A controversial call in the first half of Sunday's Washington-Carolina game, when a touchdown by cornerback Chris Culliver was called back after he was flagged for unnecessary roughness on Greg Olsen when officials deemed he had a helmet-to-helmet hit on the tight end, swung the momentum of a tie game in the Panthers' favor.

After the loss, one Washington veteran had an interesting theory as to why the key call went against his team, as defensive end Jason Hatcher suggested that perhaps the team's Redskins nickname plays a role in the calls they get or don't get from officials....

“I’m not saying this out of character to get fined, but it is what it is. I don’t know if it’s about the name or what, but at the same time, we play football too. We work our butt off too. Don’t single us out. At the end of the day, it’s the name. Don’t worry about the name – we players and we work our butt off too. I’m just frustrated with it. We shouldn’t have to be punished for that. It’s been every game, calls after calls that should’ve been made in our favor, but it goes to them. It’s just not right. We in the league too. We’re National Football players. We got a team too. We go out there, and we sweat and work hard too. I don’t give a crap about the name. We are players. We’ve got feelings too, and we want to win too.”

That's seems like a reach worthy of Stretch Armstrong from Hatcher. Bad calls are made in the NFL every day - heck, the officials initially called a Ted Ginn touchdown pass an incomplete pass only to overturn it when the Panthers challenged - and are part of the game.