Which is more useless?
Right now, I’m leaning NFL Offices.
So as all self respecting Titans fans remember, while in that horrendous loss to Baltimore in which we played our 3rd worst game of the year, towards the end of the game the officials missed an extremely important call. Sitting on 3rd down for Baltimore, the play clock clicked down to zero, which was then followed by Joe Flacco taking a step back, reading the defense again, asking for the play call again because he had forgotten it while reading the defense, then running under center where he then remembered it was a shotgun play and ran back, followed by him hiking the ball. Of course, Jeff Fisher went ballistic as he should, but guess what? Play isn’t reviewable. The spot of the ball, one of the most arbitrary calls in the game is reviewable, but to just take 3 seconds to check and see “Oh yeah, clock’s on ZERO, definite delay of game,” is not. WHAT?!?!
Well we all know what happened then. Flacco to Heap, 1st and 10 on the Titans 45, where they then drove down and kicked a field goal. We then followed that up with a possession that was the worst clock management drive we have had all season, which was just great to watch as a Titans fan. Especially if you enjoy throwing up all over yourself in disgust.
Naturally, after we lost, I was steamed about the non-call on the delay of game as it legitimately changes the game in our favor if they get that right, but nothing is guaranteed and we lost the game ourselves in so many other ways that I wasn’t going to dwell on that call for more than one bitter, drunken night of pain and emptiness. Whatever. Close the wound, bury the anger deep, and wait 25 years until a tumor manifests in my colon and get it removed.
Well the NFL Offices have just re-opened that wound. They, and specifically Mike Pereira, Head of Officiating, apparently AGREED that the call was blown. Thanks for the sympathy, NFL Offices! I feel so much better for our wasted season! So, can I ask a question? Can we restart the game from that moment, make it 3rd and 7 on their own 27 instead of 1st and 10 on our own 45? Because that seems fair to me!
But no, the NFL Offices once again, just like with the Ed Hochuli call, are content to say “Yep, that one’s on us. We missed it,” and move on.
Thanks NFL Offices. Maybe you can team up with the UN and fix that Darfur thing ON TOP of fixing incalculably horrendous officiating errors that cost a team a season. That’ll be great.
I wonder…
Maybe the Titans will throw out NFL officials and ignore NFL economic salary cap sanctions until Roger Goodell invades LP Field under pretenses of the Titans hiding illegal game tapes of other teams practices, which they’ll never find, yet still remain in LP Field for 5+ years. Then NFL Offices would REALLY get my vote.
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Tags: Baltimore Ravens, Jeff Fisher, NFL Offices incompetence, Soul Crushing Season enders, United Nations
