Wildcard Weekend Results

Still on a Tebow-high as I write this simple update.  Any chance they could win in Foxboro next weekend?

Fresh: 3 points -- leading, as usual, but with no more points to gain.
Balls: 2 points

Vernon: 2 points
Zor: 2 points
Lecter: 1 point
Goon: 1 point
Flo: 1 point (still holla-ing with your Superbowl pick gone, Mo?)

And one last thing.  Anyone else notice the blatant inconsistency between two very similar calls this weekend?  In both the Saints/Lions and Steelers/Broncos games, a "pass" play was whistled dead before it should have been:

• Brees had the ball hit out of his hand, and thinking it was an incomplete pass, the ref blew the whistle right before the Lions picked up the ball and ran it towards the endzone. (Were it now blown, they'd have had a touchdown for sure.)
• Big Ben threw a backwards lateral that was dropped by the receiver, and thinking it was an incomplete forward pass, the ref blew the whistle just before Denver jumped on the ball.

Now, as we all know, people make mistakes.  I'm not frustrated by the inadvertent whistles -- those can happen.  What shouldn't happen is how they were ruled.  In the Saints game, they ruled the play a fumble (which they can't do, since the whistle blew it dead as an incomplete pass) and gave possession to Detriot, even though they only jumped on the ball after the whistle had blow.  In the Broncos game, even though the play was clearly a backwards lateral, the whistle blowing meant they had to rule it an incomplete pass, so the ball stayed with the Steelers.

Same play, two outcomes.  Funny thing is, when the refs ruled incorrectly (the Saints/Lions game), the ball actually went to the deserving team.  When they ruled it correctly, the Broncos were shafted and didn't get a fumble they clearly deserved.  In the League of Zors, as commissioner, I would not stand for such inconsistency.