All who watch this Super Bowl will destroy what football should be

phildadon86

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They didn't though. What they admitted was that player athleticism had outpaced the rule. That and the fact that fans don't read and explanations as to why it wasn't a catch proved futile against grunts of "it looked like a catch."
https://www.nbcsports.com/washingto...now-says-cowboys-dez-bryant-did-fact-catch-it

Take a gander
 

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I know the title is provocative, but I'm not leading with that to annoy others, just for the fun of it.

I'm serious when I say that Goodell needs to hear the message loud and clear, the debacle that the NFL has become will not be tolerated. Officials who watch NFL receivers get blasted, helmet to helmet, before the ball arrives, and then do nothing about it, have revealed a great deal.

They've revealed they are acting maliciously toward a team in the playoffs.
They have been given instructions to prohibit one team from winning.
Incompetence will no longer cloak these truths.

Knowing that, (there is no dispute or controversy) will you actually promote the destruction of the NFL by watching?

I know that Super Bowl parties are a tradition, and they are a great opportunity for socializing, but the time to act is now. Football will be unwatchable if the public ignores the game fixing that went on. I've been invited to a Super Bowl party already, but I've turned it down. I know its not an easy thing to do.

Will you seriously consider making other plans? Fishing, a get together with friends, doing anything else?

The NFL must get this message. WHAT FOOTBALL HAS BECOME IS UNACCEPTABLE!!
The NFL officiating sucks but these “banning the SB threads are ridiculous”. Answer me this, if the Cowboys were the Rams and won the Saints game in similar fashion would you still be making this thread?

No, you wouldn’t nor would anyone who agrees with you. It’s dumb and hypocritical. The Cowboys have won and lost games (mainly won this season) due to poor officiating and no one was making threads about not watching anymore NFL games. IMOF, there was a several page thread mocking Saints fans for complaining about the officiating in the game we won but now we should put our foot down? Please.
 

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Looking forward to watching the Super Bowl. Should be a good game. Bad calls are a part of football and likely always will be, even with instant replay.
 

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I'm so tired of hearing saints fans whining. They STILL took the lead with two minutes left.

They COULDNT stop the Rams from tying the game.

They got the ball FIRST in OT.

ALL OF THE ABOVE AND THEY STILL couldn't win the game.

And quit pretending that Sean Payton would have run out the clock had they gotten that flag. He could have run out the clock before the non PI call. But he didn't. He threw it 3 straight times for incompletions.

Why? Because the man is an idiot that's why. Here's a tip.....if you want to win games.... Leave Drew Bree's in the game on 3rd downs instead of putting a running quarterback in there instead. The whole world knows you're running when the put him in there (Hill). Drew freaking Brees......... And you take him out on 3rd downs. Payton is an idiot.

You do realize there wouldn't have been an overtime if that pass interference were called, right?
You also realize that there would have been no final Rams drive, right?

The Saints would have had 3 plays to run the clock out with a fresh set of downs, despite Sean Payton's previous play calls for a pass. All they had to do was kick the final field goal with less than 5 seconds remaining, and game over, win.

The refs took a 99% win scenario to a "Rams get a chance they shouldn't have" scenario.
 

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The NFL officiating sucks but these “banning the SB threads are ridiculous”. Answer me this, if the Cowboys were the Rams and won the Saints game in similar fashion would you still be making this thread?

No, you wouldn’t nor would anyone who agrees with you. It’s dumb and hypocritical. The Cowboys have won and lost games (mainly won this season) due to poor officiating and no one was making threads about not watching anymore NFL games. IMOF, there was a several page thread mocking Saints fans for complaining about the officiating in the game we won but now we should put our foot down? Please.

No, I still would be making the thread, because the Cowboys would be going to the Super Bowl without earning it. Also, the refs would be looking to "make up for a bad call" during the next game. The NFL doesn't fix a malicious call by compensating with another malicious call.

They're not even officiating football games out there, they are completely ignoring the rule book, with intent.
 

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I'm not sure if I'm going to watch, but not because of any purposefully boycott. I'm bored of seeing the Patriots, and that non-call feels like it spoiled the playoffs for me a little bit.

It's not a militant boycott, but a little meh apathy. Maybe that's worse?

I've gone ahead and signed up for an on-call shift with my job for that day either way.
 

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No, I still would be making the thread, because the Cowboys would be going to the Super Bowl without earning it. Also, the refs would be looking to "make up for a bad call" during the next game. The NFL doesn't fix a malicious call by compensating with another malicious call.

They're not even officiating football games out there, they are completely ignoring the rule book, with intent.

So I take it you will be giving up NFL all together and not just SB?
 

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It’s just another Sunday night football game. I don’t care about either team besides I have a dinner date with the Mrs. and that’s more important to me ;)
 

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You do realize there wouldn't have been an overtime if that pass interference were called, right?
You also realize that there would have been no final Rams drive, right?

The Saints would have had 3 plays to run the clock out with a fresh set of downs, despite Sean Payton's previous play calls for a pass. All they had to do was kick the final field goal with less than 5 seconds remaining, and game over, win.

The refs took a 99% win scenario to a "Rams get a chance they shouldn't have" scenario.
let me ask you this.

if Saints won the same way Rams won. would you ban the superbowl? you wouldn't watch?
 

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No, I still would be making the thread, because the Cowboys would be going to the Super Bowl without earning it. Also, the refs would be looking to "make up for a bad call" during the next game. The NFL doesn't fix a malicious call by compensating with another malicious call.

They're not even officiating football games out there, they are completely ignoring the rule book, with intent.
Ok, thanks for the honest response. Next question, do you think the Eagles should have been awarded the fumble recovery in the last game they played us?
 

