Standing Pat

[Long Run]

They didn't score enough points when they dominated the first half. Lost their mojo, made a couple of bonehead plays. And yet, it is the Patriots who survived to go back to the Super Bowl against another upstart. Hope that game is half as fun as the two this weekend.

[RayThom]

GO RAMS!

[Big RR]

I've been waiting for the Rams back in the Super Bowl for a long time; the only thing that will mar it, is that I will have to listen to tony Romo kiss the ass and sing the praises fo brady for the entire game--just as he did during this and the last Pats game. You can respect the player and his achievements, but come on!

I may turn off the volume and turn on the radio--just like I did with MNF when Cosell was on.

[Lord Jim]

Of course if it weren't for a completely blown pass interference call, the Rams wouldn't be going to the game...

And if it hadn't been for an unbelievably stupid lining up in the neutral zone infraction by Dee Ford that negated an interception that would have left the Chiefs with possession of the ball with a four point lead and 54 seconds on the clock, Tom Shady and Co. wouldn't be headed for the Super Bowl either...

However I have to admit that even though the two teams that won shouldn't have, that was one very exciting day of football...

The 4th quarter of the AFC Championship in particular was probably the most exciting 4th quarter I've seen in many years...

I guess I'll be rooting for the Rams, or more precisely rooting against the Patriots...

I will root enthusiastically against the Patriots in any game (unless they're playing the Dallas Cowboys of course) until Cry Brady retires, at which point I will go back to not caring about them one way or the other...

[Big RR]

True on all account about the games--especially the blown call (and I am a Rams fan from way back and wanted to see them win). I personally don't hate the Patriots or Brady (Bellichek is another matter), but I hate the cult that Brady has spawned, and found Romo's fawning commentary about him almost as tiresome as his playing for the cowboys.

[Long Run]

I am a Rams fan from way back

Fearsome Foursome, Roman Gabriel, Tommy Fears, Cleveland?

[Big RR]

No to Cleveland (not sure when they moved, but before my time, but to the early 60s with Olsen/Lundy/Jones. Grier and Roman Gabriel days. the Rams taught me more about snatching defeat from the jaws of victory and relying on the wrong players (look at Pat Haden over Harris, Jaworski, Vince Ferragamo--even after his 79 and 80 seasons) than any other team I ever supported.

[Long Run]

I will have to listen to tony Romo kiss the ass and sing the praises fo brady

[Lord Jim]

[Lord Jim]

Strop should like this one:

Saints fans sue NFL over call that helped send Rams to Super Bowl

Jan 22 (Reuters) - Two New Orleans Saints fans on Tuesday sued the National Football League and its commissioner Roger Goodell to force a review of the team's controversial 26-23 loss in Sunday's National Football Conference championship that sent the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl.

A hearing has been provisionally set for six days before the Super Bowl, which will be contested between the Rams and the New England Patriots.

The teams were tied 20-20 late in regulation when officials failed to call pass interference or helmet-to-helmet penalties on Rams cornerback Nickell Robey-Coleman for knocking Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis down as he awaited a pass.

Had a penalty been called, the Saints could have tried to run down the clock and kick a winning field goal with seconds left. Instead, the Saints settled for a field goal sooner, allowing the Rams to tie the game and send it to
overtime.

In their complaint filed in a Louisiana state court, Saints season ticket holders Tommy Badeaux and Candis Lambert said Goodell should enforce an NFL rule they believe gives him power to negate the Rams' win or restart the game.

That rule lets Goodell act when a "calamity" occurs that he deems "so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game."

The rule also bars Goodell from acting when teams complain about officials' judgments or routine errors. "Games involving such complaints will continue to stand as completed," it said.

The NFL did not immediately respond to requests for comment. The Saints have not formally complained to the league.

The Rams are preparing to meet the New England Patriots in the Super Bowl on Feb. 3.

Prospects for Tuesday's lawsuit are unclear, although some similar prior cases have been unsuccessful.

In December 2014, an Oklahoma state judge refused to restart a high school football playoff game after officials wrongly negated a go-ahead touchdown with 1:04 to play.

District Judge Bernard Jones wrote that while some observers viewed the outcome as a tragedy, "more tragic, however, would be for this Court to assert itself in this matter."

Reversals of U.S. professional sports results are rare.

In 1983, baseball's American League president voided a New York Yankees win against the Kansas City Royals and ordered the game restarted from where the Royals' George Brett had hit a go-ahead home run, but was called out because his bat had too much pine tar. The Royals won the restarted game. (Reporting by Jonathan Stempel in New York; Editing by Tom Brown)

https://www.aol.com/article/news/2019/0 ... /23649956/

[Big RR]

I'll bet it goes nowhere; these errors happen a lot. Indeed, as I recall there was a game in the 90s where Colorado got a 5th down and won the game--giving them the NCAADiv 1A national championship. I have also seen NFL games where the refs awarded loss of a down plus the yards for holding (it doesn't result in that) and many other infractions--in fact, in this game the Rams were beaten out of at least one (and likely two) pass interference calls (not as blatant as this, but still blown calls). since the rule is discretionary to the Commissioner, I seriously doubt the courts will act; and as much as I think that call was ridiculous, I wouldn't want to see the Commissioner decide the outcome of a game unilaterallythe rule is pretty silly IMHO.

[RayThom]

[Long Run]