NFL execs upset after Head of Officiating seen on Cowboys' party bus
 

http://www.cbssports.com/nfl/writer/...-execs-say-yes

lol. awesome.

It doesn't mention the part of the Head of Officiating being the one to take pictures of Jerry & his Hoes in the bathroom..

rumored that there was also large white man, with a crick in his neck, also on the bus. his identity can't be confirmed due to the disguise. Witnessess recalled him being referred to as 'Omaha'

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Jerra's world, learn to accept and appreciate not hate. Lot of love in that world.

Can we add this to the NFL is fixed thread?

You could, but it would shoot down the believers' only explanation as to why the Cowboys suck year after year in a fixed league where their success is one of the biggest boons to the NFL's profit margin.

Jerrah was a moron for putting that huge 4:3 screen in his stadium.

The Jags out Jerry'd, Jerry with that super wide screen.

Bumpity bump bump.

:)

BOOM!

Interesting.

Explains why they picked up a flag for a blatant pass interference penalty against Dallas.

Did he call down to the field and ask that the pass interference call be called off?

Beat me to it.

Don't make a fuss, just get on the bus!

"Um, who do I make the check out to?" J.ajones

Clark needs to take him to the Bunny Ranch! We need all the help we can get!

Awesome! They were partying BEFORE the game!

Clark probably tried to buy off the same ref with a $50 to Applebee's and offered to go halves on 10-10 taxi.

LMAO I had forgotten about this

I'd think that bus kind of stinks after a five month long party.

When the **** is Clark going to start hooking up these refs with blow and prostitutes?

LOL, I wish every bad call (thinking back to any number of missed/non-called holds we suffered. Let's hope this changes that.

Monday I hope.

Was the head of officiating for this playoff game, the same dude that was on the bus back in August?

Is that what I'm seeing here?

'It's all good, 'boys. Yawl make the playoffs, we'll do the rest to make sure you at least get to the Divisional...'

Yes.

And yet, grown, free-thinking adults somehow convince themselves that the NFL isn't rigged.

Lol.

Fire the ref immediately. What an idiot.

What? No he wasn't. Here is the complete officiating crew for that game. Morelli was the crew chief.

R: Pete Morelli
U: Roy Ellison
HL: Jerry Bergman
LJ: Mike Spanier
FJ: Barry Anderson
SJ: Allen Baynes
BJ: Lee Dyer
Replay official: Bob McGrath

http://www.footballzebras.com/2014/12/31/12208/

You're an idiot.

Wow. What was a gray area, now seems very black and white. That call was absurd.

ramjackson just sent a load to orbit

At least I don't call people names on the internet.

Not for this game.

The head of officiating for the entire NFL.

Morelli is just a referee. He's not the head of anything.

So, your contention is that Dean Blandino somehow instructed Morelli to pickup the flag?

Shit is rigged, yo.

I don't know; did he??

All kinds of plausible deniability up in here.

So you confirm that you are just throwing shit on the wall?

Nope. I will neither confirm nor deny any fecal throwing.

I'm just claiming plausible deniability.

I mean...you DID see how Detroit got royally screwed over, right?? Not just on the picking up the flag nonsense (which I agree with; Pettigrew pushed off as well - if anything, they should have offset and played the down over), but when #88 for the Cowboys walks onto the field from the sideline WITHOUT A HELMET and begins harassing the officials...

Well, that no-call was the most blatant part of the operation.

Tell me again how it's not rigged. Please. I dare you.

Shitty officiating does not = Rigged

Whatever you have to tell yourself to believe the lie.

I'm still waiting for concrete evidence. You have none.

You can't find it if you aren't trying to see it.

Nope, I saw a crew that didn't call face-guarding (because it's not an NFL rule), I saw a ball hit the DB in the back, I saw a lot contact both ways in the "hand-fighting" catagory, I saw a WR grab a DB's face mask, and that's about it.

Now, if your point is that in the current NFL that set of circumstances usually results in the offense being awarded a bullshit DPI penalty, then I'll agree that those bullshit calls are made WAAAAAY too often and we all know that's part of what's killing football as a sport.

If this is a dawn of a new era where defense is once again not illegal, than I'd say "FINALLY"!!!! And if they can, somehow, add two more officials to the field to ONLY watch the O-line for holding, then I'd say the NFL is taking steps in the right direction.

But to focus on the both-ways hand fighting and mutual contact that didn't result in a DPI getting called (ultimately), well that's just a little short-sighted...

:clap: Exactly...

Meet Pete Morelli, yesterday's white hat:

Consistently bad = reasonable doubt

Yeah, THAT guy is capable of rigging a game.

But there has to be a smoking gun somewhere, right?

Right?

The look is prolly a result of him being a DB is the past and having had a WR grab his facemask, threw him to the ground causing a concussion, and hurt his neck too. You gotta admit the crimes perpetrated by WRs and O-lines these days are one of the NFLs biggest unaddressed issues.

I remember some years ago when the Chiefs were benefactors of I believe Rudd removing his helmet with the Browns thus adding a penalty which put KC in FG range and they won the game as the clock expired.

so....you don't have any.

Cleveland 2002, opening day.

And Rudd thought the play was over and was celebrating.

Dez went TO AN OFFICIAL WITH HIS HELMET OFF - FROM THE SIDELINE!! HE WASN'T EVEN INVOLVED IN THE PLAY ON THE FIELD!!!!

