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NFL: Polamalu call was a mistake (1 Viewer)

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http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5252682

NEW YORK (AP) - The NFL said the referee made a mistake: Troy Polamalu caught the ball.

The league acknowledged Monday that referee Pete Morelli erred when he overturned on replay Polamalu's interception of a Peyton Manning pass Sunday in the playoff game between Pittsburgh and Indianapolis.

Mike Pereira, the league's vice president of officiating, said in a statement that Morelli should have upheld the call, made with 5:26 left in Pittsburgh's win over the Colts.

 
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If Indy would have won the game the NFL would not have said a word about the call being wrong!

 
I'm glad they clarified.Edit: I think I would watch more baseball if the league ran anything like the NFL. They make a mistake and they admit it, a player gets out of hand he gets punished, you break the rules and you reap the consequences. Most every team starts off the season with a reasonable chance due to the salary cap and the league stays competitive. It's what a sports organization should strive to be IMO.

 
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WellDUH!Tony clearly had possession of the ball then knees hit the ground and ball came loose. That sounds like a catch when a WR does it.

 
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If Indy would have won the game the NFL would not have said a word about the call being wrong!
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Not true. The last time they did this was for the NYG/SF wildcard game, when the wrong call did potentially cost New York the game.
 
Well

DUH!

Tony clearly had possession of the ball then knees hit the ground and ball came loose. That sounds like a catch when a WR does it.
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Who the frick is Tony?
 
Troy...........Tony..........it's all about the HAIR.
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About that hair, Troy says he keeps it long out of superstition. He was concussion prone early on in his playing days. Hasnt gotten a concussion since his last haircut.Anyone else sceptical on whether he can continue to be an impact safety in years to come? He runs around an awful lot and throws his body around like no other. Lets hope he stays healthy. Its great to watch a safety be the star of the defense. :thumbup:

 
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Troy...........Tony..........it's all about the HAIR.
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About that hair, Troy says he keeps it long out of superstition. He was concussion prone early on in his playing days. Hasnt gotten a concussion since his last haircut.Anyone else sceptical on whether he can continue to be an impact safety in years to come? He runs around an awful lot and throws his body around like no other. Lets hope he stays healthy. Its great to watch a safety be the star of the defense. :thumbup:
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At some point the added drag from the hair is going to cause him to lose a step.
 
I'm glad they clarified.

Edit: I think I would watch more baseball if the league ran anything like the NFL. They make a mistake and they admit it, a player gets out of hand he gets punished, you break the rules and you reap the consequences. Most every team starts off the season with a reasonable chance due to the salary cap and the league stays competitive. It's what a sports organization should strive to be IMO.
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This is the way I felt up until this year. The NFL has had a very tough year IMO from giving the Giants an extra home game to the absolutely putrid officiating this post season.
 
As a hockey fan, I wish the NHL would do this instead of always (always) insisting the refs got it right.

 
it was a pretty obvious mistake...glad they owned up to it and I hope that official is fired.
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They might do the same thing they did with Phil Luckett. After he blew the OT coin toss between the Steelers and Lions, amongst other mistakes, they busted him down to a side judge I believe.
 
Troy...........Tony..........it's all about the HAIR.
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About that hair, Troy says he keeps it long out of superstition. He was concussion prone early on in his playing days. Hasnt gotten a concussion since his last haircut.Anyone else sceptical on whether he can continue to be an impact safety in years to come? He runs around an awful lot and throws his body around like no other. Lets hope he stays healthy. Its great to watch a safety be the star of the defense. :thumbup:
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Hi MP,I was thinking the same thing yesterday. He looks like a short term career guy with the way he plays with such abandon. Sure is fun to watch. Although I said the same thing about John Lynch about 10 years ago....

J

 
it was a pretty obvious mistake...glad they owned up to it and I hope that official is fired.
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They might do the same thing they did with Phil Luckett. After he blew the OT coin toss between the Steelers and Lions, amongst other mistakes, they busted him down to a side judge I believe.
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Luckett was also the guy who blew the 12-men-on-the-field call, forcing Cowher to stuff photos in his shirt pocket.
 
I'm glad they clarified.

