Saints What was your PERSONAL reaction to the “no-call” vs the Rams? (3 Viewers)

[sfidc3]

Ipswich Town - we were relegated from the Premier League in 2002 and last season got promoted from the 3rd tier back into the Championship, where we're currently 2nd and playing the best football we've seen for over 20 years. Hopefully we can sustain the good start!

As a Stoke fan I can sympathize!!!!

 

[sainthood]

It made me feel incredibly New Orleanian. That is to say we are part of the colonized America, service folk America, not the fortune 500 set, not the city anyone with money wants to see on the marquee of the big time Superbowl show. Take our oil, seafood, sugar, rice, pollute our water, air to make your chemicals, drink in our French Quarter, screw in our hotels and leave without paying us much in taxes or fair compensation for the pleasure.

We are a runt if not the runt of the league playing dress up as the pure bred. We got lucky Brees stayed here out of sympathy for his recovered bum shoulder that made him consider us in the first place. Here Drew Brees threw to a reject undrafted shortest of short Tommy Lee Lewis who got up and slumped in what he knew what we all knew: that uniform in that body in our Dome was not entitled to any benefit of the doubt or fair hand. Jerry Rice and Montana or Young beating us down for years get that call 1,000 out of a 1,000 times. For me the NOLA no call was the moment any delusions that anyone in the league office or anybody out of New Orleans saw us as anything but a bunch of runts to be pushed aside because we had once won a Superbowl or had Brees as our quarterback died.

 

[Saint Greg]

Went back to the hotel and laid in bed the rest of the day/night.

 

[sainthood]

The other play that gets me is the no hands to the face on the pressure of Brees by Dante Fowler in overtime on the interception. Not getting that call after the NOLA no call is somehow an even greater indictment for me. The whole world saw them blow the first call and this was a definite chance to correct it and do right by the Saints and yet a hall of fame quarterback again gets no call.

Interception in overtime

 

[Blazing Saint]

The other play that gets me is the no hands to the face on the pressure of Brees by Dante Fowler in overtime on the interception. Not getting that call after the NOLA no call is somehow an even greater indictment for me. The whole world saw them blow the first call and this was a definite chance to correct it and do right by the Saints and yet a hall of fame quarterback again gets no call.

Interception in overtime

"When it rains, it pours."

 

[ELLIASJWILLIAMS]

That we got shafted on purpose

 

[Brennan77]

I was in the dome. It was surreal. Leaving the dome was like leaving a funeral. I think that was the beginning of my apathy for the nfl. I used to watch all games that I could. Now it’s just the saints. On a plus side, I don’t get as over emotional during saints games as I used to.

Same. I didn't sleep that night. It was like I was in mourning for the loss of something I loved. I just don't believe in the nfl anymore that way. It's not worthy of the emotional investment.

 

[SaintsFanInLA]

I have never been so mad at a sporting event in my entire life. Sleep was hard to come by for days and days and days. A white hot seething rage consumed me. And the fact that the head of officiating called to apologize to Payton made it worse even though we ALL knew it. I said at the time if I were Payton, I would NOT have let my players back on the field. I simply wouldn't. That call changed EVERYTHING. The official makes that call, it's first and goal inside of the ten with under a minute. We could take 2-3k knees and attempt a 20+ yard FG. Maybe it gets blocked, but maybe it doesn't. The chances are, we would have gone to the Super Bowl.

It was the NFCCG, had he not put his team on the field until the refs talked to the Head of Officials. It would have been an embarrassment but it literally would have been NO worse than what happened.

Now, of COURSE, the officials would have retaliated at being shown up and we would have definitely lost the Super Bowl with crazy @ssed calls but SO WHAT?! At least we would have fought the BS.

That No Call, solidified the curse of the Saints for me. We always seem to be on the wrong end of probability-busting events. The ONLY one bigger is Atlanta's 28-3 collapse, in fact, had you told me that this event would happen to a team, I would have assumed it would have been us.

 

[dvdman]

If Tommy Lee lays and stays on the turf we win that game. No way, the officials don’t throw a flag. With that being said it shouldn’t have depended on that. The NFL had an agenda that season and it did not include the Saints making it to and winning the SB.

 

[Dome50]

The other play that gets me is the no hands to the face on the pressure of Brees by Dante Fowler in overtime on the interception. Not getting that call after the NOLA no call is somehow an even greater indictment for me. The whole world saw them blow the first call and this was a definite chance to correct it and do right by the Saints and yet a hall of fame quarterback again gets no call.

Interception in overtime

People don't talk about that play enough IMO. Obviously not in the same stratosphere as the no call....but it bugs me so much because you'll hear other NFL fans say we still had a chance in overtime but threw the interception (i.e. like we still had a fair chance but blew it, trying to minimize the impact of the no call). But the video clearly shows Dante Fowler face palm Brees in the facemask HARD which is the pressure that lead to the INT. That gets called roughing the passer 9 times out of 10 in today's NFL.

Anyway, I was at that game and was almost in a state of shock. When the no call happened it was so obvious to everyone...and I'll give credit to the Dome video guys, they put the replay up on the big video board within seconds of it happening, one board was directly above the ref that didn't make the call. I was absolutely CERTAIN the refs would huddle and get the call right. But it never happened. I don't remember much after that....we were all so confused. It wasn't until a day or two later that it really set in and the true anger began. Can you get PTSD from watching football?

 

[iChill]

I watched the game at a bar in the Quarters. I was pretty tipsy by the time the no-call happened but from that point on it felt like I sobered up immediately. I was that angry.

What infuriated me the most was reading comments from opposing fans who kept calling Saints fans "the biggest crybabies in the league" as if we had no reason to be upset...as if this no call compares to any other ref screw up. I don't care if we still had a chance to win the game. We had them pinned down and the league figuratively jumped in and gave us a gut punch that allowed them to regroup and win the game. Every other fanbase would've been as furious and outspoken as we were.

After that game, I rarely ever engage in trash talk with other fans and I no longer look give weird looks if someone claims the league is rigged. I 100% believe it now.

 

[wnelson]

My kid stopped caring about the nfl... for the most part so did i