The commisioner can overturn the result of a game if there is an eggregious enough error

[MarcusRock]

Tells you how much fun a state is when their football team going to the Super Bowl isn’t a big event for them

Or maybe they just have a broader sense of what constitutes an enjoyable event. Some fanatics around here could use a little broadening so that a missed holding call against us isn't automatically the genesis of the New World Order to them.

 

[kskboys]

I think what's happening is that the refs are making calls using a certain set of guidelines. So, they're having to make way too many judgment calls, as opposed to simply calling it as they see it.

For example, instead of simply calling PI if you see it, they are being asked to consider the effect on the outcome before making any call. NFL wants close, down to the wire games. They want comebacks and last second endings. That PI call makes for a boring ending, therefore, don't make the call.

Do I believe this? Man, I just don't know. Something is foul, of that there is no doubt. How in the world could a ref not see a player get raped right in front of his face? This wasn't some borderline call either, this was about as blantant as picking your nose while giving a speech at the podium. Someone was digging for gold on this one!!!

 

[SackMaster]

While I would be tickled pink if this was to happen, the NFL is not about to do that the the market they DESPERATELY want to be engaged in NFL Football.

The conspiracy theorist in me believes that the Refs got a big bonus for helping the LOS ANGELES Rams to get to the Super Bowl. Just kidding / half kidding.

 

[MarcusRock]

People will forget, just like most have already forgotten how NE was placed in the super bowl last year.

Of course they will forget. That's just human nature. People just need to vent, rant, swear they'll boycott, etc. and then will find themselves right back where they swore they'd never be again. If you're the powers that be, you don't sweat it and just wait it out. How many around here have been swearing up and down that they're going to leave the NFL for soccer for years or that the NFL is unwatchable right after they finished watching it and will again. In fact, controversy is good because it piques the interest of the casual fan to maybe get hooked.

 

[kskboys]

Of course they will forget. That's just human nature. People just need to vent, rant, swear they'll boycott, etc. and then will find themselves right back where they swore they'd never be again. If you're the powers that be, you don't sweat it and just wait it out. How many around here have been swearing up and down that they're going to leave the NFL for soccer for years or that the NFL is unwatchable right after they finished watching it and will again. In fact, controversy is good because it piques the interest of the casual fan to maybe get hooked.

Yup. This is what me n my friends would label an inconvenient truth.

 

[Roadtrip635]

 

[cowboyblue22]

the game wont be changed the league got what they wanted the rams is the second biggest market In the country theywant that team to win and besuccessful for the money and marketing

 

[BrassCowboy]

If you think there's a S-storm over the outcome of the games right now, wait until Goodell invokes commissioner powers to overturn a game already decided on the field.

exactly, and this is why it won't happen nor should it

 

[Willfreedom909]

Or maybe they just have a broader sense of what constitutes an enjoyable event. Some fanatics around here could use a little broadening so that a missed holding call against us isn't automatically the genesis of the New World Order to them.

 

[MarcusRock]

If a lineup of refs like that had happened for our game, oh the weeks of entertainment that would have ensued around here, lol.

 

[glimmerman]

Won’t happen but would be interesting. It would have to likely be on the last play of the game in the final second and would have to be so obvious that it cost a team the game that there is no excuse. The ref would have to get on the mic and say I am or am not calling this flag because I have been paid off. Then maybe.

 

[Birdgang]

The "Commie ish " already inserts himself enough as do the refs. If he does it once, he will have to do it again and again. Soon turns into a snowball of crap out of control. How would you feel if you had to replay the Eagles game that really was what won the division because of some BS calls? Also nature of sport you cant say all the players will be healthy for the rematch, what happens if a star player goes down? Maybe even career ending injury ?

Pandora's box should stay shut. It sucks when calls are missed. But it happens as we are humans ... its easy to see through slow motion, 100 camera angles and not having to have a split second to decide . Hindsight always 50/50

 

[Roadtrip635]

If a lineup of refs like that had happened for our game, oh the weeks of entertainment that would have ensued around here, lol.

We had a similar type lineup on the Zeke investigation Team.

 

[Hoofbite]

It’s inconceivable that it would happen, but it’s sort of amazing that the rulebook even allows for this type of an approach.

Actually, it's the furthest thing from amazing, IMO.

 

[ctrous25]

Can he turn over the 2016 divisional game against GB. I mean there was many calls that screwed us but I’ll stick to the last one when David Irving was getting tackled in pursuit of Rodgers

 

[OmerV]

How does a what happened qualify as “... aclub action, non-participant interference, or calamity....”?

It was a bad call, not cheating, not players being bribed, not a natural disaster, or any other influence outside the scope of what happens in the natural course of all NFL games.

On top of that, to declare NO the winner would (1) require the assumption that a goal line stands by the Rams was impossible, and (2) open up a flood of complaints past, present and future that the league doesn’t do the same with all bad calls.

 

[bb721]

And baseball games are decided by umpires, so what. That’s how sports work.

 

[boysfanperiod]

Not going to happen. More trouble than it's worth (i.e., flying Rams back, new refs, can't reenact the actual in game feel, fans there or empty stadium, etc.).

 

[boysfanperiod]

How does a what happened qualify as “... aclub action, non-participant interference, or calamity....”?

It was a bad call, not cheating, not players being bribed, not a natural disaster, or any other influence outside the scope of what happens in the natural course of all NFL games.

On top of that, to declare NO the winner would (1) require the assumption that a goal line stands by the Rams was impossible, and (2) open up a flood of complaints past, present and future that the league doesn’t do the same with all bad calls.

There was a streaker so it could qualify ad "non-participant interference" just not on that play.

 

[InTheZone]

Partial stadium collapse, full stadium collapse, zombies, a bomb, herd of cattle stampede, disgruntled ref hitting the QB in the helmet with a blackjack and sending him into concussion protocol. Those would all be "extra"ordinary. A missed PI call is ordinary. The fact that it was more obviously missed and indisputable doesn't make it extraordinary - or even more damaging than a missed penalty at another point in the game.

LOL

What if the Saints had 1st and goal and were taking a knee. On 4th down they attempt a FG and the defender rushes offsides, leaps on top of every lineman, dives at the holder, steals the ball and runs with it for a TD. Game over, who cares how many penalties he committed or whether or not it was clear as day?