Upon further review, Michael Vick is still the Eagles quarterback, and the NFL lockout of its regular referees is getting uglier by the minute.
At his day-after post mortem - and has that description ever been more apt? - Andy Reid yesterday appeared at first blush to be leaving open the possibility of a change in quarterback for the Birds. Make sure you check out Jack McCaffery’s column here. By the time he went on his radio show last night, the coach must have realized he was putting a match to kindling in the wake of the Debacle in the Desert, and he offered an endorsement for his struggling starter.
As far as those replacement NFL officials are concerned, they may have hit the breaking point last night.
Unfortunately for the Green Bay Packers, it may have cost them a game.
You can read about the bizarre ending of last night’s nationally televised Monday Night Football game, and what is already being mocked as the ‘Fail Mary that ended the game.
The Seahawks trailed, 12-7, with time for one more play. You know what was coming next. Quarterback Russell Wilson scrambled around, dropped even farther back, then heaved the ball into the end zone.
It looked like a jump ball that was corralled by Packers cornerback M.D. Jennings. Never mind that it appeared that the Seahawks receiver shoved another Packer defender out of the way. Seahawks receiver Golden Tate did manage to get his hand on the throw. When there’s this kind of struggle for possession, the call goes to the offense.
But this wasn’t really close. This sure looked like an interception.
Today it just might look like the disaster so many people warned was looming over the NFL in this labor impasse.
Everyone now will wait to hear from NFL czar Roger Goodell.
Something else struck me as well. We continue to mourn the passing of NFL Films visionary Steve Sabol. It was his firm’s video that lifted the NFL to a work of art.
Now the replacement refs are paining a moustache on the Mona Lisa.
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