Longest Week

[*Awful Llama*]

(01-30-2019, 04:34 PM)XenoMorph Wrote:
lol let alone all the calls during the season that affect the standings and the playoff teams in general..

and there were plenty of bad calls in the saints rams game itself.   You are right that not 1 bad call is the culprit.. but everyone will always remember the last bad call in a very close contest.

When I read this the first thing I thought of was that late-game, bullshit roughing the passer call on Justin Smith in 2006 that handed the game to TB.  I was at (ugh) a relative's baby shower when it happened, and even the baby knew I was pissed. In a season, no less, where one more win would have meant the playoffs for the Bengals.  And, who knows what happens from there if they'd made it (ok, Merv would have been 0-8 instead of 0-7, but, a guy can dream, right?).

I can't begin to imagine what Saints fans are feeling at this point.  We might have been robbed of a regular season victory in the example above, but, to have the SB swiped from you?  Man, that's gonna eat at you a long time.  That being said, the lawsuit is the definition of tilting at windmills.  This is the NFL, and you don't beat the shield.  It'll get thrown out, and the game will go on, as it should.  The real shame is if they don't take this opportunity make sure this sort of debacle never happens again.  If they do, then good enough.