MoseSchrute
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I haven't cared for a long time. Millionaires playing for billionaires in a bunch of cities I don't give a F about.
Bump: NFL terrible officiating
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MoseSchrute
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I think he'll probably be okay.
Actually to me I thought the spin and rotation of the ball changed as the ball went by Edelman's right upper arm/shoulder. I think that is where the ball touched him as it looked like the balls movement changed and the laws of motion havent changed.
Now I have seen a slow motion replay of that and I think the ball misses his arm but I dont know how they overruled the on field call. But this one really didnt matter/
The roughing the Brady call on 3rd and 10 late in the game and Hogan pass that looked to roll out of his hands and onto the turf were the more crucial calls against the Chiefs.
And even after all of this Chiefs and Dee Ford only have themselves to blame for losing this game on the offside that nullified the late interception and how poorly the Chiefs played the fir 20 minutes of the game
I think the Rams have a shot to beat the Patriots (actually started out being favored, didn't they?). Anyway, I would go with the Boston - LA markets into the Super Bowl (just like the most recent World Series) over New Orleans and Kansas City markets.
Fans really dont care about which cities are in the top sports events but rather on the teams that are playing. A lot of Chiefs and Saints fans are not going to watch the super bowl this year after the officiating.
The TV execs worry about which cities are in it but really the Super Bowl is going to have a billion people watching no matter at least through halftime entertainment. Super Bowl is an event. the Men's World Cup final is probably the only more watched event.
Baseball and other sports that play series to pick a champions suffer much more from smaller or bad TV market teams being in the final.
Robowe
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The Patriots are the team everyone loves or hates. The NFL is not sad that the Patriots are in the Super Bowl again.
And, the NFL just returned to LA (and they got 2 teams). Vegas is licking their chops - these are 2 very public teams. The ratings from yesterday show that.
https://deadline.com/2019/01/rams-patriots-nfl-championship-game-ratings-rise-1202538653/
I am no conspiricy theorist, but wow, that missed PI was bad. I just dont think there is anyway that a professional referee, let alone an entire crew, could possibly miss that. No way. I have to believe that was decided before the play that they werent going to throw a flag on anything. I think there is a lot to this that we dont know.
The Big LeHAWKski
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Follow the money.
Boston/major East coast vs Los Angeles/Southern Cali
or
KC (flyover) vs New Orleans (drunk flyover).
Ratings, ratings, ratings.
Major markets on both coasts playing was the only thing the NFL wanted to happen. Not saying it was pre-determined, but if it was close...
Now they can have both will ratings and SuperBowl ad prices way up.
Boston/major East coast vs Los Angeles/Southern Cali
or
KC (flyover) vs New Orleans (drunk flyover).
Ratings, ratings, ratings.
Major markets on both coasts playing was the only thing the NFL wanted to happen. Not saying it was pre-determined, but if it was close...
Now they can have both will ratings and SuperBowl ad prices way up.
ThunderHawk
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The Rams are far more talented than the Saints.
ThunderHawk
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They missed it because from the angle they were viewing it and the speed with which it happened it must have appeared that the ball had passed the receiver when the contact occurred.
They also missed an egregious facemask on Goff that would have given the Rams first and goal at the one yard line earlier in the game.
If you really want to blame anyone, blame that whiny bitch Sean "The Bounty" Payton, who was still bitching to the refs even after his team had the lead and was trying to seal the game. I'm sure that didn't have any effect on the focus and psyche of his players.
Oh, there's also the small matter of Goff being more clutch than Brees when it mattered most. That and Legatron making a 57 yd FG look like an extra point.
And as referenced above, Aaron Donald was held on every single passing play. Every one of them.
They are pretty evenly matched on offense with the Rams maybe having the best advantage in the Off Line but the Rams looked fresher overall on defense. The saints looked like they expended almost all their energy in the first half while the Rams just kept coming once they figured out the crowd noise on offense.
The Chiefs looked like a team with very little good positive post season experience at the start of their Champ game. They looked ill prepared on offense for the jamming tough physical play by the Pats. Really wanted the chiefs to win it but they have had two bad defensive seasons in a row now. Eric Berry has been out much of the last two years but the chiefs really have to sell out to stop the run and that makes their pass defense really vulnerable. And I think one of their really good D Backs from just last year is on the rams now with Talib making them very tough in the secondary.
No they are not, Saints beat them twice this year, well should have if the REFS didn't have the games RIGGED...
The Rams match up better against the Patriots imo, so rigged or not, I'm glad they won.
Knight78
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Look again at the angle from behind the Cheifs players. It doesn't come near his left hand at all, much less his left pointer finger. It appears at other angles to hit either hand, but upon the angle from behind the Cheifs players, it hits nothing.
kicker22
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I miss the way things were before challenges and plays being reviewed. Based off of the games last weekend I simply don't see how the league can justify the use of replay to overturning the muffed punt or determining that the balls that came in contact with the field were legitimate catches and controlled by the receivers, but at the same time control the situations in which replay can and can't be used. I hate the argument that the use of replay needs to be expanded upon, but if it can be used for plays like those that directly impact the outcome of a game why not be able to use it in all instances? The phantom hit on Brady, the PI no call in the Saints game, and so on.
As a Chief's fan who repeatedly saw things go the other way last weekend, I'm not sure what bothers me more; a missed call that can't be reviewed, or plays that get reviewed that still have me baffled as to why they were ruled the way they were. The system definitely needs fixed.
As a Chief's fan who repeatedly saw things go the other way last weekend, I'm not sure what bothers me more; a missed call that can't be reviewed, or plays that get reviewed that still have me baffled as to why they were ruled the way they were. The system definitely needs fixed.
He might be suspended for a year...oh, no, wait that was the Saints coach who was suspended for trying to injure other players with a bounty.That will teach him!
They call Goff's obvious face mask and this non call would have not even happened.
Come on coach and Brees, you had the ball first in overtime, a redemption opportunity, but you gagged. Go home, shut up.
