I'm a Saints fan. It still haunts me. I belong to several NFL related pages on FB. I had many messages from fans of other teams telling me they were angry as well.
I don't agree. In fact that worst call ever isn't even on the list. New Orleans at Miami on Oct. 25th 2009. On Miami's first possession of the second half Chad Henne throws an interception. Darren Sharper catches the int and is returning it up the sideline. At about the five yard line Ted Ginn punches the ball out from behind and it shoots through the end zone. That should be Miami's ball on the 20 yard line. Instead it's called a touchdown for the Saints. No replay was shown other than the original angle which had Sharper's body blocked out by Miami lineman trying to prevent the TD. Sports Illustrated had a photographer in the corner of the end zone where the fumble happened, and they published a photo showing the ball being fumbled and the ref that called the TD looking right at the fumble. If you look on RUclips for highlights of that game, you'll see a modified version of the replay, the original highlight has been removed. It was the ultimate smoking gun of rigged NFL games.
@@deadeye4520 good lord, dude. Smoke crack recreationally if you must but if you're smoking enough to type that and still have the gumption to press the reply button, you're clearly smoking too much.
The refs also called a holding penalty against the cowboys TE that game when in reality the penalty should really been on the lions. if that penalty wasn’t called then the cowboys woulda won the game already. so, I view this as karma for that
@@zachhamman8143 Unfortunately karma has no place in sports officiating though. Decker DID, very clearly, report. Sure there was no actual footage OF him ACTUALLY doing so, but look at the circumstances surrounding it. Goff signals to Decker to go to the ref. He does, with #58 there. The ref intentionally looked AWAY from Decker, to SKIPPER, who was running up at the time. You can see it here in the video-the ref gives Decker a nod, LONG before Skipper had even approached the ref there. He then threw the flag at the end of the play. There was no such intent from Skipper to do so, in fact, by the time he had actually approached where the ref was to check in as the rulebook states to do so, the ref was already walking away. There's enough evidence that highly suggests that Decker went to check in as eligible on that play...to say that he did in fact check in. The ref fucked it up, plain as day. The Lions should have won that game, based on how the game had unfolded.
@ I’m not saying the play wasn’t fucked up, but I wouldn’t say the lions should have won that game because the previous drive the refs completely got a holding penalty wrong against the cowboys when it was the lions that was holding which would have ended the game and the cowboys woulda won and that whole decker situation woulda never happened. So, in the situation the lions got screwed but the cowboys shoulda won before that happened regardless
Also if I’m not mistaken when a player checks in as eligible they’re supposed to announce on the intercoms above to let players and fans know and they never did
The Fail Mary is brutal, but the no call interference at #1 is just funny to me. The guy got absolutely clobbered, and the call should've been so obvious even Madden would've called it 🙄
No question the NFC No-Call should be #1. Cost my Saints a Super Bowl and denied everyone the opportunity to see a legendary Brees vs. Brady, Payton vs. Belichick Super Bowl. Saints fans like me will never get over that.
The #1 play was absolutely inexcusable. I remember seeing that as it happened and wondered who paid the refs off, because Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder saw the interference on that play.
I wish people would mention *why* the referee didn't throw the flag- he thought the ball was tipped. Still the wrong call but at least it's kinda understandable
I'd nominate the 2001 call that triggered Bottlegate in Cleveland, whereby the refs reviewed and overturned a play even after a subsequent play took place. This call cost Cleveland the game and led to a deluge of debris that caused the officials to cal the game--then have to bring the players back 20 minutes to finish the final two downs after the NFL said they didn't have the authority to call a game.
Don't know if the ref kept his job, but this is a Pop-Warner level blunder. You cannot review a play after another play passed, and a referee can call a timeout at any time if there is a need to talk the play over. The entire crew should have been suspended and fined.
Bill Vinovich, after that disastrous non PI call, was allowed to referee 2 different Super Bowl games. If that doesn’t prove NFL indifference and corruption, nothing does.
head ref isnt responsible for that call, he is set up behind the QB and watching for penalties in the backfield. it was side judge Gary Cavaletto who was right there and decided not to throw the flag. BTW, Gary Cavaletto has not officiated a single playoff game since.
