hawksfansinceday1":3budvquo said:
So does he have something against the Saints? The city of N.O.?
The back judge that called the OPI on Darrell Jackson in Super Bowl XL*, the first of many momentum crushing calls against the Hawks in that game was born and raised and at that point still lived in Pittsburgh, PA. (likely still dioes)
You know, I’m really not sure. Before the beginning of last season, we had a 5-2 record with him as a referee. He did the first Rams game last year and his crew called it relatively evenly but were very lax on holding calls (which as y’all are familiar, the Rams hold A LOT).
Our record is now 6-4 with him but 3 of those 4 loses are from some straight up bull**** calls: the no-call, that OPI call, and
in 2016 against the Broncos they blocked an XP that would’ve gave us the lead and they returned it for a 2-pointer but the dude steps out of bounds and they don’t call it and then refuse to overturn it because the guy has white cleats on and you can’t “clearly see he’s out of bounds” despite our entire sideline seeing it. :34853_doh:
I’m just glad that after that bull**** in the NFC Championship that we’ll likely never have to see him again and he gets the Walt Coleman/Raiders treatment.