Thread: NFL/refs admit they screwed Favre/Vikings

http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/01/27/pereira-talks-about-controversial-calls-in-saints-vikings-overtime/

WOW is all I can say. Vikings were robbed! Can't believe this happened, what a bunch of a**holes!

Really hope these refs get fired but I highly doubt it.

Blah blah blah

So the only questionable call they have was not throwing the flag on the high/low hit? BS. Anyone that looked at the replay knows meachams catch wasnt a catch and Thomas never had control of the ball for first down. Throw the dam replay out of the game. Refs are too stupid to use it.

There were questionable calls, but once again let's point out that we didn't lose the game because of questionable calls.

We lost the game because we turned the ball over 5 times.

Sorry CC, Meacham's catch was good, and Thomas had control and forward progress on the first down. Just because the ball was moved by a helmut, he never lost control.

They admitted they missed a penalty. They did. They also gave us gifts to keep a drive or two alive for us, eh?

Intellectual honesty is hard, CC, but you should try it.

How about we just play better so these don't matter? Save your incessant babbling for the 12 man, and two fumbles in the red zone. More then enough points there to make these stupid little arguments moot.

NodakPaul wrote:

There were questionable calls, but once again let's point out that we didn't lose the game because of questionable calls.

We lost the game because we turned the ball over 5 times.

+1

NodakPaul wrote:

There were questionable calls, but once again let's point out that we didn't lose the game because of questionable calls.

We lost the game because we turned the ball over 5 times.

I'm not going to argue as to why we lost the game. We lost it with turnovers. The calling didn't help, but we shouldn't have been in a situation where it mattered.

That said, there were a lot of questionable calls this year for all the teams out there. I can't think of a single game I personally watched this year, regardless of who was playing, that didn't have a handful of calls that raised my eyebrows.

The referees have the power to completely change games with their calls and I don't think I have faith in this particular set of referees any longer.

Perhaps instead of focusing on our particular team, our time might be better spent urging the NFL to better train and pay (moving from part time to full time) referees. With all that money the NFL rakes in every year, I would think ensuring your referees weren't incompetent boobs would be a good investment.

Games like this one tend to lose fans/viewers and there were too many fans out there this year with reasonable gripes.

U right Nodak, we score on those red zone possesssions and keep those other drives alive, we would have been kneeling down in the 4th.But since guys dont know how to hold on to the ball , that allowed all those bs calls, 12 man, all come into play.

It was obvious to me the better team didnt win the game.

It was also obvious the more disciplined team won the game.

Five turnovers. ENOUGH SAID!

Flidais wrote:

NodakPaul wrote:

There were questionable calls, but once again let's point out that we didn't lose the game because of questionable calls.

We lost the game because we turned the ball over 5 times.

I'm not going to argue as to why we lost the game. We lost it with turnovers. The calling didn't help, but we shouldn't have been in a situation where it mattered.

That said, there were a lot of questionable calls this year for all the teams out there. I can't think of a single game I personally watched this year, regardless of who was playing, that didn't have a handful of calls that raised my eyebrows.

The referees have the power to completely change games with their calls and I don't think I have faith in this particular set of referees any longer.

Perhaps instead of focusing on our particular team, our time might be better spent urging the NFL to better train and pay (moving from part time to full time) referees. With all that money the NFL rakes in every year, I would think ensuring your referees weren't incompetent boobs would be a good investment.

Games like this one tend to lose fans/viewers and there were too many fans out there this year with reasonable gripes.

No disagreement here. I have been a proponent of full time refs for a long time now.