Bill Vinovich

saintfan1972 said
Bill wasn't saying it shouldn't have been called. If you read closely you will see he says it was a foul. Is there bad officials and maybe some get paid to blow calls. I'm sure there is. What he was saying is playoff games in the NFL aren't officiated the way regular season games are. But like he said that shouldve been called.
But if people are going to point fingers at officials, point them at the right person. That call is not and will never be the head referees call. Period. End of story. Won't happen. So blame the 2 guys that didn't call it. Fine. But it wasn't Vinovichs fault. He may have missed the hit on Drew. That is his call. But put the blame where it goes.
And again, playoff games are called different. They just are.
1 more thing. We shouldn't have blown a big lead in that game to put ourselves in that position also.

And like I said, yes playoff games are called looser than regular season games. Regardless of who’s call it was, at some point “good will” should have creeped into Bill’s mind, that a team was getting blatantly screwed. He could’ve got together with the other officials and discussed it, until they got it right. There’s no rule against officials getting together to make a good/bad judgment call. If someone was an official on that field, at that moment, they are ALL to blame. If he’s the head official, how his crew performs, falls at his feet. I run a crew of 160 people. What they do and how they perform is on me. You think my regional manager wants to hear “yeah, that was someone else, not me”? It’s in my handbook, I am reliable for what my crew does. Same should go for those officials.