>>>>Hopefully, when these teams meet in the NFC championship they'll have a veteran officiating crew. What I witnessed was just awful. The crew last night was run by rookie official John Parry and it showed:
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>>>>-Misinterpretation of an interception as a catch
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>>>That was a weird one. They ruled that the ref. whistle the play dead before the CB took away the ball.
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>>>>-Missed a running into the kicker
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>>>He barely touch McBriar. Not much of a foul
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>>Hence "running into" and not "roughing".
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>>>>-Didn't flag TO for using popcorn as a prop during TD celebration
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>>>Oh. let him have his fun.
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>>Are we applying the rules or not?
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>I thnk that rule only applies to NFL property like the ball and the goal post. Is a cup of popcorn NFL property?
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"foreign or extraneous objects that are not part of the uniform"

The rule was put in place to stop the use of Sharpies, cell-phones and the like.

>>>>-Horrible pass interference call
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>>>It was the correct call. The guy was giveing Miles Austin a shoulder massage starting from the 20 yard line then he trips him up.
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>>It was a close judgement call and the referee closest to the play did not throw the flag. Only after a discussion did Parry throw the flag. Terrible.
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>The first ref. probably didn't see the CB's right arm when he was hooking him around Miles Austins bicep.

How many times have you seen a PI call after a discussion? For me that's 1.