That 15 and a Detroit 1st down, by rule.

Unsportsmanlike.

Ever hear the old cliche about leading a horse to water??

Do you mean, on the field transgressions, or the ruggish thuggish off-field activity??

I don't know if it's a conspiracy or not... but I do ****ing hate the Cowboys.

I know what facts and proof are.

How on EARTH was that pass interference? The ball hit the DB in the back, once it hit him in the back both defenders fell down from incidental contact. I don't get it at all. You CAN face guard in the NFL.

http://fat.gfycat.com/IdioticLivelyDavidstiger.gif

Straight from the NFL Rulebook:

(a) Contact by a defender who is not playing the ball and such contact restricts the receiver’s opportunity to make the catch.

Pretty clear to me

Blandino says PI should have been called.


Sorry LionFan....,

http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-afterm...ideos_blandino

I doubt they wear helmets when they are out drinking.

Touche, my 'n-word'...Tou-****in'-che.

It was PI - on the offense.

The part that isn't shown in that .gif is Pettigrew pushing off.

Anyway you slice it, Detroit got robbed.

Well, it's like Hali being held 400 times per game or the 500 bad spots every Chiefs game or thinking the teams with the best QBs get all the calls.... if you try hard enough to see it, I'm sure you can convince yourself it's there.

I just don't see why the NFL would care so much in most cases.... Cowboys had won one playoff game in like 17 years, but now they care? Peyton is the NFL's love child, but not enough to actually win much of anything outside of playing Rex Grossman?

I could see them swaying outcomes by emphasizing rules before/during games and stuff like that, but I just don't see the huge benefit of making sure the Cowboys win over the Lions in that case. Hell, I'd be more willing to accept the Patriots/Ravens being rigged for Brady/Manning or Brady/Luck. The risk/reward of rigging games and it eventually being leaked is just not there. Well, except that time the Saints won the SB... that was super weird, right?

If you're saying that "by the letter of the rules" (as written or as understood) that our two DEs aren't held A LOT, you're crazy! If they applied the same ticky-tack mindset to the O-line holding as they do in 99.999937615% of DBs "DPIing" a QB's WR, life would be awesome for the three weeks where the NFL's total scoring (across the league) is like 100 points.

And there is the key.

The NFL as a whole is filthy stinking rich, they don't need to rig anything for rating etc...they will still be just fine.

We had the Rams and Titans in a SB for **** sake. 2 towns nobody gives a shit about in the football world except their own fans.
The Ravens and the Panthers? Same.

I would also love to be in the room where the decide who they are going to favor and how they are going to go about it. They cant get personal conduct penalties right and consistent but they are fixing games with no problems.

Yea right.

I'm saying it's not significantly better/worse for anyone similar to Hali (obviously, if you suck at DE, you're not going to get held as much). People don't watch for how many times their own linemen get away with holding or pay attention nearly as much when their team isn't playing.

I'd be fine with our O-line getting flagged for holding too.

Hell, that would mean that they would be getting in defender's lanes, and...you know...trying to stop them.

That would be a refreshing change, ideally.

The problem with the rules is this...When you have the head of officials on TV saying they "could" have called Dez for a 15 yarder based on the interepertation, but he's ok that they didn't. That leads to serious issues when they do call it. Same with Detroit getting called for two drive extending penalties shortly after the no call on Pettigrew. It's either a damn penalty every time or it isn't.

Yup. What is and what isn't pass interference has to be simplified so a man watching without the aid of instant replay can make the call accurately 75% of the time. What is and what isn't offensive holding has to be simplified such that it can be called accurately 95% of the time.

It also pissed me off hearing during a game Sunday the emphasis on only overturning calls with overwhelming evidence to confirm...only for KC to get ****ed half a dozen times down the stretch on overturns that weren't even close.

In addition to defensive holding
In addition to Dez Bryant not getting flagged for having his helmet off while arguing the call

Dallas got away with highway robbery here

Baghdad Blandino only made things worse. The rules are written so poorly that any call can be defended by the league as correct due to interpretation.

As has been stated multiple times, before this gif begins Pettigrew pushed off of the LB 2x including once off his facemask which is a blatant hands to the face.

Offsetting penalties, repeat third down. Detroit still got screwed.

Yep.

There's really no way to rationalize this one for me. They made the call on the field, announced it to the world. And then minutes later picked up the flag with no explanation and continued on like nothing out of the ordinary had happened. I've admittedly only been watching the nfl as an adult for about 20 years but I've never seen anything like it. I don't know if there was anything questionable actually going on but that was the worst way they could have handled it. Acknowledge the change, better yet explain what's going on. Don't act like a kid trying to hide something you shoplifted behind your back. It's a broadcast with millions of eyes on them. They can't hide what they're doing. They just look guilty now, even if they did nothing wrong.

Perhaps even more key is that that to me was perhaps the most egregious instance of officiating altering the flow of a game that I have ever seen. That kind of thing shouldn't be allowed to happen at any time, much less a playoff situation. Detroit could have stemmed the tide by not shanking the punt or by stopping the Dallas offense but that play was the cornerstone of everything that followed.

It was a baffling momentum killer that caused a sub-par head coach to roll over and let it affect the team.

What's the argument? They said they ****ed up. Case closed.