What?! That was the topic of the entire off-season! It was beat into the ground on sports talk radio with guests from all around the league declaring the Saints got screwed over and over and over again! A new rule (while having no teeth) was instigated over the uproar involving that play!

However, as badly as I was destroyed by that horrendous "no-call" I have never believed there was any premeditation or directive involved. I am convinced it was the fault of part-time officials that were scared stiff of making a call that would absolutely determine the outcome of the game. The game was over for sure had they made the call. One wanted to make the call but was talked out of it by the other close by official. They swallowed their whistles while most likely praying that it wouldn't come back to bite them. They were wrong. It was a total ****-up on all counts, but I have no belief at all it was because the "league" wanted a certain outcome.

The Saints were not cheated because the league wanted it. The Saints were screwed over because the league has continued to march out incompetent part-time officials in a $14 billion dollar annual revenue league.

Impossible for die-hards to accept, but outside of #WhoDatNation, only die-hard NFL fans were aware of the non-PI, and basically shrug their shoulders of it...

It was not nearly covered as it would have been had it happened to one of the Golden Eight (G'nats, Pack, 49ers, Steelers, Eagles, Cowboys, Rams, Ravens)...

Golden 11. Add the Patriots, Chiefs and now the Bucs.

I watch ESPN's Get Up in the morning. They literally will spend a week cycling the same 3 stories from this group than talk about anything else in the NFL. This week's three stories: Where will Julio be traded? What will happen with ARod? Can the Chiefs go 20-0?

I was amazed that it got broken up by the 17 YO girl who knocked the bear off the wall to save her dogs.

I do have to admit that back with the Rams shame happened, the national media did talk about it for a bit.

SFIAH

Exactly. Because of my schedule I sometime force myself to watch Florio and Simms on PFT just to observe. It’s nothing but Rogers! Simms has such a Fascination with him and calling him the greatest of all time that it is creepy! Peter king is a guest on Friday. He’s not bad in my opinion.

Why can’t they spend 3-5 minutes one day a week talking about each team in each conference division? For example, Monday is North day and they spend 3 minutes each on a quick rundown of the 8 NFC/AFC North divisions. That’s half an hour on mentioning, discussing, and including an entire 2 division’s worth of teams and their fans that you normally wouldn’t. That still leaves you 1+ hours to kiss Rogers’ (both Aron and Gotohell) ass each day!

P.S. I predict that AG is going to say it’s because of the money.

I follow FAR more outlets than satellite radio. That play was the talk of the off-season far and wide. As I pointed out it even prompted the implementation of a new (toothless) rule.

You might want to check out Moving The Chains on NFL Radio with Pat Kirwan and Jim Miller. They go through every team division by division giving every team the same amount of discussion on several topics including personnel groups, offensive and defensive schemes, etc. They spend the entire off-season doing this. They also break down personnel groupings and things like gap assignments and such.

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Impossible for die-hards to accept, but outside of #WhoDatNation, only die-hard NFL fans were aware of the non-PI, and basically shrug their shoulders of it...

It was not nearly covered as it would have been had it happened to one of the Golden Eight (G'nats, Pack, 49ers, Steelers, Eagles, Cowboys, Rams, Ravens)...

Not sure what you watch and listen to but it was a major topic for months everywhere. It was on ESPN radio and NFL Radio and more online print sites than I can count. Kept seeing it on TV, as well. They made a rule change because of the pressure (although it was a useless attempt) from all across the spectrum.

Not sure how you are missing the boat on this one, JP?

Well, I wasn't obsessing over it for one thing, and I wasn't looking for it either as I felt we had out chances and shouldn't have let it come down to Tommylee...

Credit to Payton for walking into the press conference and immediately, effectively deflecting any criticism of his game plan, play calling blaming loss on one call...

But I'm sure a five minute segment on satellite radio played over and over for twelve hours would seem like everywhere to the obsessed fan...

Within 24 hrs it was flushed from the National NFL News Cycle and it was Patriots v Rams and all the predictable scripted stories for that upcoming SuperBowl...

Most other fans hate our Saints anyway because of Goodell's #fakenews #bountygatebeatdown and considered it #karma or could care less...

Other than Local News (WWL, WDSU, WWL-AM, WNOL) kept stirring the pot in an otherwise slow news cycle, it faded quickly 'cause we weren't the G'nats, Packers et al...