no rooting interest but sick to my stomach that the league can let this happen.

 

can you imagine the possibility of playoff games being decided by the refs?

I feel bad for people that football is their favorite sport. What a disgrace (and this is coming from a Bears fan).

I feel bad for people that football is their favorite sport. What a disgrace (and this is coming from a Bears fan).

 

Yep. Hard to even feel great about the Bears getting up a game on the Packers after that.

Yep. Hard to even feel great about the Bears getting up a game on the Packers after that.

 

Screw that, I feel perfectly fine about the Bears being a game up.

 

Especially because this could be the end of replacement refs.

bogus roughing the passer call

 

bogus pass interference against Shields

 

bogus final play.

 

 

 

I think Pete Carroll is going to just ref the last play.

Yep. Hard to even feel great about the Bears getting up a game on the Packers after that.

 

for me, it makes the win even more sweet.

Mike Scioscia would have protested this game.

If I was the Packers coach Id be suspended for the rest of the year, if not more.

I really dont think the league gives a s*** anymore. I wish some players would just come out and give meaningless threats about going on strike. They will get fined but they need to embarrass the league on this.

I couldn't even imagine what would happen if Hawk was the Packers announcer.

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/nfl/story/_...-regular-season

 

• The NFL will pay the head referee $3,500 per regular-season game. The six others on the field will make $3,000 per game.

 

wow. penny wise pound foolish.

I really dont think the league gives a s*** anymore. I wish some players would just come out and give meaningless threats about going on strike. They will get fined but they need to embarrass the league on this.

 

Its just using the WWE method. Controversy sells, more people will be talking NFL tomorrow and tuning in next week to see if "Something crazy with refs happens again."

 

 

I couldn't even imagine what would happen if Hawk was the Packers announcer.

 

LOL

Screw that, I feel perfectly fine about the Bears being a game up.

 

Especially because this could be the end of replacement refs.

 

I'm happy the Bears are game up on the Packers and I won't care at the end of the year if that gives us a playoff spot but I hate seeing the game turned into a joke the way that was.

In primetime this week the NFL had probably the two worst referee'd games I've ever seen watching pro sports. Even the NBA fixes were better.

 

I thought it would take a lot more to meaninfully dent the NFL's credibility, but this is worse than the players' strike a year and a half ago. These games are just awful.

I couldn't even imagine what would happen if Hawk was the Packers announcer.

 

he would be out on the field

The reffing sucked, but that game was hilariously entertaining.

 

Now obviously as soon as it impacts the Bears Im not going to be laughing.

The reffing sucked, but that game was hilariously entertaining.

 

Now obviously as soon as it impacts the Bears Im not going to be laughing.

 

^^^

This is the best way for the replacement refs s*** to come to a head

I hate that instant replay is "indisputable evidence" to overturn.

 

We're at the point with technology where the looks you get on replay, 99% of the time are better than what an official saw at game speed, from sometimes a s***ty angle. Unless you literally can't see anything, you should be able to review it and it shouldn't matter what the call on the field was. We've all seen calls where we're 90% sure of what happened but since it was ruled X on the field, it stays as X.

 

That play, on replay, is an interception. But since it was ruled TD on the field, it stands. It's just stupid. I really wish they'd change the standard of proof for replay. There's no reason not to at this point.

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wow, look at Gruden. haha, he looks like he wants to pop a gasket in the booth.

I hate that instant replay is "indisputable evidence."

 

We're at the point with technology where the looks you get on replay, 99% of the time are better than what an official saw at game speed, from sometimes a s***ty angle. Unless you literally can't see anything, you should be able to review it and it shouldn't matter what the call on the field was. We've all seen calls where we're 90% sure of what happened but since it was ruled X on the field, it stays as X.

 

That play, on replay, is an interception. But since it was ruled TD on the field, it stands. It's just stupid. I really wish they'd change the standard of proof for replay. There's no reason not to at this point.

 

I don't think that was an indisputable evidence issue. It sounds like if the refs rule there is simultaneous possession it is not reviewable even though there was clearly no simultaneous possession on that play.

lost in all this is the GB not trying to knock the ball down. Knock it down and the game is over. Why go for the INT there?

I don't think that was an indisputable evidence issue. It sounds like if the refs rule there is simultaneous possession it is not reviewable even though there was clearly no simultaneous possession on that play.

I was talking in general, but yeah. If that's the rule, that it's not reviewable...that's just stupid to begin with. Live speed, I can't blame the officials for not seeing that clearly. It was a clusterf***. This is why we have replay, to fix something relatively easy like this.