Bears at Lions 10/18 at noon on fox

[Outshined_One]

What the hell.

[sneakypower]

i don't know what is and what isn't...the nfl rulebook is laughably broken

[Guest]

[expletive] stupid

[Soul]

They don't even know the rules now

[Guest]

Refs are obviously giving all kinds of makeup calls to the lions for that call against Seattle

[minnesotacubsfan]

Wth happened

[rawaction]

From now on.....that how u play Fuller.

 

Give up the inside on a slant and then desperately try to strip the ball to prevent an easy TD?

 

That's how you defend a short slant unless you know it's coming. Wtf do you expect?

[mul21]

That's absolutely atrocious. He never completed the play.

[UMFan83]

From now on.....that how u play Fuller.

 

Give up the inside on a slant and then desperately try to strip the ball to prevent an easy TD?

 

That's how you defend a short slant unless you know it's coming. Wtf do you expect?

 

I don't know I'm not particularly football smart and obviously have an agenda against Fuller

[mul21]

Wth happened

 

Stupid refs are stupid and still can't interpret the rules correctly.

[rawaction]

Why don't they just ask Mike Perreira the best official ever?

[Outshined_One]

That was less of a catch than the Calvin Johnson not-catch.

[UMFan83]

That's absolutely atrocious. He never completed the play.

 

Not even the worst officiating decision of the weekend for me

[Guest]

The Bears will never ever get another call. And in fact they havent gotten a break in their history ever

[Guest]

[expletive] it, it will all be worth it for another classic Cutler 4th Q comeback

[mul21]

That's absolutely atrocious. He never completed the play.

 

Not even the worst officiating decision of the weekend for me

 

Don't be all bitter because your team has the dumbest punter ever.

[Guest]

Seriously the lions are the luckiest team in the history of sports today. The mets are not even close. Theyre getting every [expletive] call and Stafford is somehow not throwing ints

[rawaction]

Common sense tells me, it can't be a TD for one team if the other team has the ball when the play is over. But maybe it's just me.

[UMFan83]

[UMFan83]

I could maybe sort of understand it if they called it a TD on the field, it was still incorrect but whatever. But they called it a [expletive] INT on the field. There is absolutely no way you can see that replay and say without a doubt that it was a catch. None. Refs are just making up rules on the fly and not calling replays by the book. I'm livid

[UMFan83]

Can we just fire all officials in all sports and start over again?

[PosterToBeNamedLater]

One of my favorite parts of the ken tremendous article on the Toronto/Texas game 5 7th inning was the part about the rule book in baseball vs football:

Both the most- and least-surprising aspect of that moment was that baseball has a rule for it. And, as you noted, the rule — rule 6.03a, as we learned — is literally an EXACT description of what happened. It was the most surprising aspect because, indeed, no one had ever seen it before. It was the least surprising aspect because of course baseball has a rule for this, it has a rule for everything. And of course it was incredibly specific, because all of baseball’s rules are incredibly specific. Baseball rules are the opposite of football rules. Football rules are like …

 

“If a guy kind of grabs a pass but doesn’t really like totally like have it, and then he kind of maybe shimmies around but doesn’t make a like ‘football move,’ or maybe he doesn’t like seem to really like command the ball in a way that I can’t describe but it’s like pornography and I know it when I see it, or something, then let’s go ahead and say it isn’t a catch?”

 

Yes — football rules often end in question marks. Because not even the rule writers believe in them.

 

Baseball rules are like: “There was an A’s-Yankees game in May of 1933 and this insane thing happened and we made a rule to cover that exact situation.” I’m actually surprised it didn’t say:

 

RULE 6.03a: If Russell Martin tries to throw a ball back to a relief pitcher in a tense 7th inning of a deciding playoff game and Shin-Soo Choo is doing that weird thing where he holds his bat out directly in front of him like a divining rod and Martin’s throw bonks off his bat and rolls away, Odor is allowed to score from third.”

[Guest]

jim bob cooter still makes me laugh way too much

[Soul]

More & more, the rules of NFL football are becoming loose guidelines, applied or not applied at the discretion of individual refs & crews

[rawaction]

Just asking for 3rd and long. Good thing Cutler is Jesus