# NFL Week 3 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [September 20, 2012, 3:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273 "2012-09-20T15:26:58Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 9
**Author:** ![Gangster\_Octopus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a8b319/32.png) [@Gangster\_Octopus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gangster_Octopus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/161 "2012-09-25T03:51:08Z")
Robbery ---
**Author:** ![unwashed\_brain](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/a9adbd/32.png) [@unwashed\_brain](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/unwashed_brain)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/162 "2012-09-25T03:53:06Z")
LOL, this is awesome. ---
**Author:** ![MOIDALIZE](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e274bd/32.png) [@MOIDALIZE](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MOIDALIZE)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/163 "2012-09-25T03:53:37Z")
How did they not see the blatant push-off by Tate? He did it right in front of the ref! ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/164 "2012-09-25T03:54:23Z")
Just. Wow. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/165 "2012-09-25T03:54:49Z")
Un. Fucking. Real. I’m a Bears fan, happy to see the Packers lose a game. But that was probably one of the worst screw jobs I’ve ever seen. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/166 "2012-09-25T03:55:43Z")
First time I’ve seen a game won by a reach-around. ---
**Author:** ![2gigch1](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/2gigch1/32/3313_2.png) [@2gigch1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/2gigch1)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/167 "2012-09-25T03:57:29Z")
Wow. A clusterfuck of unbelievable proportions. Also a bump here of a [Pit](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=666587) I started about a foul bitch of a Twitterer re: Torrey Smith ---
**Author:** ![Morbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/morbo/32/389_2.png) [@Morbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Morbo)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/168 "2012-09-25T03:58:09Z")
Just fucking pay them already. I can’t watch this product. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 3:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/169 "2012-09-25T03:58:18Z")
To Gruden and everyone else saying this is the worst call ever deciding a game, I call BULLSHIT. There was a **much worse** call that decided a _playoff_ game by the real refs. 2002 wildcard game, Giants vs 49ers. So I don’t want to hear about how much of a travesty this is and how the replacement refs are an abomination. Real refs sometimes do worse in much bigger games. ---
**Author:** ![voltaire](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/voltaire/32/313_2.png) [@voltaire](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/voltaire)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/170 "2012-09-25T04:01:41Z")
So, can/will they reverse this? ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/171 "2012-09-25T04:03:42Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Missed the game, just saw the result. WTF happened? I thought it was over after Seattle couldn’t convert on four down with just under 2 minutes left. Well…let’s see. Last play of the game. WR Tate raped one defender, but per the butt sex rule, that blatant offensive pass interference was ignored, then GB DB Jennings intercepted in the endzone, Tate somehow managed to touch the ball with a fingernail (well, ok, maybe most of his hand) as he and four Packers fell to the turf, one ref signals touchback, like he should on an interception, another ref signals TD. On review, they announce the call on the field stands…apparently meaning the TD call, not the correct call. Then a couple of Seahawks do postgame interviews while the Packers leave the field, then the Packers come back for a mandatory extra point play, and basically stand there while Seattle kicks the meaningless extra point. Biggest Mongolian cluster fuck I’ve seen. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/172 "2012-09-25T04:04:41Z")
I found a video [here](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEqpcBKyY_k). (Well, for the time being, before it gets pulled.) Yipes. ---
**Author:** ![Saint\_Cad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/saint_cad/32/18907_2.png) [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/173 "2012-09-25T04:06:27Z")
I think that it was perfectly fair for that non-call on the blatant defensive pass interference with 40 seconds left to be made up by the simultaneous possesion ruling at the end. ---
**Author:** ![Icarus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/icarus/32/72_2.png) [@Icarus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Icarus)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/174 "2012-09-25T04:06:34Z")
That was some entertaining historic sports TV, that was! :eek: ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/175 "2012-09-25T04:07:08Z")
If the result is reversed, I’m pretty sure it’ll be the first time that’s ever happened. So _highly_ unlikely. ---
**Author:** ![zoog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/7ea924/32.png) [@zoog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoog)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/176 "2012-09-25T04:09:11Z")
> [@fiddlesticks](#): > > If the result is reversed, I’m pretty sure it’ll be the first time that’s ever happened. So _highly_ unlikely. Yeah, the NFL would have to do something totally unprecedented, and in so doing would have to admit that the replacement refs completely screwed the pooch on this one. So unlikely in the extreme. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/177 "2012-09-25T04:09:39Z")
As if it weren’t bad enough, the replay shows that the official who signaled touchdown had no view of the struggle for the ball. He just THOUGHT he saw the GB player rip the ball out of Tate’s hands some seconds after they hit the ground. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/178 "2012-09-25T04:12:03Z")
> [@TonySinclair](#): > > He just THOUGHT he saw the GB player rip the ball out of Tate’s hands some seconds after they hit the ground. Maybe Tate is on his fantasy team. ---
**Author:** ![fiddlesticks](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddlesticks/32/18129_2.png) [@fiddlesticks](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fiddlesticks)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/179 "2012-09-25T04:12:33Z")
[Animated GIFs](http://www.sbnation.com/nfl/2012/9/25/3386230/packers-vs-seahawks-hail-mary-video-replacement-refs) in case the linked video gets flagged. ---
**Author:** ![Enginerd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/bcef8e/32.png) [@Enginerd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enginerd)\ **Post date:** [September 25, 2012, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273/180 "2012-09-25T04:13:06Z")
> [@EllisDee](#): > > To Gruden and everyone else saying this is the worst call ever deciding a game, I call BULLSHIT. There was a **much worse** call that decided a _playoff_ game by the real refs. 2002 wildcard game, Giants vs 49ers. > > So I don’t want to hear about how much of a travesty this is and how the replacement refs are an abomination. Real refs sometimes do worse in much bigger games. There’s a big difference between blowing one big call in one big game and blowing 10 calls in every game. Do you honestly believe the replacement officials are doing an acceptable job, or did you just want to take this opportunity to whine a little a decade after the fact? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273.md?page=8) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nfl-week-3/635273.md?page=10)