I agree totally with HouseCall. The no-call was horrendous. But Vinovich didn't see what happened. And he is one of the best referees in the game.
And I have little patience for those who maintain the no-call was part of a league conspiracy to send Los Angeles to the Super Bowl. If so, you would think the officials might have made a few bad calls against the Saints in the first 58 minutes of the game.
And for those who don't remember, in an overtime game the Saints were flagged three times for 20 yards whereas the Rams were hit with seven penalties for 64 yards. If the league were rigging the officiating to favor Los Angeles, I would expect more than three penalties against the Saints. That crew was letting them play, which is what often happens in a championship game. For the first 58 minutes, I thought the officiating was superb. With the no-call, two officials decided they did not want to make a call that would decide a championship game, even though the violation was so egregious I saw it sitting in the upper box end zone on the other side of the field.
Their decision was terrible. But it was not the product of a conspiracy that would have warranted action by a federal grand jury and would have been the biggest scandal in the history of American sports that would have sent people to prison and would have decimated the market value of the 32 NFL franchises.