The only thing this comment proves is ignorance. For those unaware. Referee crews are graded on every single play every week of the season. Each crew receives a score for every game. Those scores over the course of a season are the primary drivers for determining which crews officiate the premier playoff games. Vinovich’s crew botched that 2018 call no question about it. But over the years his crew is one of the highest graded crews week in and week out. This data supports the selections.
I remember that first one with Marsh, that was also know as the absolute worst year for football ever because the NFL uppers decided to make taunting a "point of emphasis" so they called taunting on absolutely everyone just for looking in the wrong direction.
I was just gonna reply to this vid saying that. In the replay angle posted which is pretty down the line you see the ball moving slightly backwards.... Thrown at the 26 and a half.... Gets caught at the 26 and a quarter.... angles aside. That's a lateral. Doesn't belong in the WORST calls ever list. It was the right call. Not a Bills fan or a Titans fan.
Yes. There are videos breaking down every single angle, and the one right on the line shows the ball ever so slightly going backwards, or at a near perfect 90 degrees. You have to look at the ball, not the players body positions. It did not go forward.
@@georgejohnson8674the 10 second turnover during the coaching of Jim Caldwell which ended the game even though 10 seconds was plenty of time to get another few points to win the game
@@DwayneryIt never went forward either. It doesn’t matter if it goes backward all that matters is that it doesn’t go forward, and when you watch the zoomed in angles on the ball there is no decisive evidence the ball went forward from where it is initially thrown
I agree. I don’t remember this being very controversial. Maybe shortly after. But there is no clear evidence the ball went forward. What happens when it’s not clear? You leave it as called on the field and not what it might have been
@@Dwaynery Actually it did. You see this play has the benefit of occurring right on a yardage line where you with a camera angle parallel to the line and you can clearly see the call travel backwards toward the line a few inches.
Jeez, I'll never forget that "Tuck" game! I had family (Patriot fans from Boston) out to the Bay Area visiting me, and we were all watching the game. Me, the Raider fan and them Patriot fans. They all died from laughter when they ruled that call in Brady's favor!
Patriots were 'destined' to win. They committed pass interference [ or holding] on the St. Louis Rams on almost every play, no calls. Then on the final drive for the winning field goal, a Pat was tackled 1 yard from the sideline and rolled out of bound. Refs stopped the clock! [Pats had no timeouts...]
@@maildotmjkcause if that was the actual rule. Every QB would just have to tuck the ball back at the start of every play to avoid a funble if we’re to lose the ball. But they leave out how long it took the refs took . It was the only time I remember commentator’s mentioning the 90 second was way over extended. Meaning the refs were looking for something that could over turn the call. I even remember the season after many of the commentators would ask if they were looking to see if the QB tucked the ball . I don’t think they ever called it again but did find out they had called that tuck rule earlier in that season but it was for guess what team??? RIGHT
@@masterdebate "Every QB would just have to tuck the ball back at the start of every play to avoid a funble" That would not help them. Once the ball is tucked, they are subject to fumbling. The rule was when a QB starts the throwing motion, if the ball is knocked out it's a fumble, unless the arm is going forward. They don't want refs to have to guess if it's a pump fake, or an actual throw or the QB changed his mind, or whatever, so if the arm has started going forward and then the ball is knocked out it's an incomplete pass. When is the throwing motion over and the QB subject to fumbling the ball again vs being call an incomplete pass? At the time the rule was the ball had to be tucked. The rule needs to be something which different refs could look at and agree had happened or not happened. It can't be something vague. I don't agree with it, but it was the rule, in black and white. The American Football DB lists 3 time it happened, only 1 of them was for NE. NFL Rule 3, Section 22, Article 2, Note 2. When [an offensive] player is holding the ball to pass it forward, any intentional forward movement of his arm starts a forward pass, even if the player loses possession of the ball as he is attempting to tuck it back toward his body. Also, if the player has tucked the ball into his body and then loses possession, it is a fumble. The fact that most people were not aware of it, including me, does not mean it was not a rule.
I love how #4 (Dez Bryant no-catch) you actually admit it was the right call according to the rules; it was the rule itself that was bad. That’s a different list, my guy.
Exactly. I'm so sick of hearing people pretend the cowboys got robbed. It was not a catch by the rules that season. And also, like Peter said, the cowboys were only there because the refs the prior week, picked up a flag for a clear and obvious penalty, after Dez Bryant ran out on the field with no helmet and yelled at them.
