So here’s your chance to show us how to take it like a man. And it’s not looking good so far.

Problem is no one watching the game was truely objective. We all know these officials are replacements and we all hate that. But the fact of the matter is this wouldn’t be such a big deal if the regular officials made that call. Would it be controversial? sure, twitter would have exploded last night like it did but NO ONE would be talking about it today. Packers players wouldn’t be taking hits in the wallet for saying something stupid after that and the only ones who would still be thinking about this are the packer fans themselves. We are biased against the replacements, we scrutinize every call they make more than we would the regular officials. We are not objective when it comes to this.

All I had to do was knock it down. Instead I looked like a scrub.

He never saw anything close to what he witnessed Monday night.

Markbreit was at home outside of Chicago, watching Green Bay play at Seattle, and — like millions of other viewers — he was stunned by the officiating calls that were made, the ones that weren’t made, and the Seahawks’ game-winning Hail Mary that wasn’t a catch but an interception.

Photos: Was it a touchdown or an interception?

“I don’t like to see injustice at all,” Markbreit said by phone Tuesday morning. “And I think that injustice has been served on our officials. But this is injustice against a team that deserved to win this game, and it’s terrible. It makes you feel bad. It puts a stain on officiating everywhere.

“The officials that work all the other sports look at this thing and say, ‘My gosh! How could the NFL put these inexperienced guys, to represent the officiating world, on the biggest stage they have? Shame on them.’”

Markbreit, 77, who retired as a game official in 1999, has spent the past decade as an officiating trainer with the league. When the league locked out the officials in June, the trainers were told their services would not be needed either.

Watching Monday’s game, Markbreit found it especially galling that, when the two officials in the end zone had opposite calls, one calling a touchback or time out and the other a touchdown, the referee didn’t step in get both zebras on the same page.

“This is a routine play from our guys,” he said. “It’s a wonderful play, and it’s a great play to officiate, and it’s a great play to get correct.

“The head referee should come down. Anytime you have a play where you have two decisions — one yes, one no — the referee comes down, ‘What’s going on guys?’ that’s negotiation. That’s what a referee does. He doesn’t just call fouls, he negotiates the game.”

1) The incident at the end overshadowed a really good game. Seahawks defense breaking records in the 1st half and the Packers fighting back and taking the lead in the second. Too bad it got ruined !

2) The Pack had the ball and the lead with less than a minute left. One first down and it was game over. They put themselves in the position for the outcome to happen. Also Jennings should have swatted the ball away like a well-coached professional player.

3) My Hawks can make the plays, but they can’t make the calls too. Don’t trash-talk our coach, players and fans for what Goodell’s flying monkeys have wrought.

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slow down. relax. most of us are aware of the real world issues going on and realize this isn’t life or death stuff. but for many of us this is where we turn when we are looking to get away from everything else going on in the world and in our own lives. this is our timeout from everything else. this is our chance to take 3 hours away from the real world and enjoy a game. when that game is being tarnished/mismanaged/corrupted/…howerver you want to put it…we are going to get upset about it.

Clearly you have never seen Jim Schwartz

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Did anyone inform “Pumped n jacked, Mr Feeling Dangerous” that the same NFL he so blindly puts his faith into also stated that Tate committed offensive PI prior to the ball ever getting there? And that the game should have ended right then?
Where was THAT followup question in this interview?

That all said, I’m entirely unimpressed with Russell Wilson and believe Matt Flynn would have Seattle at 3-0 right now without the benefit of the officials. There’s too much he is missing because of inexperience and inability to see downfield. Sorry.