To flag or not to flag?
Refs not only picked up a flag for Dallas tonight, they turned millions of fans, casual and otherwise, into certified Cheesehead Green Bay Packers fans next weekend
Okay, let’s be honest here. Other factors beyond the “tuck rule” – including the overtime rule at the time, which meant the Raiders never had the ball after they lost the coin toss – contributed to Oakland’s 2002 loss to New England. And Detroit made plenty of mistakes today against Dallas. But it was still a chickensh*t move to call a penalty and pick up the flag. Especially when the NFL needs all the integrity it can get. #ImtalkingaboutyouGoodell
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The SEC is thinking that if they had #DETvsDAL referees in the #SugarBowl, #Alabama would be playing for the national championship next week.
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All is explained. Refs looked in #Dallas owner #JerryJones‘ box & realized they needed to cross bridges to get home #DETvsDAL #ChrisChristie
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Since CBS has the Bengals-Colts game, after ESPN’s pre-game show on the NFL playoffs, the network shifted over to the PBA Scorpion Bowling Championship. Wouldn’t it been cheaper with similar ratings to have run a test pattern?
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Thinking David Shaw at Stanford did a better job of containing Andrew Luck than many NFL defenses are doing.
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Meanwhile, going to be tough for the SF 49ers, finding a coach who is smart enough to lead the team back to the playoffs, and still dumb enough to think Jed York knows what he’s doing.
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Nice win Saturday for the Ravens, but afterwards coach John Harbaugh declared Joe Flacco “the best quarterback in football.” With all due respect, and I like the guy, Flacco isn’t even the best QB in the AFC North.
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Joaquin commented “About 12 men on the field, baseball players must be smarter than NFL players, as they never have ‘too many men on the field’”.
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Not unexpected, but still sorry to hear of the death of Stuart Scott. Presumably if they’re watching the NFL playoffs in Heaven, there will be some rousing choruses of “Booyah!
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“Taken 3” Really? Because even Liam Neeson can’t remember numbers 1 and 2?
2015 could be shaping up to be a fun year. Louie Gohmert is challenging John Boehner to be Speaker of the House. This is the Texas Rep. who talked about terrorist “anchor babies”, claimed the Obama administration was full of “Muslim Brotherhood members,” accused John McCain of conspiring with Al-Qaeda, and said “Jesus hates taxes.”
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Two men were arrested in New York for stealing over $10,000 of Crest White Strips. No details were immediately available about the men, but a pretty safe bet they weren’t British.
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You can’t make this “stuff” up: After “The Tablet” reported that the HarperCollins Atlas of the Middle East omitted Israel, the company says it will remove the books from shelves and destroy all copies. HarperCollins said the omission was due to “local preferences” as the book was primarily sold in the Gulf Region.
“Local preferences?” Can just imagine what fun we could have in red and blue states with that standard.
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Toledo beat Arkansas State 63-44 in the #GoDaddyBowl. Shocking. Who knew Toledo and Arkansas State had football teams?
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Left Coast Sports Babe 
January 5, 2015 at 10:30 pm
Dunno why no Detroit player didn’t stomp on that refs hand when he went to pick up the flag.
Note to Green Bay fans: Even replacement refs would have got the right call.
January 5, 2015 at 11:01 pm
Alright, enough is enough. Referee Pete Morelli has closed comments on “The Controversial Call” and has been quoted as saying “We’re on to Green Bay!”