Lions play a high variance game of having a gunslinger QB chuck it a lot without much of a run game, so it wouldn't be that surprising to see an upset or a ridiculous blowout.

My wife has a Seattle U36 parlay to win tonight. I have a feeling she's going to miss her under

Tell her not to get too excited by the inevitably low halftime score.

Right? That's pretty much how I feel. I'm hoping both teams remember how to play D in the second half

Going to miss Don Orsillo on the call for the Red Sox. Disgraceful how poorly NESN has treated him. Padres fans are going to be lucky to have him from here on out.

Ding ding ding.

Congrats Jim.

Hallelujah. He won't be missed

So the Mets have somehow found a way into a series where I am actually rooting for them.

Oh they're in the playoffs again? Way worse than being a Mariners fan.

I made my biggest bet of the season so far on Seattle for this game. I forgot about Lynch when I placed the bet . Will be fun to sweat, at least.

one one sideline you have



and on the other you have



so, yeah, as a Lions fan I'm not too enthused.

Congrats master!

Took under 27 points when Lions were at the ~10 yard line on their side with around 5 minutes left so I could breakeven on the game. It wasn't looking good until sports entertainment happened.

Woot!

Well, at least we got the soul crushing ending capped off by the "NFL office apologizes to Lions for missing obvious, game changing call" postscript out of the way by Halloween this year

We're never able to tuck our refshow wins away on Sunday morning like the Jets did against us in 1998 and the Ravens did against us in 2003. The whole damn country always sees it.

Ah well, the hollowest win still beats losing.

yesssssssssssssssss



also, new guy:

I wish the Pittsburgh/Miami one from a few years ago was on national tv.




Ruled a TD
Clear fumble, clearly recovered by Miami on the basis of the guy in the Miami uniform holding the football after the play was over.
On review, ruled fumble. Declared Pitt ball because they couldn't see who got the ball or something, despite miami guy having the ball.
Pitt scores and wins


cliffs:
same as it ever was

dude legit is holding the ball up at the end like HEY REF I HAS DA FOOTBAWL

I know its hard to talk logic with a lot of sports fans, so I hope you are not one of them. The rule states that their has to be clear evidence of a fumble recovery and by rule once there is a pile of players, there cant be a review for that. The fact that he comes up with the ball afterwards is irrelevant.

Yeah, by rule you can't really reverse that into being Miami ball. It's a bad beat for sure, but once it's called a TD there's no more they can do but what they did.

They actually could have given the ball to Miami there had it been a clear recovery, which it wasnt

I know.

right right. I'm not going rawr cheated lol. I'm responding to your post about weird situations where the refs got it technically correct based on the nittiest interpretation of the rules imaginable but probably wouldn't be correct if an ounce of common sense was used.

Like you mentioned it happening to Seattle on national tv a lot and not being able to hide them away (see also: simultaneous possession) and wishing it would happen on a random sunday. I could have just used Calvin catch as a more known example.

Have always found it a bit weird that they have no problems using multiple camera angles to get a good estimate on if a knee was down when the ball came out. Like a body blocking the ball from one angle and a body blocking the knee from another, but you can use the two together to have a pretty good idea of what the big picture is. Yet when 3 people from the same team jump on the ball - thus creating a pile with one person from the opposing team laying over the top of them - and then a second shot shows one of those players having the ball at the end, they can't do anything about it.

More talking about some silly results based on rules than some rawr 4 years ago my team lost an irrelevant game and I r mad. Ya know?

Yeah, honestly there doesn't seem like there's an easy solution to the pile-up thing. Usually even piecing shots together doesn't provide enough proof of the entire chain of custody (for lack of a non-nerdy non-legal description of it) in order to constitute a reversal. I've definitely seen a couple of situations where the Seahawks seemed to get screwed by the same thing, but I kind of shrug it off since I'm not even sure what rule change I would propose to fix spots like that.

Anyway, I can't say that I particularly enjoy getting significantly aided on a screwy non-call, though I'll also say that I feel less bad about this one than I have about others for reasons that aren't worth getting into. In the aftermath of a game like this you just shrug and say "yep, we were lucky to escape with a win" and move on. If I was on the losing side of these exact same facts, I'm guessing my reaction would be to be annoyed with the non-call but not furious about it (and on some bad breaks I certainly do get furious).