*** OFFICIAL 2018 NFL THREAD ***

[VaughnP]

I'm not saying it's rigged, but I can totally see why one would think that.

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https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/w...tually-use-it/

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After all the insanity of Championship Sunday wrapped, it was almost hard to comprehend all the crazy things that happened throughout the day. One thing stood above all else though: the Rams pass interference penalty against the Saints that went uncalled by the referees and ultimately allowed the Rams to advance to their first Super Bowl since 2001.
Lingering with that game and the outcome is the NFL's lack of a statement about the lack of a penalty. And lingering over that is a pretty insane and broad rule in the NFL rulebook that would allow NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell, should he so choose, to reverse or reschedule the outcome of the game between the Saints and Rams.
No, really. Goodell could either tell the Rams "sorry" and send the Saints to the Super Bowl or he could make them play the NFC Championship Game again. Either situation falls deep in the realm of the unlikely, but Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1, as noted by Pro Football Talk's Mike Florio, does exist.

And it reads like this:

"The Commissioner has the sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game."

Would Nickell Robey-Coleman admitting he was trying to tackle Tommy Lee Lewis because he was beat for the touchdown qualify under "extraordinarily unfair"? That's probably a stretch, but you can certainly make the case for the Saints winning if the flag was thrown. They would have taken knees or run straight up the middle until there was minimal time on the clock, called timeout and let Wil Lutz kick a field goal to win. Lutz made a longer field goal on the next play anyway.

If the NFL decided it did qualify, Goodell, the rulebook continues, could change history:


"The Commissioner's powers under this Section 2 include . . . the reversal of a game's result or the rescheduling of a game, either from the beginning or from the point at which the extraordinary act occurred."

Would anyone besides the Rams and their twelve fans, one of which is Gare, have a problem with this? Obviously it will never happen, but honestly, why not?

[blake]

is walt a saints fan or is this some anti-california thing? sean payton is the worst person in sports

[VaughnP]

I despise the Saints and I also despise the faggot Rams. Right is right. They win pretty much 99% or even more of the time from the point the ball leaves Drew's hand with the typical NFL official observing. The rule changes for defenseless players that were hammered home in the preseason make that an egregious no call for a personal foul even if the ball is nowhere around.

[Behemoth]

Vaughn, the refs were at least a yard away from the action. You can't expect a trained, elite official to be able to see that far, much less you're average man.

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