No matter who wins, Saints fans will say it's tainted

[Viper652]

You should go to their board. It's insane right now. They want a rematch. There is a petition for it and they already have 25k signatures.

 

[VectorPrime]

Nuts and bolts they got screwed.

 

[PatsDeb]

Hopefully all this controversy and hype wears on their opponents, causing them to doubt the legitimacy of them being in the SB, and they come out and lay an egg because of it. Maybe we can benefit from all of this!

 

[XLIX]

After the game, no one will give a rat's ass what Saints fans think.

In fact, by this time next week the talking points will transition from discussing the CCGs to previewing the Super Bowl.

 

[PatsDeb]

Nuts and bolts they got screwed.

They did, but practically every team gets screwed at least once per game. You have to throw your tablet and move on.

 

[Ring 6]

They did, but practically every team gets screwed at least once per game. You have to throw your tablet and move on.

McVay actually had a great comment.
Something like “one of things I like best about our team is whether we like the call or don’t we just keep playing and focus on football”

 

[Hammer of Thor]

You should go to their board. It's insane right now. They want a rematch. There is a petition for it and they already have 25k signatures.

I hate to say it as I like the Saints more than any non-Patriot team, but they need to rewatch the 2009 NFC championship game versus the Vikings. Vikings fans are saying it’s karmic justice. Not that I like that bad calls affected things, but they’re not wrong about that.

Of course I’m thrilled that the Saints benefitted from that bad call back then. There was no way the Vikings were taking down the forehead. On top of that the thought of Favre winning another Super Bowl sickened me, especially the way he weaseled his way to Minnesota out of spite because of the Packers being sick of his annual soap opera.

 

[luuked]

The fact they are still stuck on that instead of questioning the playcalling on the entire sequence (throw twice ? Really? A ****ing wheel route is the best you can come up with on 3rd down ?) and Bree's INT in OT is laughable.

 

[Brick27]

Haven’t heard much talk from the Saints over this controversial play. If that goes differently, the NFC championship might have been in LA

 

[signbabybrady]

I'll play them after if they want. Bring it.

 

[FortressX]

A Saint fan sayin sumtin means what exactly ?

 

[maust]

They got absolutely hosed.
I am normally the first one to poke a hole in a conspiracy theory but everything about that non call stinks to high heaven, it goes beyond a wtf screwing. By virtue of their assigned roles at least 4 of the 7 officials should have been in position to see that PI, it strains all credibility that they all could have 'missed' it. Particularly the side judge that can clearly be seen looking right at it.

 

[Palm Beach Pats Fan]

It was a bad no-call.

Was it a worse no-call than refusing to call holding on the Tyree catch play, when Richard Seymour was quite literally held around the neck after he blew by the Giants center?

To refresh the bad memory:
As Manning kept moving his feet and staying alive, struggling to break free from the grasp of New England rushers Jarvis Green and Richard Seymour, a desperate O'Hara slid his gloved right hand onto Seymour's throat.

"I said, 'Screw it,'" O'Hara recalled. "I was squeezing his trachea as hard as I could and not letting go." Choked by a 300-pound man, Seymour was temporarily disabled for the split-second that allowed Manning to get away. O'Hara gambled that the officials would miss his WWE move, and miss it they sure as hell did. If they threw a flag there, the Patriots would have ended up 19-0.

Giants Shaun O’Hara confirms he choked Richard Seymour on Eli Manning’s Super Bowl scramble

note both the bear hug on Green and the choke hold on Seymour:

 

[IcyPatriot]

Who Dat *****in'

 

[luuked]

They got absolutely hosed.
I am normally the first one to poke a hole in a conspiracy theory but everything about that non call stinks to high heaven, it goes beyond a wtf screwing. By virtue of their assigned rolls at least 4 of the 7 officials should have been in position to see that PI, it strains all credibility that they all could have 'missed' it. Particularly the side judge that can clearly be seen looking right at it.

