That play where the refs ignored Abram's TO signal while being hurt was utterly despicable.

It's also a rule for the officials to stop the play for a player injury! Dude was in obvious distress well before the snap!

Edit: Your assertion is only true for time outs called from the side-line, ANY PLAYER IN THE FIELD OF PLAY CAN CALL A TIME OUT.

That's true. But I really don't think that Abram was hurt. I think he tried to call the time out, which should have been granted, and then when they didn't grant the time out he went down thinking they would call a timeout for an injury. That's how it looked to me. He didn't grab his back until after he tried to call TO several times.