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

[OmerV]

This is not about proof, but appearances. You are not awarding the game to New Orleans. No one is losing anything. In fact, I am guessing the Rams would agree. You are simply making use of a safety net to avert the possibility of impropriety.

You can't get caught up in worrying about "appearances" with every wrong or missed call in every game outside of doing whatever is possible to improve officiating. To do that would open a can of worms, and actually create a worse appearance with the league stepping in so often, plus it would be a bigger PR mess when relief is denied on some and given on others.

Think of these things ... first, how would you decide which games and bad calls reach the level of requiring action by the league, and second, if you are going to replay portions of games, picking up from the point of the bad call, how would you fit that in. It's not like baseball where you can make up portions of a game with a double header. There is only a week between games.

 

[kskboys]

The game cannot, will not, and should not be overturned. That's silly.

IMO, what needs to happen is that the NFL needs to get a clue and start realizing that even the fans in denial that this could not happen sooner or later are going to catch a clue and be unable to keep denying what is right in front of their face.

 

[StuckMojo]

They simply start from the point of the non call. Anything that occurred after the non call would be history.

Why not go back to the previous Rams drive when Goff got facemasked?The Rams would have 1st and goal at the 1 1/2 yard line instead of 3rd and goal at the 3.

 

[INCowboysFan]

I'm ju

This is not about fan bases etc. This is about if something is bad enough to step in and correct it. It is the league recognizing that the threat of impropriety it high enough to do something extraordinary. It is in fact why the rule is there. But oh well.

who is the source of this "impropriety? The NFL paid the refs a little extra? Maybe the Rams slid an envelope full of cash under the locker room door? I'm very curious where the proof is. God forbid that the human being assigned as an official for that particular game made a mistake!! We have to immediately assume that he is basically a criminal who will throw games at the whim of the highest bidder.

 

[OmerV]

Why not go back to the previous Rams drive when Goff got facemasked?The Rams would have 1st and goal at the 1 1/2 yard line instead of 3rd and goal at the 3.

Great point. How can you focus on only one bad or missed call and ignore all others that may have impacted the game? It just isn't practical.

 

[Captain43Crash]

waste of a thread. WONT HAPPEN.

It should though. EVERYONE knows that play very likely took a victory away from the Saints. Saints had a 98% chance of winning if that play was called correctly. The NFL let a team get screwed! Goodell actually should have called down to the refs and said make the dam call. By that rule he could have done it.

 

[Captain43Crash]

Great point. How can you focus on only one bad or missed call and ignore all others that may have impacted the game? It just isn't practical.

Everything should be reviewable!!!! Even judgement calls if the evidence is there to change it!!

 

[OmerV]

Everything should be reviewable!!!! Even judgement calls if the evidence is there to change it!!

So, 6-7 hour games? Good look keeping a captive audience.

 

[OmerV]

It should though. EVERYONE knows that play very likely took a victory away from the Saints. Saints had a 98% chance of winning if that play was called correctly. The NFL let a team get screwed! Goodell actually should have called down to the refs and said make the dam call. By that rule he could have done it.

Of course we know that missed call screwed the Saints as things stood at that point in the game, but what about other missed or incorrect calls throughout the game? Without those, what would the % have been then? Would the Rams have had too big a lead for the play causing the controversy have mattered, or would the Saints have already had the game in hand? The game wasn't only about one play, and if you are going to reverse one missed or incorrect call, how can you justify not doing the same with all others?

 

[Red Dragon]

The solution is to simply make penalties challenge-able by coaches. Let them throw a red flag on PI/non-PI, holding, etc.


That's far more practical and doable than this "play the game again" tantrum.

 

[Captain43Crash]

I wouldn't consider a missed penalty an "extraordinary act". It happens on virtually every play. The high visibility and significant timing of the missed PI notwithstanding, it remains not very remarkable.

Why should we allow a team to lose a game because a ref misses a no brainer call. Bottom line the NFL has the technology to fix mistakes like this, they should be fixed!!

 

[cowboyec]

he could.
but the Saints won the coin toss in OT and got the ball first....with a HOF QB...Saints had a chance to rectify the situation....whoops.

 

[CIWhitefish]

If my Dad was female he'd be my Mom. What's done is done. Change the rules going forward if you want but you can't go back no matter how much you want to...cough itwasacatch... cough.

 

[408Cowboy]

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

Don't confuse southern California with the rest of the state. If it were the niners or raiders going it would be a big deal for most.

 

[droopdog7]

Ha ha. This is anywhere near "extraordinarily unfair". It was a bad call. They happen every single game. In fact, some occurred against the rams in this very game.

 

[RustyBourneHorse]

The game cannot, will not, and should not be overturned. That's silly.

IMO, what needs to happen is that the NFL needs to get a clue and start realizing that even the fans in denial that this could not happen sooner or later are going to catch a clue and be unable to keep denying what is right in front of their face.

I EXTREMELY rarely agree with, much less bring up, a point that Stephen A Smith makes. However, he said that PI needs to be reviewable, and it definitely does.

 

[408Cowboy]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/sports/nf...-outcome-in-theory/ar-BBSwk7z?ocid=spartanntp

They need to get rid of that rule. Use it one time for something as simple as a missed call no matter how obvious it was would cause neverending problems. Every fanbase would be clamoring for games to get reset weekly. The rigged conspiracy theories would skyrocket. Not to mention the league would get more video evidence delivered than they got from spygate.

 

[CIWhitefish]

Ha ha. This is anywhere near "extraordinarily unfair". It was a bad call. They happen every single game. In fact, some occurred against the rams in this very game.

Hey when you don't like an outcome you'll go to any efforts to overturn it even if it's not based on reality or even makes sense logically. Seems like lots of that going around these days.

 

[Ranched]

Why should we allow a team to lose a game because a ref misses a no brainer call. Bottom line the NFL has the technology to fix mistakes like this, they should be fixed!!

Preach it Captain!

 

[Doomsday101]

It was a bad call but I have seen worse like the game between Colorado and Missouri in which the refs forgot the down and Colorado ended up getting a 5th down and goal to go and won the game 33 to 31. What I would hate to see is the league changing the outcome of the game after the fact.