Edit: I think I would watch more baseball if the league ran anything like the NFL. They make a mistake and they admit it, a player gets out of hand he gets punished, you break the rules and you reap the consequences. Most every team starts off the season with a reasonable chance due to the salary cap and the league stays competitive. It's what a sports organization should strive to be IMO.
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I remember watching a home run that bounced back onto the field incorrectly be ruled a double. No review to correct it. Imagine if that call affected the world series. How do you expect to see a ball ricochet 25 feet off the ground and 400 feet from home plate with a background of fans and know exactly where it hit? And its not for lack of technology. The fans at home had a perfect look.Balls and strikes kill me. Very inconsistent from umpire to umpire. And even "as respect" for the guy on the mound. So easy to control a game. Big difference between a 2-1 and 1-2 count as far as forcing the pitcher to come over the plate.

Biggest complaint is lack of a cap or similar control. Salary distribution is embarassing.

 
it was a pretty obvious mistake...glad they owned up to it and I hope that official is fired.
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They might do the same thing they did with Phil Luckett. After he blew the OT coin toss between the Steelers and Lions, amongst other mistakes, they busted him down to a side judge I believe.
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Luckett was also the guy who blew the 12-men-on-the-field call, forcing Cowher to stuff photos in his shirt pocket.
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Not to mention the Testaverde Phantom TD against the Seahawks, esentially knocking them out of the playoffs. He also called a flat out silly PI call on a Hail Mary (Buf/NE I think), when everyone was clearly going for the ball.A few years ago when the refs failed to restart the clock and gave a TO back to Baltimore (essentially giving them another TO) in the final minutes of a Seahawks game, they fined the ref half his game check. Baltimore ran the ball, called a TO but there was a flag. The TO was waived off due to the flag, but then the flag was waived off and the clock never restarted. Seahawks lost and they hit the zebra for $2500.

I'd like to see a LOT of refs fined for their performance in this year's playoffs.

 
it was a pretty obvious mistake...glad they owned up to it and I hope that official is fired.
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They might do the same thing they did with Phil Luckett. After he blew the OT coin toss between the Steelers and Lions, amongst other mistakes, they busted him down to a side judge I believe.
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Luckett was also the guy who blew the 12-men-on-the-field call, forcing Cowher to stuff photos in his shirt pocket.
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That wasn't Luckett.....Gordon McCarter was the recipient of a Photo and a side order of spittle.Cowher was fined $7,500 for that.....Fined $10,000 for criticising a replay official in 2003 ....He was right on both occasions.

Porter should get a wallop.

 
A few years ago when the refs failed to restart the clock and gave a TO back to Baltimore (essentially giving them another TO) in the final minutes of a Seahawks game, they fined the ref half his game check.
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Speaking of the clock, anyone notice that after the Steelers sack Manning on fourth down at the two at the end of the game, the ref is signalling for the clock to keep running? It ticks down maybe two or three seconds tops before they stop it, which turned out to have no impact on the outcome. Just seemed odd that the ref would lose track of the game situation there.
 
My question is what consequences will this idiot referee suffer. probably none but Joey Porter will be fined big time. as a steeler fan at least I can say for one week that my team not only beat one of the best teams in football but did while beating the officialls also. It was one of the most obiviously one sided officiated game i have ever saw. The officials tried everything in there power to give the game to the Colts

 
it was a pretty obvious mistake...glad they owned up to it and I hope that official is fired.
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They might do the same thing they did with Phil Luckett. After he blew the OT coin toss between the Steelers and Lions, amongst other mistakes, they busted him down to a side judge I believe.
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Luckett was also the guy who blew the 12-men-on-the-field call, forcing Cowher to stuff photos in his shirt pocket.
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That wasn't Luckett.....Gordon McCarter was the recipient of a Photo and a side order of spittle.Cowher was fined $7,500 for that.....Fined $10,000 for criticising a replay official in 2003 ....He was right on both occasions.

Porter should get a wallop.
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I remember seeing a highlight from a Saints game where a WR (Horn I believe) was running wide open to the endzone. The ball was on its way and he was looking back watching it come to him. A ref (I'm pretty sure it was Luckett) was standing in the endzone right in Horn's way. Horn collided with the ref and the pass was incomplete. There was nobody else around and absolutely no reason the ref couldn't have gotten out of the way if he was paying attention. It was a long pass and that dumb move by the ref probably ruined that game :thumbdown:
 
Troy...........Tony..........it's all about the HAIR.
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About that hair, Troy says he keeps it long out of superstition. He was concussion prone early on in his playing days. Hasnt gotten a concussion since his last haircut.
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My brother was a RB and DE in high school and didn't cut his hair during the season at all his senior year. He had problems with concussions and was hoping the hair would give him extra cushioning. I forget whether or not it helped...
 
The officials tried everything in there power to give the game to the Colts
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Enough already. It was a bad call. Maybe even a bad interpretation of the rules.But enough with the conspiracies. The refs don't care who wins. They really, really don't. They don't have money on the game. They're not under orders to make sure the right team wins. They're not secretly cheering against your team.

They make mistakes. It happens, and when it does someone should be accountable. But everyone around here needs to outgrow this conspiracy nonsense.

 
It's the hair, the ref looked away from the ball and stared at his hair wonderring if someone will grab it+swing him around, if it's safe etc. So it still is his fault, kinda :)

 
To me the biggest problem with NFL officiating over this weekend was Instant Replay. It is NOT working. Certainly, not in the way that it was originally intended to work which is to reverse calls based upon "IRREFUTABLE" visual evidence.It is outrageous that 2 potentially game-altering plays in NFL playoff games were called correctly via Live Action on the field (I agreed with both calls at the time) and then were reversed upon replay, based upon a supposed IRREFUTABLE standard. By the way the broadcasters doing the games on TV certainly didn't share the view that the calls should be reversed.#1 The Interception by Pitt has been more than adquately coverd.#2 The Carolina Fumble recovery for a TD by Peppers. Not as egregious as the interception, but still it was ruled a TD on the field. Perhaps the replays made it a debateable point (my view was that via freeze frame the knee was not down when the ball was knocked loose), but NO WAY that the IRREFUTABLE standard was met.Somehow, the replay refs have gotten on some sort of POWER TRIP in which they are completely re-evaluating calls and have thrown the IRREFUTABLE standard out the window (although some refs still seem to correctly apply the original standard). I would rather that they throw the replay option away and just go back to making the calls on the field given the way that the tool is being haphazardly applied by the NFL. To me there is a cost of replay as it slows the game down and takes some of the excitement away from big plays (you can't go too crazy as fan on any big play that is "close", rather you need to keep your emotions in check and wait 3 mintues -- it just doesn't give you the same adrenaline rush), so it the benefits are the current mixed bag of results that we've seen recently, I would scrap the tool entirely.

 
To me the biggest problem with NFL officiating over this weekend was Instant Replay. It is NOT working. Certainly, not in the way that it was originally intended to work which is to reverse calls based upon "IRREFUTABLE" visual evidence.

It is outrageous that 2 potentially game-altering plays in NFL playoff games were called correctly via Live Action on the field (I agreed with both calls at the time) and then were reversed upon replay, based upon a supposed IRREFUTABLE standard. By the way the broadcasters doing the games on TV certainly didn't share the view that the calls should be reversed.

#1 The Interception by Pitt has been more than adquately coverd.

#2 The Carolina Fumble recovery for a TD by Peppers. Not as egregious as the interception, but still it was ruled a TD on the field. Perhaps the replays made it a debateable point (my view was that via freeze frame the knee was not down when the ball was knocked loose), but NO WAY that the IRREFUTABLE standard was met.

Somehow, the replay refs have gotten on some sort of POWER TRIP in which they are completely re-evaluating calls and have thrown the IRREFUTABLE standard out the window (although some refs still seem to correctly apply the original standard). I would rather that they throw the replay option away and just go back to making the calls on the field given the way that the tool is being haphazardly applied by the NFL. To me there is a cost of replay as it slows the game down and takes some of the excitement away from big plays (you can't go too crazy as fan on any big play that is "close", rather you need to keep your emotions in check and wait 3 mintues -- it just doesn't give you the same adrenaline rush), so it the benefits are the current mixed bag of results that we've seen recently, I would scrap the tool entirely.
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:goodposting: Although I think that the replay for the most part has worked correctly. Except for these two calls where you have touched on their "power trip", I believe that it is a good thing to have. I would hate for an obviously blown call to not have an option to be overturned.

 
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