Bears fan here...appreciate the Tony Corrente BS call vs Marsh...Marsh who was just promoted off the practice roster makes an AMAZING play, all to have it negated by a referee who wanted to make himself be noticed...killed Marsh's confidence that game and gave Marsh a lot of flak initially for something when he did NOTHING wrong...both Corrente and the NFL SUCK, Corrente for the call, and the NFL for giving that jerk of a ref the Pro Bowl as a reward for his horrible referring at the end of the season...
I always assumed Marsh said something to the ref as he headed over, which motivated the ref to move in his way and make the call. But two wrongs never make a right.
A few things worth mentioning about the lions cowboys game. The illegal touching penalty came much later after a discussion on the field which felt a bit odd. The next day, that referee team was not allowed to officiate the playoffs.
- NFL is in bed with gambling - NFL coaches and player cannot gamble on games, BUT there is NO RESTRICTION on family. (Reminds you of Congress) - Sports Entertainment is in bed with gambling. - Sports Entertainments folks are slowly promoting ideas like purposely losing games to get better draft spots. They are normalizing questionable conduct over time. - There is a clear history of game rigging in sports. Arguing the severity is a distraction from the fact it has happened. What could possibly go wrong????
"Tanking" or losing games on purpose is indeed an issue. The NBA curbed this to a degree with it's lottery, and the NFL badly needs to do the same thing.
The worst part about #1 is the entire country had to then sit through the most boring SB of all time between the Pats and the Rams who didn't even deserve to be there.
I found it funny that the replacement refs were given such grief over this one play. When the NFL refs came back, they still made the same horrible calls as the focus was back on them. I would say the replacement refs werent all that bad as a whole and they didnt have loads of time to prepare for this role either. One call shouldnt have nullified everything they did or be enough to end a strike, because as soon as he old refs came back in, they were just as bad as before.
The problem with the replacement refs is that they accidentally screwed the Packers. Most other teams, it would have been fine, but few teams whine to the league about officiating blunders like the Packers do.
Two that deserve to be on this list, 1988 wild card game Browns vs Oilers. Browns recover an obvious fumble (it was actually a lateral) refs called it an incomplete pass. Would’ve secured a Browns win. Also, BottleGate shoulda definitely been on this list. Rule number one when it comes to instant replay has always been, once a play has been ran, you cannot challenge the previous play.
You got #1 exactly right. And, based on the mediocre 13-3 play of the Patriots in the Super Bowl, it's blatantly obvious the Saints would've curb-stomped New England in the Big Game for the franchise's second Lombardi!
That call was so bad that I wrote a blistering letter to Roger Goodell. I am a Chiefs fan, but that call was so bad that it single-handedly cost the Saints the game. I was in total disbelief that the game even went on.
Looking back on that faithful day, I'm surprised that the fans of New Orleans didn't storm the field in an angrily mob fashion or at least throw trash onto the field.
That Decker call was some BS, Skipper was on his way over, Decker was right there, and the ref started walking away by the time Skipper even got there. Also, my dad worked Super Bowl XL as a medic, when he got home, we talked about the game, and he was going on about the Seahawks getting hoed the whole game, and he was right.
It would have been easier for the Lions if they had only sent one player over and not three, especially since one of them (Skipper) had frequently reported as eligible earlier in the game. The only reason to send over more than one is to try to confuse the referee. Or they could have noticed when it was announced on the PA that Skipper had reported eligible and said something then.
The fact that the ref is walking away when Skipper runs over to the group is how you know the ref's story is bullshit. Because according to the rules, THE PLAYER HIMSELF is the only one allowed to report to the ref they're eligible. So Skipper would have had to talk to the ref at some point, and he didn't... But Decker did. Brad Allen wants people to believe that even though Dan Campbell told him about this play before the game and that he had a minute long discussion with Decker on the sidelines, no one mentioned an extra lineman until Skipper yelled at him "BTW, I'm eligible!".
