Sorry, don't have an email yet for Goodell or Perella, will work on it. National Football League Inc. 280 Park Ave. New York, NY 10017 (Map) Phone: 212-450-2000 Fax: 212-681-7599 comments@nfl.sportsline.com (1) Be courteous (2) Don't be snide or rude or use vulgar language. (3) State your objections in a well-thought out, succcint manner. If you don't have something written, get it off the GangGreen website. There are tons of threads on the play. Here's what I am using, feel free to borrow it: "Mr. Perella, Mr. Goodell: Every week, I see opposing teams have reviewable catches involving receivers going across the end zone and dragging their feet in-bounds or being pushed out of bounds. Yesterday, a New York Jets receiver was running DOWN THE SIDELINES -- not across the endzone -- caught the ball, and then was slammed out of bounds by 4 feet. It was CLEARLY a touchdown yet the refs missed the call and treated a critical last-second 4th quarter call like a play from the middle of the 2nd quarter. This call cost the NY Jets a victory. This lack of professionalism and adherence to protocol was inexcusable. The referee crew made 3 errors on the play: failing to recognize that Chris Baker (NYJ) was running down the sidelines; failing to recognize that if he was running down the sidelines and ended up out-of-bounds that he must have been pushed; and then failing to reveiw the play. I would like an explanation -- and an apology -- from both the referee crew in Cleveland as well as the NFL office.
I responded to your other post. The Play CANNOT Be reviewed. You just gave the NFL a way out of your gripe by putting that in your letter. They will respond "The play isn't reviewable but thatnk you for your feedback. Enjoy your misery."
The play can be reviewed if the refs are in error and they decide to think it over...it cannot be CHALLENGED by Mangini. They huddled about it and did nothing. Suppose the Jets ran a draw play up the middle for a TD and the refs say the running back ran out of bounds 20 yards before the huddle broke.....??
If you send a letter, at least know what your talking about. It's already been stated numerous times that it is a non-reviewable play. EDIT: You may also want to run a spell-check before hand, too. Review = 'i' before 'e'...not the other way around. Protocol. Not 'protocal'.
They still made the wrong call, whether or not it was reviewable, so contact these douchebags and let them know.
What do you mean, "non-reviewable" ??? If the refs want to huddle to discuss it, they can. If the refs want to call upstairs to get the call right, they can. Mangini cannot challenge the call, agreed. But the refs are supposed to get the call right above all else. They made 3 freaking errors on 1 play !!!
No, The Play is NOT Reviewable because it isn't an error call. It's a JUDGEMENT CALL. Big difference.
You cannot review something that might happen on a replay, and the refs (who are trying to get themselves hired full-time) aren't going to make themselves look bad for the Jets. Besides, the refs hate replay. It bruises their fragile little geek egos. Nothing will be done.
Don't write saying the refs should have reviewed the play, write something asking for the refs to be disciplined. If the refs get away with making shit calls, they have no incentive to get it right next time.
Yeah, but they got the JUDGEMENT in ERROR. If the judgement is wrong, are they supposed to screw one of the teams? They made 3 errors in judgment on the final play. Wanna bet that Simon Wilcotts or whatever his name is on the NFL Network replay isn't heard saying that he was moving OUTSIDE the sidelines ??? The refs look at plays like this all the time that aren't 1/10th as close....this is the biggest garbage since the Immaculate Deception (Raiders vs. Chargers) in 1979 which resulted in the fumble advancement rule change.
