NFL Admits Polamulo call was a mistake...

[bfoflcommish]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5252682

[The Big E]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5252682
Would they have said that if Pittsburgh had lost?

[ludo21]

Would they have said that if Pittsburgh had lost?


we will never know, thats for sure.

After a loss this doesnt take much guts, that ref should be fired, or fined imo.

[scorpio]

we will never know, thats for sure.

After a loss this doesnt take much guts, that ref should be fired, or fined imo.


Fired. And a lifetime ban from every stadium in the league. We're not talking about screwing up the cash-out at McDonald's, here.

[Garcia Bronco]

Fire him? I don't know about that.

The NFL has admitted mistakes before. There is a paid position in the league that responds to just these type of things with the teams.

[Bronco_Beerslug]

They had to it was such an obvious call. The NFL doesn't like it when everyone in the country starts calling the game fixed.

[WaffleBoy]

Oh, they did? :wiggle:

The Boy Wonder :super:

[Broncoman13]

NO SHIIT!!!


I imagine the league is thanking their lucky stars right now that Pittsburg won that game...otherwise they'd be looking at millions of fans calling out the "fix". The NFL is lucky the Steelers won!

[ludo21]

http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?t=36534

ban him before a poll starts. Use Existing Threads!!

[Taco John]

http://msn.foxsports.com/nfl/story/5252682

NEW YORK (AP) - The NFL said the referee made a mistake: Troy Polamalu caught the ball.

The league acknowledged Monday that referee Pete Morelli erred when he overturned on replay Polamalu's interception of a Peyton Manning pass Sunday in the playoff game between Pittsburgh and Indianapolis.

Mike Pereira, the league's vice president of officiating, said in a statement that Morelli should have upheld the call, made with 5:26 left in Pittsburgh's win over the Colts.

After the reversal, the Colts went on to score a touchdown and a 2-point conversion, cutting the Steelers' 21-10 lead to 21-18. That led to a wild final few minutes and Pittsburgh clinched its win only when the Colts' Mike Vanderjagt missed a 46-yard field-goal attempt.

On the play, Polamalu made a diving catch of Manning's pass, tumbled with it in his hands and got up to run. When he did, he fumbled the ball, then recovered. Colts coach Tony Dungy challenged and Morelli ruled Polamalu had not completed the catch.

About a dozen TV and scoreboard replays indicated otherwise. Had the call stood, the Steelers would have had the ball at their own 48 with an 11-point lead.

"The definition of a catch - or in this case an interception - states that in the process of making a catch a player must maintain possession of the ball after he contacts the ground," Pereira said.

"The initial call on the field was that Troy Polamalu intercepted the pass because he maintained possession of the ball after hitting the ground. The replay showed that Polamalu had rolled over and was rising to his feet when the ball came loose. He maintained possession long enough to establish a catch. Therefore, the replay review should have upheld the call on the field that it was a catch and fumble.

"The rule regarding the performing of an act common to the game applies when there is contact with a defensive player and the ball comes loose, which did not happen here."

The NFL almost never makes public the result of its reviews, although it did three years ago, when Pereira said officials should have called pass interference against San Francisco on the final play of a wild-card game with the New York Giants. The correct call would have given New York a second chance to kick a game-winning field goal in a 39-38 loss.

After the game, Pittsburgh linebacker Joey Porter said of the ruling:

"I know they wanted Indy to win this game; the whole world loves Peyton Manning. But come on, man, don't take the game away from us like that."

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello had no comment on Porter's statement.

[ludo21]

http://www.orangemane.com/BB/showthread.php?t=36534

Easy call, how did they miss it is my question.

[Bronx33]

Wonder why Morelli didn't uphold the call, very odd IMO.

[Dr. Broncenstein]

Joey Porter is right on...

[Dudeskey]

I'd say he either had a dumbass attack or he blatently ignored the fact he had possession of the int... Even Indy's homer radio announcers (caught the indy feed on Sirius) were puzzled...™

[Goobzilla]

After the game, Pittsburgh linebacker Joey Porter said of the ruling:

"I know they wanted Indy to win this game; the whole world loves Peyton Manning. But come on, man, don't take the game away from us like that."

NFL spokesman Greg Aiello had no comment on Porter's statement.

Rep for Joey Porter telling it like it is. It may cost him 10 large but he did the right thing.

[Dudeskey]

Rep for Joey Porter telling it like it is. It may cost him 10 large but he did the right thing.

A small price to get the truth out IMO...™

[broncsyanks]

my favorite was the penalty that never was when the colts jumped across the line touched the set o lineman of pitt and that there was no call

here was the explanation to bill cowler:

it probably went something like this:

" ehy bill I just got a call from paul yeah and he was just called by archie and they said they had to pull in a favor for the nfl poster boy peyton. bills response: how can there be no flag when there is a stoppage of play?? hey bill did i ever tell you how great i thought you guys were?? yeah and paul said the same thing about you as well. bill-- come on r u kidding me?? nah thats ok bill archie says thanks"

anyway the poster boy lost again. and he showed more class this year then ever when he blamed his own team and threw them under the bus. i thought this was a team game. classless.

[FADERPROOF]

It seems that everyone but that ref knew that it was an interception.

Sucks that the one guy who doesn't got the final word on the call.

[FantomForce]

Damn skippy it was a mistake

[The Big E]

It seems that everyone but that ref knew that it was an interception.

Sucks that the one guy who doesn't got the final word on the call.
Manning was already sitting on the bench as well as the rest of the O and the Steelers D. They knew the truth.

[Hercules Rockefeller]

You'd think the NFL would admit another "blantant" blown call by the refs (according to the media and Pats fans) at the same time as this admission, if in fact the refs did blow the call.