Great post. Great article. I'm having a big problem with that game, and the number of poor calls against the Pats. I should first say, I have NEVER been one to be very critical of the officiating. I usually disagree with anybody saying any particular game is fixed, or that anybody is biased against a team......UNTIL NOW.
I TIVO'd the game, as I usually do. If anybody else did, take a look at the block in the back that Simmons talks about, on the Addai run. It was blatant. You couldn't miss it.
On the call against the Pats for forcing the Colt player out of bounds on the return. I looked at that play a dozen times. Both players looked like they were welded together. They were linked together, and went out of bounds together. YOU CANNOT tell that one player or the other was the force that made them go out of bounds. It's impossible. But it was called, and on the Patriots player.
On the Moss offensive interference call, he did nothing. He did not touch the other player. He didn't hook with his arm. He didn't at all push off. There was nothing to flag him on. I thought a ref had to make a call on something he saw. That was so incredibly suspicious. It wasn't even like there was something he did that could have been missinterpreted.
The take down of Faulk was blatant too, and out in the open. The guy wrapped his arm around him.
Usually, when there are blown calls, it goes both ways, or there is only one or two. The fact that there were so many, and everytime they showed the replay it looked like the wrong call, and that they were all against the Patriots really makes me want more done. What can be done?
The most penalty yards against the Patriots in their entire history, in one of the biggest regular season games ever? I'm furious, and we didn't even lose.
P.S. - The lame reasoning on the Hobbs penalty made me even hotter. Something rotten happened in that game, and I guarantee nothing will be done about it.
