NFL Tells Vikings What The World Already Knew

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… I honestly felt like I don’t know WHAT is a catch anymore. After the Calvin Johnson play against the Bears, I’m convinced the rules are too vague and the referees don’t know anymore.

I did know, however, that Shiancoe’s catch was more of a catch than the fumbled one out the back of the endzone, when the receiver came down out of bounds without control.

In spite of those going against us, and the phantom PI call on Moss, and the ridiculous decisions by Childress, we still should have won if Favre makes some better decisions.

From that to the bogus call in the Steelers game, it’s gotten to the point that the refs are deciding the outcomes of too many games.

What bullshit.

They should imlplant a microchip, if the ball hits the ground with an X amount of force you can call it incomplete. And same thing when passing the goalline,

You know whats worse, you need undeniable and 100% conclusive proof. if it was called a td by the ref and they negate it they need 1000% proof. Thats an easy call to make which is made regularly. This is bullshitt man . i am waiting for Referee robots.

We finally get instant replay after so many years of not having it and they still manage to dick it up. SCOTT GREEN SUCKS, SCOTT GREEN SUCKS, SCOTT GREEN SUCKS, SCOTT GREEN SUCKS, SCOTT GREEN SUCKS.

That call getting overturned is one of the WORST CALLS IN HISTORY!!! I honestly still can’t beleive he overturned the call when it was called a TD. Its true, the Minnesota Vikings get F@CKED more then any NFL team on a week to week basis! NFL Refs. are by far the worst in Sports. Every week there seems to be 1 call that changes the outcome of a game. The Nfl is becoming a F@CKING JOKE. They worry about player Saftey, which they should, they fine players every week for pretty much anything, they put SKIRTS on the QB’S….SO WHEN THE F@CK ARE THEY GOING TO TAKE ACTION AT THE REFS FOR BS CALLS? Why not fines for incorrect calls on TD’S??? Get it right its not that F@CKIN Hard!!!

Clearly someone hadn’t read their rule book. Essentially the ref thought he had conclusive proof to overturn the ruling on the field. I’ve sort of gotten to the point of believing that some refs either don’t know the rules or are in on the fix.

And for what it’s worth, I think the referees in the Championship game last year were worse. Pass interference on Leber for touching a backwards stumbling receiver grasping for a ball that flew 5 feet over his head? I still have trouble thinking about it.

Years ago the National Hockey League made the decision to set up a “War Room” at the league offices in Toronto so that a group of league officials who know the rules of the game are making the instant replay calls. This model has reduced the number of replay decisions that were screwed up based on some on site official misinterpreting a rule. The guys who make the rules are judging the replays.

When is the NFL going to wake up and move to such a replay model? This way we don’t have to wait until the day after a game to see the VP of Officiating apologizing for screwed up calls and reviews. The officiating in the NFL has taken a drastic turn for the worse in the passed few seasons.

The Vikings weren’t the only ones that got screwed yesterday. Not that I care about the Dolphins getting screwed, but this crap has to stop. It’s starting to look like the officiating up here in the CFL where they go get the local McDonald’s manager to round up a few employee’s to pull on the zebra suits.

Mr. Goodell…How about you start suspending and fining your replay officials and on field crews the way you are suspending and fining the players. Accountability at the end of the season does us no good in week 7!!!

if a receiver catches a TD pass, gets up off the ground, hands it to the referee, and HE drops it, would that be overturned also?

NFL makes a rule that every play must be shown on the big screen after the play, because that is beginning to get old.
a visiting head coach should have just as much right to see a close play on the jumbo tron as the home coach does

that sky is still blue despite referee’s ruling yesterday.

if the NFL is going after players who put their heart and soul into playing the game?

Just like they did after the NFCG. But unless they change the winner of the game, this does absolutely nothing for me.

The NFL coming clean like this tic’s me off even more. It means that their officials are incompetent, and they’re incompetence is costing games.

Is what you can say to me, because we don’t have to listen to that filth any longer.

how the refs made the call on Shank for delay of game for tossing the ball in the air?

needs to get their heads out of their A- HOLES!

PLEASE!

every god damn week, we get screwed over by an incompetent ref

They must have felt that he had possession before breaking the plane. Hell at least you guys got admittance, that is a lot more than the Lions got in Chicago.

If the NFL wants to put the hammer down, then they need to suspend the ref who blew this call. period. No BS, just do it.

I don’t think I can stick around without getting into fights and/or being a dick.

Thanks for the hospitality and enjoy the rest of the season.

forgive the biblical reference in a football blog, but this is eerily like Samson. has his hair cut, and he becomes useless (outside of a pick which saved points early in the game).

He needs hair extensions, or some illegal miracle hair growth product from China or something.

I’ve never heard him that pissed off.

as means of restitution, we should get Green Bay’s first rounder.

I mean, honestly- shouldn’t the NFL do SOMETHING to atone for refs f*****g up a call that loses a team a game? One out of sixteen is a lot, particularly within your own division. What happens when we don’t take the division because of this loss? Shouldn’t the Vikes get SOMETHING for this????

Say fellow Viking fans. Do you remember what happened to the field judge Armen Terzian during the Vikings against Dallas game in 1975??? WHAP right in the head with a freaking whiskey bottle!!!! Bet he made better calls after that incident!!

I’m not advocating violence but it might be time for a THROWBACK old school! If you know what I mean. A 1975 tribute to poor officiating.

That ref sucks and I knew it going in. The second he announced his first call I let out an audible, “That guy!?” This guy has sucked in the past and they clearly still suck.

Last week there was a rash of hits and the NFL cracked down on hitting. This time around, at least 3 games decided by poor to questionable officiating. Maybe the league needs to crack down on its officials too.

Unbelievable.

Millions of witnesses, every play recorded from every angle, instant replay available, years of combined refereeing experience and consummate rules knowledge, and the NFL’s officiating crews are making mistakes so egregious that their own management is forced to admit that they were wrong. And it happens again and again.

And it costs the Vikings the game. I’m flashing back to the NFC CG, and a Viking trip to the Super Bowl which never happened, because of this. How many more?

When this happened last year, the final consensus was that the Purple Crew needed to rack up so many points that the refs couldn’t make an impactual decision. It was a good theory, but it doesn’t work when the refs don’t let those points get on the scoreboard to begin with.

Just furious.

I dont understand these stupid rules if a RB hits the ground and the ball pops out (THE GROUND CANT CAUSE A FUMBLE) but if a WR loses the ball after he hits the ground(INCOMPLETE PASS) can someone explain this crap to me.