That said, you don’t ever touch or shove an official. I remember a game back in the early ’80s Walter Payton went to plead his case on a call his disagreed with, and on his way, he stumbled and fell into the ref. The ref threw him out of the game even though it wasn’t intentional.

I thought Notre Dame was suppose to be this university of high character. Maybe just hanging around with the Vikings has caused him to go gangsta.

Sorry your team is not living up to expectations. But that shouldn’t be a reason for you to let your inner middle-schooler come back out.

Yes, you guys got royally screwed a couple of weeks ago, but you just plain poo-ed the screwtch yesterday.

Kickers miss. It happens. I hear Longwell is available.

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Again, I challenge anyone to watch the game and find any sort of shove, push or anything else that would warrant a penalty. Unlike you, I’ve watched it and Smith really didn’t deserve a penalty, let alone an ejection. All he did was shrug off an official who had gone way over the top and was out of line. Frankly, I’m not sure what they expected the kid to do, I’ve never seem a ref act like that before… not at any level of football.

Pretty sad when a player can get away with a felony assault.
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Felony? I think you’re getting this guy mixed up with Packer felon Johnny Jolly.

But seriously man? You’re a little out of hand around here, it’s not even funny anymore.

Wow!
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Assault? Seriously??? Really???!!! Give me a break! The wussification of America continues!

Unlike most people who are commenting about this, I watched this encounter several times. What happened was that after Winfield’s interception, Nate Washington jumped up and got into a couple of Vikings players faces, Smith being one of them. Smith did nothing, he was just standing there. For no apparent reason, one official ran into the fray and started shoving Smith away. Smith back peddled for about ten yards, and finally he shrugged his shoulders dislodging the grip the official had on him. It was really a non-event. Then the official, who was completely ignoring Nate Washington who was now aggressively shoving a different Viking player, made the ‘outta here’ motion with his hand toward Smith, while completely ignoring Washinton.

It was seriously like that official targeted Smith. If an official (competely without cause) had shoved me for ten yards down the field during my playing days, I would have done a lot more than shrug him off.

Wow!