ball about a half second before Jennings, tho Jennings ended with the better grip on it.
Here's the official rule about it: "Rule 8 - Section 3 - Article 1 - Item 5: Simultaneous Catch. If a pass is caught simultaneously by two eligible opponents, and both players retain it, the ball belongs to the passers. It is not a simultaneous catch if a player gains control first and an opponent subsequently gains joint control. If the ball is muffed after simultaneous touching by two such players, all the players of the passing team become eligible to catch the loose ball."
So, since Tate never let go of the ball, even tho Jennings had a better grip, it is technically a TD, I guess.
I watched the replay over 10 times last night after the game and I disagree. Jennings pulled the ball to his chest and that is how it stayed when they went to the ground. That shows that he has possession. When they were laying there, Tate's arm was stuck in there but he doesn't have a grip on the ball really.
I'm a Seahawks fan (and a Packers fan, and even a shareholder, but in a faceoff, always a Seattle fan) but even I will not acknowledge that this was a clean win.
However, there have been bad calls throughout the history of the game. Someone wrote this on my FB feed and it echoes my sentiments:
Dear NFL,
I will be gracious enough to forfeit tonights Seahawks win and take a 1-2 record if you forfeit the results for Super Bowl 40 and crown the Seahawks the world champs of 2005.
For Packers fans, we're sorry you've felt the pain of bad officiating. If I could choose, it would be the Steelers, not the Packers, getting the raw end of tonights officiating. I will not celebrate tonight's win in glory but please believe me when I say we know your pain. Really, we know your pain.
Yeah, but Ash, I'm from Seattle. Gotta justify that shit somehow. Just as others are saying "Packers scored nine that shouldn't have happened because of bad calls." blah blah blah.
As I said on my FB (and I thought here too) it was a win but it certainly wasn't a clean win. Not.at.all. That last call was questionable at the very best (meaning it wasn't questionable at all. It shouldn't have played out that way.)
I'm a Seahawks fan (and a Packers fan, and even a shareholder, but in a faceoff, always a Seattle fan) but even I will not acknowledge that this was a clean win.
However, there have been bad calls throughout the history of the game. Someone wrote this on my FB feed and it echoes my sentiments:
Dear NFL,
I will be gracious enough to forfeit tonights Seahawks win and take a 1-2 record if you forfeit the results for Super Bowl 40 and crown the Seahawks the world champs of 2005.
For Packers fans, we're sorry you've felt the pain of bad officiating. If I could choose, it would be the Steelers, not the Packers, getting the raw end of tonights officiating. I will not celebrate tonight's win in glory but please believe me when I say we know your pain. Really, we know your pain.
I think we can all agree that bad calls happen, but that's not what's going on right now. It's bad calls happening every 5 minutes of a game, it's not a relatively rare mistake. They're constant. Also, during the Pats-Ravens game there were 24 penalties. It KILLS the flow of the game. While I get that there's upset at the insanity that was the call last night, ultimately its made much worse because it has become a constant with the NFL