NFL Competition Committee Says the Pats Should've Gotten Flagged at the End of the Super Bowl. Stephon Gilmore Begs to Differ
Just so I have this right, the Competition Committee was addressing the worst, most blatantly fudged up non-call in the 99 year history of the NFL:
… and they went back and retroactively ruled on a play in the Super Bowl no one is talking about? A touch by Stephon Gilmore that barely rose to the level of ticky, never mind tacky? This is what they chose to address? This slight touch that not only had no bearing on Brandin Cooks’ drop (I think we can safely give that to Duron Harmon coming in like a runaway train with a perfectly timed hit for that), but happens on 90 percent of all pass routes? And, while we’re on the subject, had zero impact on the outcome since it was a two score game? This is what the committee’s panties are in a bunch over?
Well, putting aside for a second that this is them trying to invalidate the Patriots win when in fact the Rams were the team that had no business being in the game (glad they were though), they’re trying to invalidate it with what is essentially an ex post facto law:
A law that makes illegal an act that was legal when committed, increases the penalties for an infraction after it has been committed, or changes the rules of evidence to make conviction easier. The Constitution prohibits the making of ex post facto law.
But what the hell? Let’s do this. Forget cleaning up the rules so a play like that Rams-Saints play never happens again. Let’s go back and revisit all the other egregious non-calls in history instead. Starting with this subtle little bit of contact from the last play of the previous Super Bowl:
ICYMI:
Yeah, Chris Hogan getting earholed 20 yards beyond the line of scrimmage on a Hail Mary throw that decided a championship might have been something the Competition Committee could’ve addressed last year. But if they did, it escaped my attention. It was only Patriots fans who ever mentioned the fact the Pats should’ve gotten at the very least an untimed play and another shot at the end zone and a chance to tie the game with a conversion. And we were called whiny, bitchy sore losers.
Not to mention, paranoid. But when the Owner’s Meetings year in and year out are an exercise in changing rules to stop the Patriots and re-legislating old calls that went their way, it’s not paranoia. It’s reality. And it sounds like Gilmore agrees with me:
