Because of the two controversial calls last weekend.
http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/NFL-referee-conference-call-officiating-102810
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Yeah big surprise. NOT
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i wish death upon goodell and his zebras.
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Carl Johnson explained the whole replay system and said that once it went to replay, Gene and his crew got it 100% correct. However, he was HL for X number and years and he pretty much said that the HL made a judgment call.
IMO, the HL should have waited a split second before making his call. If he would have, then the out come of what happened could and would have been different.Puka-head likes this. -
**** em and the zebras they rode in on.
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If the players are going to be fined for bad hits etc, fine the refs for blatantly bad calls. Just have to make the fine more than the bribe and bad calls stop immediately.
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fine, maybe not death, but 10-30 years in prison without parole.:lol::lol: -
They did admit the other call was not made correctly (the GB TD call that was overturned), and it seemed like they had no idea how to handle the blown Miami call either since he said the "officials were doing what they were supposed to" in that situation.
Saying that you can't tell who had the ball after the pileup was crap though....it was clear who grabbed the ball before the pileup ever happened. You can tell that the VP they put on camera has no experience speaking in public too....it was like watching a 4th grade poetry recital. He delivered a script....twice...which is probably a good thing. He never said the call was correct; he just said the refs did the right thing.
I have no idea what they plan to do about it during this meeting, but I have a feeling that they will rule in Maimi's favor in this instance. What that means though...who knows? -
Why doesn't the NFL just admit that in a close situation like that the officials should rule it a fumble on the field and then establish possession on the FIELD? That seems so obvious to anyone who watches football and has half a brain. Why don't they admit that in that regard the official didn't do his job correctly?
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A potential Tim Donaghy situation scares the hell out of the NFL, MLB, NHL, NCAA, and any other organization that relies on judgment calls made by officiating crews. -
- He does have at least a small amount of common sense
- He saw the ball pop out EXTREMELY close to the goal line
- He knows like the rest of us that a video is not going to allow us to see where the ball is 100% of the time in a pileup.
Knowing this you can logically conclude that he went against the common sense ruling for a reason. He seized an opportunity to do this knowing he wasn't going to be violating any NFL rules. He's the head official. It doesn't matter if some other official initially threw his arms up in the air. He could run over and say, "Hey, we're going to rule a fumble, find out who has the ball." He went out of his way to make sure everything would have to be determined by video. I know he was pulling for the Steelers. The NFL can try to ignore these things but they are not going to go away. When they allow this to happen with no consequence whatsoever they're just creating an atmosphere more conducive to a Donaghy type incident. -
You’ll want to read the first answer here in full. Some interesting trivia in there, including a ghost from 2009.steveincolorado likes this. -
The problem is that the ruling of touchdown was reaffirmed—“the ruling on the field is a touchdown”— and so after the ruling was overturned, everything that happened afterward also had to be examined by video evidence. Because Steratore didn’t see clear evidence that we recovered the fumble, he had to give the ball back to the Steelers.
You can blame CBS for screwing us over on that one, because the replay booth gets the same camera angles we do on TV. The Associated Press had a nice still photo of two Dolphins defenders landing on the ball, Alama-Francis and Randy Starks IIRC, with Rapistberger’s hand nowhere near the ball like he later lied about in postgame interviews. (Same with Hines Ward, he lied too.) But CBS’ angles were different.
Basically, it was a perfect storm of BS. -
Story of our lives. -