The poor NO Saints - another week another bad call

What do the damn referees have against the Saints?

I've been stewing all day about that call.

I'm not 100%, but i'd guess that the play launched before the 2:00 warning..... otherwise, i can't see how it wasn't a booth call. Been a Saints fan most of my life and this is one fucked up season.

Like he did last week?

I'm thinkin' probably not...

Though he had room to bitch this week, I'd wager he kept it reserved.

Speaks for itself. Beefed.

I hear he incurred a substantial fine for last week's rant.

Still....

Is it me or was TE Conwell(?) on his back, DOWN! when that fella took the ball from his hands?

Not even a close call!

I watched this one in a tenuous state. Plus we have all the news about Benson's desires. It sucks.

It's never been easy... fuckin' Saints...

What an asshat!

Refurbish the damn Superdome, I am sure the damn building was well insured, so there would be little loss of revenue.

Rat bastard.

http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-20/1129788185303820.xml
http://abcnews.go.com/Sports/ESPNSports/story?id=1241935

He was right. Maybe he should not have used the language, but I would cuss too.

Joe Gibbs was fined as well, for just stating the truth.

A game should not come down to a bad call.

My proposal is that each coach gets a bad call challenge flag, that is not linked to a time out. They should be able to challenge shitty interference, holding, or other similar cases. It will keep the refs honest.

The managers in MLB should get something similar...there have been so many bad calls by umpires this post season.

Each team gets one. I think of how many touchdowns have been called back on crappy interference or holding calls, and how many touchdowns have not been made because interference or holding wasn't called.

I know my team would probably be 5-1, possibly 6-0 were it not for some crappy calls. Granted, turnovers contribute, but when it comes down to a few points one way or the other, a bad call/non call surely can make the difference.

I am sure these problems are league wide. I think there was a bad call against the Chargers that made the difference in the game.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=2201514

Saints owner Tom Benson declared this week that nothing will be decided on the franchise's future until after the season. But ESPN's Chris Mortensen reports that, based on information from key league sources, the team has probably played its last game in New Orleans.

According to Mortensen, San Antonio is a likely home for 2006 and Los Angeles* is the preferred destination beyond that. The NFL could still include New Orleans as a Super Bowl site when the city is reconstructed, and expansion might even be a possibility, but that's 10 to 15 years away.

*ON EDIT-Why not the Cardinals?

If the Saints relocate to San Antonio or elsewhere, New Orleans has only a slim chance of ever seeing another NFL team, according to a major sports consultant.

"If I were advising Mayor Nagin, I would have given him the same advice that someone should have given the mayors of Baltimore and Houston," Ganis said. "Hold on to what you have. Do everything you have to hold on to what you've got, because there's no certainty to what will come next or what will come at all."

Ganis said New Orleans is already viewed as a small market struggling to remain financially competitive -- and most NFL owners oppose expanding beyond the present 32 teams.