Still a tough loss to swallow
It’s been almost 48 hours, so it hasn’t been too long, but many Packer fans are still reeling from Sunday’s dramatic loss. A few Packer blogs are still questioning the non-call facemask penalty.
The league already issued a statement precisely on why a call was not made. But still you see more pictures popping up with a finger on Aaron Rodgers face mask (with ball floating through the air). With our great ability to stop pictures using DVR’s and with more people taking photos of the live action, I can see how you can freeze a moment in time to “prove” there was a face-masking taking place.
What these pictures don’t show is that during a normal speed replay (or live as the refs have to call the action) it’s not as obvious (unless you have green glasses on). Plus, at that point if you’re a ref, you are probably concentrating on whether the ball is going to hit the ground, get picked up, who recovers, etc., rather than continuing to hang-on to the hope that you can find some justification for calling the play back.
I’d expect a few more days of this before it starts to die out.
