PLAYERS:
Russell Wilson,
Golden Tate,
Sam Shields,
M.D. Jennings,
Roger Goodell
TEAMS: Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers
TEAMS: Seattle Seahawks, Green Bay Packers
After an atrocious week of officiating I speak for everyone when I say, “The time to get rid of the replacement officials is now!” I literally saw messed up calls in every single game this week, some worse than others. I saw wrong spots on penalties, a hospitalized player on a helmet to helmet with no flag, not reviewing replay properly on a challenge, wrong calls and the list goes on and on. Lets just forget about all the games this week though except the Monday Night Game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks.
Now this was a highly competitive game and fun to watch don’t get me wrong but I just want to focus on that final play of the game. The game was on the line; it was 4th and 10 on the 24-yard line with 8 seconds remaining. Now Russell Wilson dropped back and rolled out to the left and let his receiver’s space out in the end zone and launched it to Golden Tate. Tate blatantly shoved Sam Shields to the ground as the ball was coming towards him and he was late...
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