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I know the title is provocative, but I'm not leading with that to annoy others, just for the fun of it.

I'm serious when I say that Goodell needs to hear the message loud and clear, the debacle that the NFL has become will not be tolerated. Officials who watch NFL receivers get blasted, helmet to helmet, before the ball arrives, and then do nothing about it, have revealed a great deal.

They've revealed they are acting maliciously toward a team in the playoffs.
They have been given instructions to prohibit one team from winning.
Incompetence will no longer cloak these truths.

Knowing that, (there is no dispute or controversy) will you actually promote the destruction of the NFL by watching?

I know that Super Bowl parties are a tradition, and they are a great opportunity for socializing, but the time to act is now. Football will be unwatchable if the public ignores the game fixing that went on. I've been invited to a Super Bowl party already, but I've turned it down. I know its not an easy thing to do.

Will you seriously consider making other plans? Fishing, a get together with friends, doing anything else?

The NFL must get this message. WHAT FOOTBALL HAS BECOME IS UNACCEPTABLE!!
I will watch it and hope the b.s. gets fixed in the off-season. I don't expect football to be around forever, or too much longer, so I will watch at least the super bowls while I can.
 

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I never watch the Super Bowl. Honestly who wants to see the Patriots again? The whole product is stale when the same team gets in every year.
 

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Ok, thanks for the honest response. Next question, do you think the Eagles should have been awarded the fumble recovery in the last game they played us?

And, should they have to replay the entire game from that point forward ...
 

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I know the title is provocative, but I'm not leading with that to annoy others, just for the fun of it.

I'm serious when I say that Goodell needs to hear the message loud and clear, the debacle that the NFL has become will not be tolerated. Officials who watch NFL receivers get blasted, helmet to helmet, before the ball arrives, and then do nothing about it, have revealed a great deal.

They've revealed they are acting maliciously toward a team in the playoffs.
They have been given instructions to prohibit one team from winning.
Incompetence will no longer cloak these truths.

Knowing that, (there is no dispute or controversy) will you actually promote the destruction of the NFL by watching?

I know that Super Bowl parties are a tradition, and they are a great opportunity for socializing, but the time to act is now. Football will be unwatchable if the public ignores the game fixing that went on. I've been invited to a Super Bowl party already, but I've turned it down. I know its not an easy thing to do.

Will you seriously consider making other plans? Fishing, a get together with friends, doing anything else?

The NFL must get this message. WHAT FOOTBALL HAS BECOME IS UNACCEPTABLE!!

I like your passion. I really do. Too many idiots these days are allowed to spoil something special for others. I think about 10% of the population in the US are ruining the country. Ruining tradition. Trying to ruin football. Everything they set their sights on turns into a sheet sandwich. These people are a plague.
 

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Replaying the last 1:49 would have created a ton of controversy. Because even though I agree the Saints got hosed, it would be just as unfair to punish the Rams and their fan base for the NFL's idiotic mistake.

My only hope was this would lead to sweeping changes to officiating, but listening to Goodell, it won't. My solution is simple. Hire an extra official who sits in a booth watching instant replays like we do on TV. The moment a call is missed or is wrong, he can buzz down to the field to stop play and fix it ASAP.

Or, and this idea comes from the World Cup, rugby, and the EPL, have an earpiece on the ref that connects him directly to the replay booth. That way, he can immediately receive word to have a look at the jumbo Tron. The replay chaps will replay the incident on it, and tell the ref to either change the call on the pitch or call a penalty that wasn't seen. Also, all penalties need to be made challengeable once and for all. However, the previous idea with the headset would help speed up the process.
 

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I'll not be watching it but not because of how the Rams got in it but the fact the Patriots are in it again, representing the worst division in the NFL over the past 10 years. I didn't watch the last two they were in and the SB is just another game, there is very little super about it. The ads are no longer an incentive and the halftime is a waste of time.

But in no way do I think the NFL could care whether I watch or not or several hundred thousand more do not watch, it will still be an event and the highest audience ratings of the year and a big money maker for CBS. I am not watching because I cannot muster enough interest to care about the game or either team.

I did start the Boycott the SB thread but more out of boredom and that call gave me some impetus to do that but the minute NE was in, I was out. I do not like Boston, the Patriots, Kraft, Belichick or Brady and I do not have enough confidence that they'll get their butts kicked. I gave that up after that ATL game. I wasted all that celebration and fist pumping so this time I will record it and if the Rams should win, I will watch it stoned so that I forget the outcome.
 

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No man. They came out and said he caught it. I remember arguing with you about it non stop lol

They said he caught it by today's rules when they were showing examples of how the new rule would apply, not back in 2014.
 

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They said he caught it by today's rules when they were showing examples of how the new rule would apply, not back in 2014.

This is true. They changed the rules to make that a catch in the future, but the NFL never said it was a catch under the old rules.
 

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https://www.nbcsports.com/washingto...now-says-cowboys-dez-bryant-did-fact-catch-it

Take a gander

Did you read the article?

"According to New York Giants owner and NFL competition committee member, John Mara, the league reached a unanimous agreement that it should be ruled a completion in the future."
Again, Mara is talking at the point where the competition committee changed the rule so when the rule goes into effect in the future (the 2018 season) then catches like the Dez catch will be called catches not that the play in 2014 was a catch. Y'all gotta read past the headlines. They're built to get a reaction to the point where people just run with it without actually reading what the article said. I remember that thread where overly emotional posters were like chickens with their heads cut off saying the NFL admitted they made a mistake in 2014. They didn't. The posters just didn't read what was actually happening because they were triggered by things all over again.
 

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Well..... Brady is going to take the Rams defense apart. Place your bets.
 
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