"Enough is enough. My ongoing defense of the replacement referees, from the preseason on, has been that they haven't done anything quite as awful as when the "real" referees simultaneously signaled in opposite directions during a fumble recovery last year. Obviously, that's no longer the case. Monday night's dramatic ending to the Packers-Seahawks game officially saw the league's replacement officials complete their trip from irritating sideshow to spectacular main event by directly changing the outcome of a game on a questionable call, one that was delivered with their reliable combination of befuddlement and insouciance. It was the first time that the replacement officials had turned a win into a loss by making the wrong call on the final play of the game, unless you believe that the same thing happened with the field goal that ended the Patriots-Ravens contest on Sunday night, in which case that just happened in consecutive games. You often hear about games in which the team who got the ball last won. This was a game in which the team who had the opportunity to be screwed last lost."
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| L: Touchback! R: Touchdown! |
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