I'm a Seahawks fan, not a Bengals fan. But the Bengals got screwed in the playoffs two years in a row, at the end of the 2021 season, and then at the end of the 2022 season. The first season, they lost in the SB to the NFL"s desire to build a fan base for the Rams. The next season, the NFL had decided that Patrick Mahomes was their new Golden Boy, so the Bengals got screwed in the AFCCG. In each game, the refs just let the teams play for most of the game. But when the Bengals threatened to actually WIN the game, suddenly there was a flag fest in the last 2 minutes, with all the flags going against the Bengals. Two years in a row the same team got screwed in the same way.
Both games were refereed by Ronald Torbert. I'll describe Torbert to jog your memory: he's a black referee who wears wire framed glasses. He's a little on the pudgy side, rather than muscular.
Not a Bengals fan at all, but I agree. They, like the Saints, don't get hardly any calls. Just look at the game earlier this year where Burrow got hit in the head/face mask on a pass late, and nothing was called.
be honest if the chiefs are going to SB this year whoever they play against, the refs will definitely screw the other team cuz NFL wants that to happen ,just like 2023 wild card game rams against the lions, the last PI no call on puka that one was obvious too, but the league wants that win for the lions because they haven't won a playoff game for 30 years. People like three year in a row on SB so don't be surprised if chiefs got a sneaky win over any team in 24SB
With the exception of #1, these aren't bad calls, just controversial calls. They could be argued either way. The video should include clear and indisputable bad calls, of which there are plenty, like #1.
@johnmassoud930 As a lifelong Hawks fan and Washington native, I agree. However, the part on that Superbowl was about a series of calls, some of which are debatable like Turner's supposed push-off. I would be fine if they had just listed the phantom Hasselback low block, as that one was incontrovertible.
@@johnmassoud930 The head referee in that game, Bill Levy, later appeared in Seattle at the start of the season a couple years later and apologized, admitting he and his crew made enough bad calls to changed the outcome of the game. Bill is a fire fighter in his other career, and seemed quite honest, quite humble.
@@scottjohnson7248 I've seen enough videos of that game, and watched it live. Most of the calls went against Seattle and were wrong. There was also a couple that could have gone against Pittsburgh that weren't called. But having seen it several times I do think Ben did score a TD on that sneak. It was very hard to see in the pile, and close, but it looked like he got the tip of the the ball over the line. The call against Jackson was very questionable, extremely nit-picky. Seattle also made some bad decisions in that game. Clogging the line and missed defensive assignments on the Parker TD. Botching the coverage on the pass by Antwan Randel-El was the biggest one. It was not only known across the league how talented Randel-El was, and that he was a former QB, but that the Steelers used him on trick plays. Otherwise a terrific game defensively by the Seahawks. Offense too. Just look at the stat board.
@@johnmassoud930 Horseshit. There's only one bad call against Seattle in that Super Bowl - the Hasslebeck call. And that didn't in any way decide the game. Yes, that was a terrible call. - The holding call? We've seen holding called for far less. And even if someone wants to argue that's not holding, it's Illegal Hands to the Face as Locklear's hands hit the face mask. Either way it's a penalty. - Ben's TD? It's an inch either way and anyone who claims otherwise is kidding themselves. I think it was a TD but frankly there's no real way to tell. So call on the field stands...and it's not like the play was 4th down. So even if that call goes Seattle's way the Steelers still have the ball at the 1/2 inch line. And as far as everything going against Seattle Horseshit. The refs missed calls that should have helped the Steelers. - What about Jeremy Stephens' fumble in the 2nd quarter? Instead, it was called an incomplete pass even after he took 2 steps with the ball. That's Steelers ball right there but because the play was whistled dead it was deemed a no call. - But the more egregious one was the illegal block in the back by 94 against Ben on the Interception return. That call was massively OBVIOUS with no flag. It's as bad as the Hasslebeck call - actually worse, because Seattle scored a TD just 3 plays later. The refs missed calls on both ends as they do every game. It's just Seattle fans were so butthurt because up to that point they'd never won anything. So yeah, put the narrative of the biased refs to bed. And if anyone wants to debate this, go look at these calls here: ruclips.net/video/1znnQG4eSOA/видео.html
The Saints' no-call was the absolute worst. If I were Sean Peyton, I would have sat my team down and refused to go out on the field until the NFL corrected that no-call. The entire team would have gone into the locker room. I would have shut down the game in front of a national audience and all the advertisers watching until it was addressed. It literally robbed the Saints of a shot at the Super Bowl.
