Did Referees hand New England a win?

[ivotuk]

Didn't get a good look but announcer said "New England gets a first down on a questionable PI."

 

[Cyrus12]

simply a bullshit call...but the pats are one of americas teams would you expect anything less. The pi call was almost as bad as the tuck rule.

 

[chris98251]

Which game are you talking about, I can think of a few

 

[Scottemojo]

Absolutely a bad call.

 

[Jville]

I didn't see it either. But, it wouldn't be the first "entitlement" win they were handed.

 

[Vpk0718]

Even without that call there was still about a minute left and the Pats were at the 30. Brady was going to score regardless.

Cleveland should have recovered the onside kick or played any form of defense in the last two minutes if they wanted to win.

 

[joeseahawks]

The loss actually helps the Browns. Higher draft pick. Only the Bengals would be pissed ...they would have been second seed in AFC. Brady , Manning and Breeze will always get the help of the referees ...

 

[Sports Hernia]

Didn't get a good look but announcer said "New England gets a first down on a questionable PI."

Nope, the NFL refs are perfect ad never make bad calls. :sarcasm_off:

In all seriousness that was a ticky tack BS call. Call me anti-NFL and anti-commish (and I am) but I don't mind it so much when they go AGAINST the NFL's favorite teams (NE, Denver, Indy, SF, GB, Dallas, Pittsburgh, Giants, Jets) .

 

[Polaris]

They absolutely did. I saw the end of that game, and the officials absolutely BUTCHERED that call. Handed New England a first and goal from the 1 with time running out.

 

[Greenhell]

The loss actually helps the Browns. Higher draft pick. Only the Bengals would be pissed ...they would have been second seed in AFC. Brady , Manning and Breeze will always get the help of the referees ...

I pray for the day that Russell Wilson gets that ref help to.

 

[TzarokHawkFan]

It's not like they lost recently on a horrible non-call or anything....*cough*GronkRapedintheendzone*cough*

 

[Scottemojo]

Although they got handed that last call, good. That "legal" hit the Browns put on Gronk was weak, so I think they deserve the loss.

 

[AbsolutNET]

One of the worst calls of the year. PI wasn't there, and you especially don't throw that flag in the end zone at the end of the game unless it's plainly obvious. Browns got hosed big time

 

[lvnginhwktwn]

Didn't get a good look but announcer said "New England gets a first down on a questionable PI."

Ya bad call, but they have been on the other side of two bad calls this year that cost them games, the pushing in the back call in the Jets game? And the the holding on Gronk in the Panthers game. So I look at it as Karma.

 

[Brass-Knuckles]

they sure did.. making up for the Panthers game (last play where they picked up the flag)

 

[lvnginhwktwn]

they sure did.. making up for the Panthers game (last play where they picked up the flag)

You just had to do the 5 trophies avatar, be very very quiet, it makes them mad.

 

[dontbelikethat]

How ironic that no Hawk fan even mentioned anything about his avatar, but it makes us go into hulk mode alright, like grrrrrrrr. :roll:

 

[Sports Hernia]

they sure did.. making up for the Panthers game (last play where they picked up the flag)

You just had to do the 5 trophies avatar, be very very quiet, it makes them mad.

Maybe I should make an avatar of my old bowling trophies, they are probably just as old as those and have the same amount of relevance to this present season. :th2thumbs:

 

[rottweiler]

I think the zebs handed the Patsies the win, yeah. Because:

1.) they are tired of getting yelled at by Tom Brady after games, and

2.) the AFC is so pathetically unbalanced this season, the NFL has passed down a official rule to the zebs to keep the teams in the conference which have the best records alive, to lend some stability to the AFC playoff picture — sort of like the way the BCS works in NCAAF.

I have no doubt we can all see why the NFL might think like that.

Like I said in another thread: Follow the money.

 

[Erebus]

they sure did.. making up for the Panthers game (last play where they picked up the flag)

You just had to do the 5 trophies avatar, be very very quiet, it makes them mad.

I don't see anything wrong with it. Five trophies is absolutely something to be proud of. Just don't bring it up as a basis for an argument predicting future success.