In a game of this caliber? Just terrible.

They need to build up the fan base there. Nothing better than a SB appearance. Take it frombthis Eagles Fan.

Their offense has been impressive all year.

and could have won the game.
But they were given it by the Refs.

And I wanted them to win

Still ranks as one of the worst officiating calls of all time.

In the Pats/Chiefs game. Pats will be given the game.

but I am expecting the refs to give it to the pats

Lose 7 games and they're still fucking Super Bowl contenders? GTFO! If they win it will definitely because the refs gave it to them.

NUMEROUS calls like that for them throughout the year

There are a couple of posters here who really believe in conspiracy theory.
As near as I can tell, the networks or the NFL or the Illuminati decreed that the Saints throw an interception so they would lose the game.

the Refs gave the game to the Rams.

Overtime should never have happened.

Smh.

Didn't anticipate it in the NFL, but there it was with the no-call. LA is a much bigger market than NO.

The entire state of Louisiana plus much of Mississippi and the entire Gulf coast to mobile are saints fans.

With 3 other teams in California and lots of other sports teams it could be close.

LA sure can’t seem to keep a team.

Shitty ending.

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the "no calls" were instrumental in their win. Works both ways.

WINNER TAKE ALL GAME. That matters.

NO and LA tied at 13-3, turn that NO win into a loss and they don't get home field advantage for the entire playoffs.

every team in every professional sport has examples of times they got a break from a bad or no-call and times they got screwed...

a championship.

Add 1 more loss to NO, they are 12-4 vs LA 13-3 and LA get playoff home field advantage, not NO. Further, NO is then tied with Chi at 12-4 records and Bears get a 1st round bye based on their better NFC conference record.

It wasn't a TD right at the end that was taken from them.

Yes, very likely they win, but not "clearly."

Side note: in the football side of your analogy, I hate the Saints (actually I hate Sean Payton and can't believe he is still allowed to coach after bountygate), so....

the Saints could have run the clock down to :05 before kicking a FG.
They would have won.

yeah, I asume.

But nice try.

Nope. They could have won it in OT. They had the ball and were moving it until Brees threw tHat INT. Refs had nothing to do with that INT.

So it wasn't "clearly" a win. A very likely win, for sure. There were still things that needed to happen.

Guaranteed? Nope. All kinds of crazy crap has happened. That's all I'm saying. It's not like they overturned a winning TD at the end of regulation. That's a guaranteed win.

Minimum, chip shot FG with no time left

Game over

Which has, and does, happen.

And that puts the onus of a loss on the team, not the refs

The pass interference at 1:47 could have not have been more egregious.

Might have given them more points. It wasn't like it was a perfectly called game until that point.

I am sure you enjoy completely worthless pasttimes as well.

the game was metafore for it. Not a comparison of injustices.

And now that the chiefs are losing wifey and I are boycotting the super bowl and will be going away for the weekend

Link to tweet

was so blatant and the ref was so close. The Saints were robbed.

penalty that wasn't called on the Saints.

But yeah, totally like the 2016 election.

go to excuse.

They could have fumbled. They could have run the clock down and missed the field goal. They had a chance in OT to win it with a TD. They didn’t do that.

95% they would win.

it was pass interference

They don’t.

It was a bang-bang play that looked like no PI in real time. None of the officials called it. Had one ref called it it would have been reviewed and PI would have been confirmed. But none of them called it so it wasn’t reviewable.

Didnt have to watch it from prison, so that evens it out some.

My wife doesn't like football. She asked why I hated the Saints so much. I said "2009. I'm pissed that Sean Peyton gets to coach in the NFL." She said "Isn't it time to let it go?" I told her I was still pissed about the Cowboys push-off in 1975.

F@¢€ Drew Pearson.

KC/NO would have done just as well ratings-wise.

NFL has instant replay, is it not allowed in some cases?

Pass Interference is a judgement call, it's not subject to challenge.

....with over a minute to go. Most likely it still would have gone to overtime. I'm a Saints fan (in the NFC), it wasn't a good call, but it probably didn't cost them the game.

Remember, the Saints got the ball first in the overtime. They had every chance to win, but were intercepted.

to about 4 seconds and kicked a gimme field goal from inside the 10 yard line.

Even if they didn’t score a TD, by the time they scored the field goal, there would be far more time shaved off. The Rams likely would not have enough time to get close enough to kick.

they could have run down the clock to 5 seconds before kicking the FG. No time for LA to comeback.

The Jets had a TD taken from them on a bad call that could've beat the Patriots.
I cant count the number of times the falcons have had a late game no-call cost them a game.
If the Saints even played close to their normal game, they wouldve won regardless.

How to fight back, don't watch the stupid bowl.

Low ratings always wins.

watch another Brady SB.

Bears vs Colts. And I did not even make it to the 4th quarter. Another horrible officiated game.

Why isn't anyone talking about that?

the non-roughing the passer call'

Yeah, that was bad, but they still had half a field to stop Brady.

But the Saints had a 99% chance of winning if that call is made.

But nobody wants to fuck with the official narrative so down the memory hole they go

this SB will always be tainted.

I've stopped watching any SB when New England is playing... I didn't even see last year, either.

I wasn't going to watch last year, but glad I saw them lose.