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You can’t blame the results of 4 1/2 quarters of football on one non-call.

The results of 58 minutes of football was that the Rams and Saints were very evenly matched. Both sides made some good plays, both sides made some bad plays, there was good coaching and bad coaching and there was bad officiating. With all of that culminating in the Saints having the ball in FG range and deserving of a PI call and helmet to helmet call. Saints were robbed, no two ways about it.

If the roles were reversed this whole board would be melting down right now.

Why do you choose to just ignore the bad calls against the Rams like the facemask call that would have resulted in a 4 point lead and a completely different last two minutes? Just wondering.

Most reasonable people agree that both calls (and others) were horrible and changed the way the rest of the game would have played out.

You are right....this board would be melting down if the shoe was on the other foot because losing sucks, but ALL Saints fans (unlike Ram fans apparently) would be unapologetic and enjoying the awesome victory knowing that bad calls happened against them earlier and they have nothing to feel dirty about.

I'm not ignoring them but that facemask call was subjective in the first place and calling it or not calling it wasn't the difference between the game literally being over. If the Rams get that call, the game isn't over. Different, but not over. Getting half the distance to the goal wasn't going to insure a Rams TD either. I mean, Goff muffed a snap from the 1 in the same game.

And, I know the PI call wouldn't have guaranteed a Saints victory but realistically, it was all but a certainty. From that close, the Saints wouldn't have had to be aggressive and would have run out the clock and taken a very short FG attempt.

Listen, I'm not glad it happened but the Saints had done just enough more than the Rams to win that game and anything less than a Miracle at the Meadowlands meant they were going to lose. Having the refs take away that possibility is a really lousy way to "win" a game.

Rams fans would be pissed if they were in the same spot because it was a gift to the opposition that would have cost the Rams the game. Not simply because they don't like losing. That is what I have a problem with. Fans that are acting as if that non call was just any old mistake and really didn't impact the outcome. That's BS and I wish Rams fans were better than Patriots fans or anyone else and at least admit that we owe this SB berth to the refs. Because we do.