Bottom line: Broncos rookie back Rob Lytle took a handoff on a dive play, only to lose the ball on a head-on collision with safety Jack Tatum at the line of scrimmage. In addition to the non-call, the prior play involving a helmet-to-helmet hit that wasn't call is disputed by fans, too. Worst Calls in NFL History. 10: St. Football official who makes the worst calls for new. Louis Cardinals vs. Kansas City Royals, 1986. The 250-pound Hrbek applied a pretty fierce tag, essentially pushing the 170-pound Gant off the bag. During New England's Week 17 matchup against the Dolphins, the Patriots defense forced Raheem Mostert to fumble. Scene: Three Rivers Stadium, in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, AFC championship game. No, more like "The Music City Mirage.
Even Babe knew he bricked the kick — his head and shoulders snapped around in disgust after the fact. After that: Green Bay's Aaron Jones, the sixth-most productive running back since the start of the 2020 season whose 5. Complaining about The Spot is a bad look. I step out and I point: Purdue ball. Did Bettis call one thing and teammate Carnell Lake call another, as one Lions player claimed? 5 of the Worst Roughing the Passer Calls in NFL History. Photo via Flickr/jrzykat.
But we may have just seen the most egregious call of all-time in this Georgia High School Football Playoff Game. In a game between the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and the Pittsburgh Steelers, there were four roughing-the-passer calls, and the worst one happened when the Bucs' Jason Pierre-Paul touched Ben Roethlisberger. Not knowing if a Kurt Warner pass was actually an incomplete pass or fumble, the refs ruled it to be a fumble, the Steelers recovered and took a knee for the victory. Final score: Saints 31, Vikings 28 (overtime). Seubert had checked in as an eligible receiver. The Worst Call Ever!: The Most Infamous Calls Ever Blown by Referees, Umpires, and Other Blind Officials by Kyle Garlett. With San Francisco quarterback Colin Kaepernick tossing a fade to Michael Crabtree in the end zone, it appeared that the receiver was held by Baltomore's Jimmy Smith as the ball fell incomplete. Or did Bettis call something that sounded like heh-tails, as the audio seemed to confirm? Scene: Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum, Oakland, California, AFC divisional playoffs. As I don't know the rules of the first three so well, it was not alays easy to assess the level of mistake. 4: Atlanta Braves vs. Minnesota Twins, 1991. Fourth down (marked third down): With two seconds left, Johnson spikes the ball. Unknowable: this was an impossible call that was bound to stick with whatever was called on the field, and what was called on the field could have been anything.
The play was undoubtedly a huge feat of athleticism by Bryant and it's a crime that it didn't count. However, there are still errors and no-calls that manage to elude the watchful eyes of all aspects of the video review. Galarraga had every reason to be livid, but he nobly suggested afterward that nobody's perfect. His nearby teammates didn't flinch, assuming the goal would be disallowed. All in all, it was a quick and entertaining read that would have been better if it was just written better, and the amount of events covered were perhaps sacrificed for more details on at least the most significant ones. Former B1G football official calls Bo Pelini the 'worst coach' he's ever worked with. The ball moved slightly upon contact with the artificial turf, but his hands never lost firm grasp of it.
Bottom line: Michael Adams blew in on a corner blitz, knocked the ball out of Aaron Rodgers' right hand and into those of linebacker Karlos Dansby, who ran 17 yards for sudden victory. After days of silence amid foolish threats of a lawsuit, commish Roger Goodell said more rules and video replay changes would be considered. They knew they were in Philly. Translation: the national championship landscape had to be shook. The Huskers didn't lose another game all season. The Lance Armstrong story is extremely dated, written in 2007 before his doping scandal blew up. Final score: Patriots 16, Raiders 13 (overtime). Mike McCoy's Fumble Recovery That Wasn't. The roughing-the-passer rule has been around for decades.
We go in the locker room and I say to my guys, "Do you think I should call Bill (Carollo)? " The wide receiver ran untouched for six points while the grounds shook around them. Another should be that if an official does struggle with pre-kindergarten math, he shouldn't be put in a crew with six other officials dealing with the same problem. Such are the tortured screams of a true sports fan.
Here's one that scored 75 points on that scale because review exists. Scene: MetLife Stadium, East Rutherford, New Jersey, Week 6. Ron Green and Crew's Many Misadventures. Flepargeting (2016 Penn State and 2018 Maryland). APO Address, No Return to Sender (Army 2019). Why: This post isn't to bash officials. The atrociousness of the call is only amplified by its game-changing nature. While the advent of replay challenges, some of the most egregious errors that have happened since have been corrected at the time. The flag thrown for Chris Jones' takedown of Derek Carr in the final quarter of a tight nationally-televised Chiefs-Raiders game was the pinnacle of everything wrong with the concept of roughing the passer. Bottom line: As bad as NFL officials are known to be, this travesty courtesy of replacement refs reminded us how much worse the games would be without real ones. This story was originally published by AskMen.
The moment "job" was out of his mouth, my flag hit its apex. Final score: Steelers, 21, Seahawks 10. 1 Colorado vs. Missouri, "Fifth Down Game, " 1990. It got waved off because the officials ruled his forward progress had been stopped. The dipshits who took a swelteringly stupid SMU game and ratcheted it up to ludicrous with constant reviews and a cascade of increasingly mind-blowing phantom PIs. Every touchdown is subject to review, and that's when the dunderheadedness began.