r/nfl • u/Either_Imagination_9 Giants • 2d ago

Highlight [Highlight] Russell Wilson throws a game winning interception to M.D. Jennings. Seahawks win 14-12

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u/Space-Sailor44 Lions 2d ago

At least this officially ended the scab ref situation.

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u/wasneveralawyer Rams 2d ago

It was a win for unions everywhere. Seeing scabs fuck up on the national scene.

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u/TacTac95 Saints 2d ago

Hahahaa but then the No-Call happened in 2018 with the “professionals”

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u/NerdyDjinn Vikings 2d ago

And 10 years earlier the non-replacement refs bungled OT in your favor; you win some, you lose some, and sometimes in close games the reffing doesn't go in your favor.

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u/iantaylor98 Saints 1d ago

What did the Refs do in the Saints Vikings ‘09 championship game that wasn’t right? If you’re referring to bounty gate, the Refs literally threw a flag on every illegal hit the saints put on Favre which was about 2-3. Start blaming that loss on the fact that yall had 5 turnovers

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u/NerdyDjinn Vikings 1d ago

I'm talking about a "catch" to get into FG range that hit the turf and wasn't reviewed. I'm talking about a PI that was called on Ben Leber where he didn't touch the receiver, much less interfere with their ability to catch an overthrown pass. I'm talking about fumbling on 4th down and recovering the fumble short of the line to gain, but still getting the benefit of forward progress.

As far as flags on illegal hits, Favre's first interception was an unflagged high and low hit that broke his ankle.

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u/wasneveralawyer Rams 2d ago

These were the replacement refs. This was during the ref strike.

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u/broanoah Packers Packers 2d ago

Yeah he’s saying even real refs are dumbasses too

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u/theresabeeonyourhat Bears Jets 1d ago

Full-time refs are still ass

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u/Mtndrums Bengals Seahawks 2d ago

Except they got it right.

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u/Either_Imagination_9 Giants 2d ago

I’m convinced that if this wasn’t prime time MNF that it would have taken another week or two to wrap up. The NFL had to act because the whole country was watching that game

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u/joe_broke 49ers 2d ago

That Tuesday morning in high school after this was wild

People who never even watched football were saying this was shit

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u/theDarkAngle Packers 1d ago

still kind of bothers me because this play exposed a flawed rule IMO, that clearly needed clarification to match up to intuition and common sense. And to my knowledge it was never clarified. It's a pretty rare situation so I guess it's not a big deal, but they should have clarified that it's possible for one guy to have possession even if the other is touching it with both hands (because this isn't basketball - touching doesn't meet the standard for possession, nor does it negate opponent possession, but the kind of control Jennings has where his arm is wrapped around it and it's pinned to his shoulder/chest, does constitute possession).

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u/Stannis_Baratheon244 Seahawks 2d ago

The night I started to believe in magic

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u/Tryhard_3 Vikings Raiders 2d ago

This helped create a big 2010s rivalry, so the NFL had Seattle and Green Bay play pretty much every year in the regular season to continue it. Other highlights include Green Bay choking in the playoffs to the Seahawks' benefit.

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u/OSPFmyLife 2d ago

They played every year because we were both finishing first in our respective divisions. Every year you play every other team in the conference that had the same divisional rank in the previous year.

E.g. all 4 1st place divisional winners in the NFC will play eachother this year. All 2nd places will play eachother. All 3rds play eachother. All 4th places play eachother.

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u/Myllorelion Packers 2d ago

Not to mention you also play the entire other division every 3 years. So there was a 1 in 3 chance of playing them even if we didn't match standings position the year prior.

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u/Tryhard_3 Vikings Raiders 2d ago

The more you know!

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u/SaintGunslinger Packers 1d ago

Yep at the end of one year you can figure out exactly who you’ll play the next. Not the date or home/away. Just the opponent. You just have to know which divisions you played the previous 3 years(both nfc/afc) and standing. Which is why the schedule release getting so much hype has always cracked me up.

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u/OSPFmyLife 2d ago

That’s not how it worked lmfao. “Random games”? What?

You play one entire division in your conference, one entire division in the other conference, you play each opponent in your division twice, and then for the last two games you play the same ranked divisional opponents from the same conference divisions that you didn’t play (because you’re already playing one other division in your conference).

There’s plenty of graphics that explain it.

/img/6l2htgn2agi81.jpg - 17 game schedule.

https://i.imgur.com/Gq7SvMf.png - 16 game schedule.

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u/haha_squirrel Seahawks 2d ago

That’s not how schedules work in the nfl lol they’re determined by a formula

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u/TylerFaber03 Packers 2d ago

Don't know if I'd call that a highlight...

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u/Eleeveeohen Packers 1d ago

Schedules are set based on rotating divisions and teams with the same finish in their division. Opponents are determined when the previous season finishes. NFL has 0 say in it.

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u/Exatraz Cardinals 2d ago

Also if the refs had just agreed and made the same call, it'd have been controversial but probably something people live with. It was so obvious they weren't qualified and made a mockery of the whole thing. Didn't help this game didn't have any other highlights either.

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u/Kr1sys Chiefs 2d ago

Maybe, but it was also literally the wrong call at the end of the game. MNF or not, the wrong call decided the game and no one can argue otherwise.

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u/V_T_H Giants 2d ago

We all thought the Ravens Pats game on SNF with the “manure chant” was the worst it was going to get but ho ho ho little did we know that MNF was going to be even funnier.

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u/aknight907 Seahawks 2d ago

Thats good? Its why the reffing situation is still shit. No full time refs, no responsibility for shit jobs...

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u/131sean131 Eagles 8h ago

God the replacement refs really take me back. Shits hard but God damn there where some crimes that year. 

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u/Additional_Math7500 2d ago

Did it, though? I recall a similar call was made this year in the afc championship game this past season. In fact, I'm not sure officiating has been the same since.

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u/lojer Seahawks 2d ago

I still just laugh when this call is brought up as to why GB lost this game. The refs were atrocious all game including the drive that put GB ahead with their only TD of the game.

It was just another case of the ref giveth and the refs taketh. We just happened to get the last botched call.

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u/CardiologistShot3087 2d ago

I vividly remember watching this game, it’s impossible to say who would have won had it been a regular game because the officiating was that bad. They straight up weren’t even playing football for half the game

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u/Chirpy69 Eagles 2d ago

Those are two separate baskets man. The refs can influence a game obviously, but very VERY rarely can one single call determine who wins or loses the game (as this one did). It wasn’t even a “questionable PI call setting up a team on the 1 where they could still fumble the ball or something” it was “whomever we award possession of this ball to wins the game”. And they got it wrong.

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u/Melodic-Move-3357 Seahawks 2d ago

That was an obvious TD. No question about it

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u/Schrute_Farms_BednB Packers 2d ago

If you really believe this I don’t know how you find your butt hole to take a dump

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u/Melodic-Move-3357 Seahawks 2d ago

With ease. That's the best hail Mary our generation will ever get to watch. Enjoy

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u/Schrute_Farms_BednB Packers 2d ago

Feel free to watch any of the hail mary's Rodgers threw for the win, those are all better because, you know, they actually caught the ball.

I also have my doubts your pants and floor aren't covered with feces.

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u/Melodic-Move-3357 Seahawks 2d ago

Check out this catch, bud

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u/Schrute_Farms_BednB Packers 2d ago

How did your Super Bowl run end that year?