NFL is even pissing off the refs...

[KillerKat]

again.

The first call was Washington defensive lineman Chris Baker's cheap shot on Philadelphia quarterback Nick Foles in Week 3, which drew a 15-yard penalty and ejection. NFL executive vice president of football operations Troy Vincent strangely said Baker did nothing wrong and wouldn't be fined, even though he clearly broke the NFL rule on blindsiding a player away from the play.

The NFL was quick to say a 15-yard penalty on Chiefs safety Husain Abdullah, who slid to the ground after a touchdown and went into Muslim prayer, was incorrectly called. The league didn't even wait 12 hours after the call was made on Monday night to say it was wrong.

The NFLRA said that the league is saying one thing and doing another.

“In the last two weeks, two penalties that were called in games that drew national attention were publicly announced to be in error by the League office, however the Officiating Department later graded the calls as correct. This has caused confusion for NFL officials as to what the League does and doesn’t want called,” the Referees Association said in a statement, via Pro Football Talk.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdown-corner/nfl-referees-association--league-saying-calls-are-wrong-when-they-re-correct-211024522.html

I read the rulebook and even I agree the Baker hit was a cheap shot and against what the rules state.

[fjblair]

Foles was not "away from the play".

[Falcons1stPanthers2nd]

The refs piss me off. 6 figures to work 16 days and the fugers can't even get half the calls right.

[Jase]

also whose idea was it to not call offensive holding anymore?

[KillerKat]

Foles was not "away from the play".

It's still against the rulebook to make a blindside block.

[The Huddler]

they said the muslim prayer thing was ok to save face. Last thing we need is the media spouting off about that bullshit too!

[Peppers90 NC]

nfl is in shambles, how they crumble to the media is shameful.

[fjblair]

It's still against the rulebook to make a blindside block.

 

 

True.

[Kuhndog94]

I'm not usually one of those "FIRE GOODELL types"....

 

 

But please... please... get rid of him. 

 

This league is crumbling under him.

 

The dude should be allowed to pray. The Golden Calf of Bristol was allowed to. The blindside block should've been penalized. The refs were actually right in those cases.

[Chimera]

speaking of refs, they are trying to do anything to give the saints the game.

[heel31ok]

also whose idea was it to not call offensive holding anymore?

 

they make up for that by calling D holding, as long as they call holding on someone right?

[heel31ok]

people love high scoring but my goodness make it fair, let's bring back bump and run or something.I would also like to make it unsportmanlike to call for pass interference . Every incomplete pass play some receiver is running around with their hand up in the air.