Hey! give Fisher some credit. This is the Patriots and there is a lot of animosity toward this team and especially this coach because of the success, because BB gets so many nods as 'best coach'. And as usually is the case, some/many of the dip$hi+$ on TV won't speak the truth. Instead they will speak to propagate their self serving axe grinding. Anyone stating this was not clearly PI is either ignorant of the rules, is that overly emotional type who can't speak from the standpoint of logic, or Rivera-Panthers-Panther fans (who are completely exempted from being drerided for their opinion....it is understandable for them to see their own side.....just as most here would have seen it).
Examples of @$$-wiped-ness, I heard a guy on ESPN today actually say the words *two borderline last second calls going against the Patriots. Ironic for a team that was guilty of Spygate*. Another who actually said the words *the ball was going to be intercepted, that makes it not PI*. Another who said *it was borderline that could go either way, you don't call those*. Even better, NFL official claiming the contact and Int happened simultaneous (that was, imho, not emotion/dip$#!tism but an outright contrived lie). Fisher, instead of playing one of these many cement heads with their axe grinding spoke the truth. I give him credit for that when it is so easy and probably popular thing to do to tap into the animosity bandwagon.
For me, if the ref had not thrown a flag, I would have thought nothing of it. I would have written it off as "Refs don't like to call PI or other judgment call penalties on the last play of the game". You see it a lot, Patriots and others have benefited from the refs 'letting 'them play' on the last, game deciding play. Yet the fact that they picked it up? It was irritating as that PI actually had elements of everything that makes PI, but I still see an argument that calls like this don't get called on that last play of the game type situations. What pisses me off is that this very common belief of 'no call on the last play of the game' was NOT applied a few weeks ago. Where the F! were these S#!+bird refs in that game getting together to pick the flag up because of the 'don't effect the outcome of the game on the last play' (and on one of the silliest calls to boot). That is what irks me.
