Packers Win, Regular Refs Blow Calls

The Packers beat the Saints.

Great.

The replacement refs were gone and the regular refs, the professionals, were back on the field.

Woo hoo! Long live the regular refs! They're Grrrrreat!

Order is restored. The game is back on track. The rules are being fairly applied.

WRONG!

Although it all worked out in the end, the regular refs screwed the Packers.

From the Green Bay Press-Gazette:

The regular refs returned Sunday but it didn't take long for the Packers and their fans to feel irregular once again.

Missed calls, blown calls, replays that didn’t overturn apparent wrong calls on the field left everyone feeling like nothing had really changed since last Monday’s disaster in Seattle where a wrong call by the replacement refs on the final play stole the game from Green Bay.

After some initial cheers from the fans, it didn’t take long for the regular refs to fall out of favor.

On the Saints’ second possession Marques Colston pushed off on Packers’ safety Morgan Burnett — who fell down — in the end zone just before catching a 20-yard TD from Drew Brees.

"It’s part of the game," said Burnett. “Sometimes you get calls that go your way and sometimes you don’t. In my opinion I got pushed, because I fell."

It didn’t end there.

...The biggest controversy arose after the Packers took a 28-27 lead, kicked off and caused a fumble when Dezman Moses’ helmet separated the ball from return man Darren Sproles, with Moses recovering.

But the referees ruled Sproles down by contact, which replays showed was a clear error.

And so it goes.

The regular referees, the union guys, the professionals, aren't perfect.

There was a real possibility that another victory would be stolen from the Packers due to a blatantly blown call.

There are replays and reviews for a reason. It's so frustrating when it's obvious a ruling is wrong.

The "regular referees" are damn lucky their failure to call that fumble a fumble didn't decide the game.

Another thing--

It really ticks me off when I hear the Packers are 2-2.

That's not right. Everybody knows the Packers are really 3-2. If the Packers win their next 12 games, ending the regular season with a 14-2 record, it will still be wrong and I will still be ticked off.