The official 2008 NFL season thread

Right!!! that's the way i think about!!!!

 

Bucs have to take care of the @#$%! Panthers.  On my way to tailgate!

 

Sadly, that safety wound up being the difference in the game; although The Vikings ran out the last minute of the clock in order to kick the field goal, rather than go for the touchdown, so it is possible that they would have won anyways.

 

It'll be interesting to see if there is any fallout with the officiating.  The Lions truly got hosed in yesterday's game.  I was listening on the radio to our homer announcers, but they were quite furious when the officials didn't overturn the Calvin Johnson's fumble call when the Lions requested a review.  According to them, both his knee and his head hit the ground before the ball came out; on Talk Radio this morning someone called in and said that the ball had been knocked loose when Calvin was hit and that is why they called it a fumble, but then they said that he still had both hands on the ball when he hit the ground.  I think that call probably cost the Lions at least a field goal.

 

The big call that they were complaining about though was the pass interference call that led to Minnesota's game winning field goal.  Minnesota had 2nd and 20, and according to the announcer the contact was the type that happens on 90 percent of the plays that never gets called.  Especially in key situations near the end of the game.  Again, I didn't see it, but the homer announcers went on for the next 5 plays complaining about that call and kind of forgot to announce the rest of the game. 

 

On the Talk Radio this morning a caller said that the officials blew 3 big calls, but I am not sure what the 3rd call was.  Oh well, I guess on the "bright" side the chance to go 0 and 16 is still alive.  Might as well do something that nobody else has ever done before.