Nobody said that the side judge didn't see it. He saw the sequence but for whatever reason didn't consider this PI at this point of the game. Now that is an absolute joke of a judgement but nobody who was supposed to have a look at that area said they looked somewhere else.

Vinovich who people started to crucify was responsible for a completely different matchup and only turned his head towards the end of the entire sequence to where the ball was going.

You can't just assume that everyone in the crew will be able to see it happen because everyone has their own job to do and matchup to pay attention to.

 

[fourhour]

I'm actually a bit concerned about how this whole mess may effect the calls in the Superbowl.

 

[luuked]

I'm actually a bit concerned about how this whole mess may effect the calls in the Superbowl.

Can it get worse than last year ? When they just changed the catching rules before the game ?

 

[maust]

You can't just assume that everyone in the crew will be able to see it happen because everyone has their own job to do and matchup to pay attention to.

Hence "4 of the 7" should have been in position. The side judge, back judge and field judge should have been in position to see it and just looking down the sideline the line judge would have had a view of it as well

 

[Sicilian]

I'm with them! They deserve a rematch! In fact, start the game over from scratch and play it this weekend. Might be tricky logistics getting all the players back in house, so better make it as late a game as possible, maybe even the first ever Monday night game in playoff history. What's that? This will give the Pats a physical advantage over the winner? Why, I'm certain I have no idea what you're talking about! I'm thinking about JUSTICE here, how DARE you!?

 

[Joker]

THINK! Since 2006 there has been NONSTOP controversy every single season. Raging anger from fanbases from coast to coast over decisions made by this league.

WHAT is the one constant in this maelstrom of controversy?

GUHHHHHHHH…Deflategate. Just seeing it mentioned here probably makes you want to climb into a whirlpool of boiling acid, so I’ll keep this brief: There was no clear evidence that Tom Brady deflated balls prior to the 2015 AFC title game, and there was no clear evidence that the balls he used were deflated enough to give him a real advantage. None of that, however, prevented Goodell from picking the smallest possible fight with the league’s biggest possible star and then putting on his novelty-sized Inspector Javert hat and pursuing it all the way to the outer ends of the legal universe.

Think about the core mentality of someone who does this—someone who runs a dopey sports league but fancies himself Minister of Justice. Now that the scandal is finally over and Brady has served his time in Roger Jail, it’s worth asking: Did anyone benefit from how this scandal was handled? Is the integrity of the game any better protected for it? Did it make viewers happy? Does Brady feel chastened? Does Goodell think his message has been received? I loathe the Patriots, and even I thought this was a colossal waste of time and resources. Imagine the NBA suspending LeBron for a month for exceeding talcum-powder-usage guidelines. It’s like Saran-wrapping your own toilet seat.



Ray Rice
Oh look! Another scandal about which even casual fans have doctorate-level expertise! Isn’t this fun? In fact, you can break down this single ****-up into nearly a dozen smaller ****-ups, like so: Goodell suspended the Ravens running back just two games for knocking out his wife in a casino elevator, which was bad enough, but he also ruled on the matter....

• …BEFORE the entire world saw a videotape of that incident, which was a hundred times worse than it already sounded.
• Goodell based that flimsy punishment on a hearing that included Ray Rice’s wife, Janay, who testified on Rice’s behalf, and had no other women present—no experts on spousal abuse, no female NFL executives. Just the wife of the defendant.
• Then, when the tape broke and the world cried outrage, Goodell increased his punishment for Rice from two games to “indefinite”…
• …even though it turned out he had no authority to do so AND…
• …despite already knowing what was on the tape (because Rice’s lawyer had a copy) AND…
• …despite possibly even having seen that tape prior to his initial summer verdict…
• ...because the tape was sent to NFL headquarters…
• …where it may have sat unopened, possibly because no one at the NFL really wanted to know what was on the tape, as evidenced by the fact that...
• …Goodell’s crack NFL security team never actually formally asked for the tape from the casino…
• …which would’ve been an obvious thing to do, like, the day after it happened.