Fans convinced Texans-Lions game was 'rigged' after controversial call

They’re right, the NFL IS rigged.

…and it’s our turn. We’ve been the Washington Generals for 60+ years getting whooped by the rigged Harlem Globetrotters.

We’ve paid our dues. Get in line Texan fans, your day will come.

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That’s what I’ve been saying, good teams get calls. Unless you pick a fight with the refs. Which is why I’m very much against that. I hope the Lions catch on that we want to treat these guys right, not because they’re great people, but for our own interests.

The Lions are currently a media darling team and the winds of bad calls are changing.

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I don’t begrudge fans for complaining about truly bad calls, but come on. That was a bang-bang situation that doesn’t even look bad in still shots / slo-mo.

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I was basing it off what the guy said that came on during the game. Not sure exactly how the rule is written. But IMO it should be written how I stated above.

  1. It wasn’t a PI because AA touched the ball.
  2. Even if AA didn’t, it’s still iffy, the WR just stopped his route early because the pass was so f’ing horrible.
  3. See above, that pass should have never been thrown, it was awful. I’m glad a team isn’t bailed out by the refs over a horrid pass.
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I think if Anzalone wasn’t in position to tip the ball out of reach of the receiver, it might have been called interference. The receiver was never going to catch that pass because of Anzalone’s actions. Since calling PI on Arnold was iffy, I think the refs made the right non-call.

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Wow… there sad because they feel the ref’s messed up and cost them the game.
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They had 5 INT’s !!!

This game shouldn’t have been close. The loss wasn’t because of one PI call.

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Oh there’s plenty of arrogant chuckleheads around, for sure. It’s just most of them aren’t Texans fans lol.

And honestly most people consider El Paso to be in a different state, it’s like a 10 hour drive from anywhere

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They do that all the time on under-thrown deep balls and get interference calls, but the difference with those is the CB isn’t looking back or going for the ball. Clearly Arnold is.

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Except Sunland New Mexico

Right, I forgot the qualifier “in Texas.” It’s like a 10 hour drive from anywhere in Texas.

Pretty close to Las Cruces too.

They missed a helmet to helmet on Goff and ahit on Montgomery out of bounds so I think it balances out.

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Where is @Jman? I figured he’d celebrating this 8 and 1 run. Haven’t seen him around? You good brother? I was only kidding about the cage match battle. :smiley:

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I live in a Phoenix and I’m 3 hours closer to El Paso than Dallas is.

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The Daily Mail is an insidious rag, and sadly it’s becoming more prominent in the US too.

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The refs missed a blatant helmet to helmet on Goff too, so as far as I’m concerned, it’s a wash.

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