In this country, the United States of America, when someone fails to do their inherent job at a level this egregious, they are typically held accountable by being removed from the position they hold. This particular instance should be no different because of the company Mr. Allen is employed by or because of the nature of the position Mr. Allen holds.
Brad Allen through his mistake just changed the course of the season for multiple teams by providing unfair competitive advantages and disadvantages throughout the playoffs. These advantages will likely influence the outcomes of multiple games. Such a mistake relative to any other field is certainly going to result in someone being held accountable by being removed from their position. The NFL has the unfair ability to rule over this matter with an iron fist. No matter what route the NFL takes to address this error, they are unlikely to be seriously held accountable for their actions. Mr. Allen will likely retain his job and is also likely to officiate a playoff game or games, where another mistake such as this will quite literally end a team’s season. However, through this petition, we are hopeful that the NFL recognizes that its paying fans are what gives it this ability to rule in such a manner, and that the fans do not wish to spend their hard earned money to watch costly procedural errors such as this.
This petition aims to help restore competitive balance and competitive integrity to the game loved by millions all around the world. We the fans do not believe that a procedural, not subjective, error should influence the rest of the season in this way. Mr. Allen, for the players, the coaches, the fans, the competitive integrity of football, and for the core American principle of equality of opportunity, must be removed from his position of head referee.
Also beat writers…I know you’re reading this…
You don’t have to sign this petition or even agree with it, but you can report about its existence. Think of all the clicks you’re going to get from angry fans ready to sign this.
I didn’t comment about what happened last night because it was late and I was tired and I was too angry to think straight. Now that I’ve slept, I’m still too angry to think straight but I’ll give it a go.
It’s pretty obvious that Decker reported as eligible on the play. He said he did, Dan told the officials ahead of the game that they had a play where Decker would declare as eligible and that they would get a heads up about it, and Skipper ran on to the field without saying anything to the officials. That’s three people against one. Three people who know they have to choose their words very carefully if they don’t want to be punished for speaking out.
Either Brad Allen is crooked or he is so incompetent that he told Dallas the wrong player had reported as eligible. Either way he is also a â– â– â– â– â– â– â– liar and he should not be trusted in any other games.
It’s a nice idea… but him being fired solves nothing. Plenty of other corrupt refs to take his place.
It’s not the guy in the zebra outfit to be concerned about. It’s the guy talking into his earpiece from the head office that is far more important here.
Not exactly sure what Penei and Skip were also doing there but we can speculate it was all about subterfuge, one thing is sure, it confused the ref
Ref then announced over PA “70 reports as eligible” thus no matter what, the play was doomed, they were going to get flagged for illegal formation ie, nothing good could have come from snapping the ball
Goff had to have heard (you would think) and with no timeouts left probably should have just taken a delay of game, my god how this board would have erupted for his hide, and be content kick the PAT
Just a real lousy situation, all we and the team can do is put this behind you and move on, but damn…it was there!!
If moral victories were a thing, this game would be one. The Lions played on the road to a team that doesn’t lose in that environment and averages 40 points. In a way, we dominated them.
The only reason we lost was refs on a single play to literally take away our victory. Not a dropped pass, not a dpi that “could have” given us a better shot at winning. Took points off the board.
Everyone on both sides sees what happened now so this isn’t like the Chiefs getting no DPI called against the Packers or the Chiefs player lining up wrong. This is as bad as the Calvin Touchdown against the Bears, if not worse.