But ignore the even more times the refs screwed them over with calls. If you think the refs are purposely helping a team over just being really damn bad overall, you are niave.
@lord_canon no it hasn't. I hate the Pats just so much as most non NE fans do. They weren't having the league rig games for them. Same thing with the Chiefs now. Do they get the benefit on calls at time, yah, but it's far from getting calls to influence a game.
There were a lot of bad calls in the Superbowl between Pittsburgh and Seattle. The last one you mentioned, the holding call, was not a bad call. You can clearly see it here at 7:05 in your video. The offensive lineman is behind the edge rusher and his hand is on his the edge rusher's right shoulder and arm. You can see his fingers on the front of his arm. That's holding.
I like the calls you have listed here ( except for the Mike Tomlin one), but the Snow Bowl FUMBLE should be number one. Both teams had changed offenses and defenses, not a person in the stadium doubted that it was a fumble, and then......a call from New York. Hands down the most egregious example of game fixing in the NFL, and outside of the Game Six between the Sacramento Kings vs Los Angeles fakers, the worst in sports history.
No question about the Kings-Lakers being the worst of the worst. Say what one will about him, but Tim Donaghy explained after his arrest and conviction how that game's outcome was determined. Tim passed lie detector tests by the FBI, and an independent test, and even the FBI said once Tim came clean, he spilled his guts and they had zero reason to believe he wasn't telling the whole truth at that point.
@@PhilAndersonOutside yep. Nice to hear from someone else who recognized it for what it was. Donaghy was definitely the product of a corrupt culture from the top down in the NBA. I never watched another pro basketball game after that. I'm to understand that they still refuse to make flopping a foul. Seems about right. My buddy says the Olympic robbery of Roy Jones Jr should be considered the all-time worst example of fixing. I watched it recently, it was pretty bad.
@jonathanstewart4800 by whom? There is definite doubt because of videos like these. I've never seen a video of the actual yardline right in front of the camera. I've seen videos before the yardline and after the yardline that show both.
8:43 Cowboys fans don’t let this go lightly because people still debate it despite the fact that the NFL stated 3yrs later, before revising the catch rule, that it was called wrong and Dez DID catch it.
The holding call on locklear was legit. If the other bad calls never happen. No one says boo about that call. We've all seen holding called for less. They even had a former official on nfl network review those SB calls, he disagreed with all of them, but that one. But by the time that happened, everyone was already fired up about the previous calls.
There's only one bad call against Seattle in that Super Bowl - the Hasslebeck call. And that didn't in any way decide the game. Yes, that was a terrible call. The holding call? We've seen holding called for far less. And even if someone wants to argue that's not holding, it's Illegal Hands to the Face as Locklear's hands hit the face mask. Either way it's a penalty. Ben's TD? It's an inch either way and anyone who claims otherwise is kidding themselves. I think it was a TD but frankly there's no real way to tell. So call on the field stands...and it's not like the play was 4th down. So even if that call goes Seattle's way the Steelers still have the ball at the 1/2 inch line. And as far as everything going against Seattle Horseshit. The refs missed calls that should have helped the Steelers. What about Jeremy Stephens' fumble in the 2nd quarter? Instead, it was called an incomplete pass even after he took 2 steps with the ball. That's Steelers ball right there but because the play was whistled dead it was deemed a no call. But the more egregious one was the illegal block in the back by 94 against Ben on the Interception return. That call was massively OBVIOUS with no flag. It's as bad as the Hasslebeck call - actually worse, because Seattle scored a TD just 3 plays later. The refs missed calls on both ends as they do every game. It's just Seattle fans were so butthurt because up to that point they'd never won anything. So yeah, put the narrative of the biased refs to bed. And if anyone wants to debate this, go look at these calls here: ruclips.net/video/1znnQG4eSOA/видео.html
The worst referee call in history, without a doubt, is the simplest thing a referee has to do. The coin flip . The Thanksgiving coin flip between Detroit and Pittsburgh where Pittsburghs Jerome Bettis called heads, it came down heads, yet tge referee Saud Bettis called tails. Was an overtime coin flip, with microphones clearly getting Bettis calling it correctly. Detroit was awarded tge choice and won the game after receiving the OT kickoff
I just saw a Podcast video were Jared Goff says he doesn't think that was a pass Interference call when he played for the rams. Now I'm Glad the lions lost vs the cowboys last year with that ineligible man call on Dan Skipper.
