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This is what you get when the Refs decide the NFC Champs
My Eyeballs | 2/3/2019 | Self

Posted on 02/03/2019 8:12:40 PM PST by Positive

Yeah, I'm from Louisiana.


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To: Jim Noble

“Do you really think Notre Dame was a top-four team?”

Yeah, I do. 12-0 through the regular season, only to lose to the eventual national champion by a spread that was better than what Alabama suffered in its defeat.

Hatred of Notre Dame is so...unseemly.


101 posted on 02/04/2019 6:21:41 AM PST by ought-six (Multiculturalism is national suicide, and political correctness is the cyanide capsule.)
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To: BradyLS

“Sometimes, aren’t corpses laid to rest with their arms crossed over their chest.”
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I hadn’t thought of that!

Also, some of the black New England players appeared to be clutching the top part of their jerseys.


102 posted on 02/04/2019 7:34:56 AM PST by july4thfreedomfoundation (President Trump is right! The media IS the enemy of the people!)
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To: murron

LOL!


103 posted on 02/04/2019 9:00:59 AM PST by rxsid (HOW CAN A NATURAL BORN CITIZEN'S STATUS BE "GOVERNED" BY GREAT BRITAIN? - Leo Donofrio (2009))
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To: scbison

Lowest TV audience since 2009.


104 posted on 02/04/2019 9:05:00 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: jjotto

Remember, the NFL is an entertainment event not a sporting event.. With these ratings, the NFL will adjust. I expect Belichek probably be “retiring”


105 posted on 02/04/2019 9:25:49 AM PST by scbison
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To: Positive

There were two questionable calls in the Chief-Pats game as well - overturning the Refs call about a turnover on a punt and a roughing the passer call. I think that a Chief-Saints game would have been far more interesting. I guarantee you there would have been more than 16 total points on the board.


106 posted on 02/04/2019 9:29:05 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: scbison

Yep. And as entertainment, it goes far beyond TV ratings for games. The NFL $15 billion in revenue might not be half of what the NFL generates in economic activity.


107 posted on 02/04/2019 9:33:27 AM PST by jjotto (Next week, BOOM!, for sure!)
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To: BenLurkin

While that did happen, is this picture indicative of that moment? Why would you have a tribute for a fallen officer with 4:48 on the clock at ANY time during the game? Something there doesn’t pass the smell test.


108 posted on 02/04/2019 11:09:06 AM PST by the lone haranguer (All civilized men love peace, but all truly civilized men must despise pacifism.)
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To: lasereye

Agreed. Watching the “illegal” reciever pick-blocks that opened Edelman on the Pat’s last two drives against the Chiefs show that the refs were allowing a lot of contact in favor of the Pats. Bigger markets, bigger $$$ (or so Goodell hoped)


109 posted on 02/04/2019 11:13:08 AM PST by SparkyBass
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To: HamiltonJay

I guess I’m old school. I sometimes kinda enjoy seeing what good defensive coordinators conjure up (and the players execute) to stymie what are both in this case obviously good offenses.)

The up the middle “two yards and a cloud of dust” plays are often not so exciting, but, overall,the chess game the sides are playing is on a pretty high level, at this level of competition. (Ok, so I used to play chess, knights and queens and all that, a lot!)


110 posted on 02/04/2019 12:42:21 PM PST by Paul R.
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To: rawcatslyentist

I can’t disagree.


111 posted on 02/04/2019 1:51:49 PM PST by Psalm 144 (2016 Election Tampering: a weasel borne plague originating in the UK.)
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To: bluejean

You are right. The Rams defense was great. Even when the Patriots made their adjustments, it was a fight to get yards. NE was able to finally get down the field and score more than a field goal attempt. Rams had that one drive but still never looked comfortable.


112 posted on 02/04/2019 7:25:59 PM PST by ilgipper (The mob only destroys. Never creates.)
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To: Positive

I lost interest in NFL at least a year before the kneeling started. One of the main reasons was the sudden realization that the refs can call a penalty on virtually every play - therefore they decide who wins. It’s all just a reality TV show.


113 posted on 02/04/2019 7:52:38 PM PST by Some Fat Guy in L.A. (Still bitterly clinging to rational thought despite it's unfashionability)
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To: chris37
The no call by the officials in the NFC Championship game was so obvious that the NFL has changed the rule with regard to pass interference...it is no longer a "judgment call" they can now video review Pass Interference.
114 posted on 04/15/2019 4:05:33 AM PDT by Positive (Nothing is sadder than to see a beautiful theory murdered by a gang of brutal facts.)
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