I can’t believe you put the Dallas Green Bay play on there and not the Dallas Lions the week before. What a joke when that was 20 times worse and flat cost the Lions the game. Take this stupidity off.
I was at that game (Lions fan). The whole stadium was completely confused. Neither refs nor PA system announced anything that was going on. Everyone knew it was a penalty. Exiting, I had a number of Cowboys fans come up to me saying we got screwed. That tells you how egregious it was.
Lions tried to get sneaky and tricky with reporting by having lineman running at the refs to make them look eligible - you play with fire and occasionally you'll get burnt.
@@lachlanhabershon4719Different game. They are referencing a Lions playoff game against the Cowboys where the Lions had a pass thrown towards a receiver who was face-guarded by the defender (he basically bear hugged the receiver while never once looking back), and the refs threw the flag just to randomly pick it up even though it was clear as day.
Idk what the lions are crying about. Weird how the WR is ripping the defenders facemask off and you're complaining about a PI that never existed. Same with last year, the last lions drive doesn't exist if the refs didn't bail out the lions. The list is crap, and your eyes really need to be checked.
Bill Vinovich didn’t , in ANY way, keep a “ low profile”. The NFL awarded him two KC Super Bowls where he and his crew made many calls that easily could have made this video. Congrats to him and KC for tainted rings
4:40 look right here, the ball leaves Wycheck’s hand at the 26, and Dyson catches it right on the 25yd line. Yes, Wycheck was further back, but a lateral is based on where the ball is. This (just like the previous example) was not a bad call.
This is funny, even for a Chiefs fan. We do get some, we lose some as well. Notice the Chiefs do not argue with the refs about where they spot the ball or the calls that go against them. You might notice that good teams will never say that after playing an entire game it was that one call the refs missed that cost them the game. I hear the noise against the Chiefs. It sounds a lot like the noise against the Patriots and other good teams over the years.
NFL is not far off from professional wrestling. The refs have extreme control over the outcome of a game. You ever hear you can call holding on every play?
6:20 yes, thank you, the entire game was a bad call. I tell my kids the Zebras won this game. It was all about the storyline of Bettis winning his final game in his hometown Detroit. 🤦🏻♂️
In the AFC Championship, TE Jesse James was robbed a TD and the Steelers were robbed a Super Bowl appearance. The NFL APOLOGIZED to The Steelers the very next day!!! That should be NUMBER ONE. It's not even on this list. The Steelers & The Ravens have been shafted many times by refs in Tom Brady's pockets.
You didn't mention the worst. In the 1965 championship between Green Bay and Baltimore, at the end, Green Bay had a field goal kick which clearly was wide. However, it was called good, the game went into overtime and Green Bay won on another field goal in overtime. The NFL clearly wanted Green Bay to win to polish the legend and legacy of Lombardi.
I would add the Ed Hochuli Chargers-Broncos call in 2008. Jay Cutler CLEARLY fumbled near the Chargers’ goal line, but Hochuli ruled it an incomplete pass, blowing the play dead. Despite the Chargers recovering, the Broncos kept possession, scored a touchdown, and converted a two-point attempt to win 39-38. At least Hochuli admitted his mistake during the game, but since he whistled the play dead, there wasn't anything he could do about it.
@ 5:12 "the Raiders trailing by 14 points to 20."... Someone who doesn't even know football with an AI voice are the channels i tell RUclips to never recommend again. 😉
@@CanesProdz what about you still converting with something that's so micro in your eyes? Why don't you look up the word 'contradiction,' because you're probably swimming your life in it. 😋
I disagree with Tuck being a "bad call". You even said it in the commentary, "according to the letter of the law". Exactly. Meaning the call was good. Just because we decided the rule should change doesn't make the call bad.
I think it was in 1999, a Seahawks at Jets game late in the season (might have been the last regular season game). Jets QB runs a sneak from the 1 and gets awarded the TD. Replay clearly shows that his WHITE helmet breaks the plane, but the BROWN football is still tucked down into his belly, nowhere close to the goal-line. No instant replay that year so the TD stood as called... Seahawks loss knocks them out of the playoffs and their head coach got fired. Up to that point in time, the WORST call I ever saw.
I was looking for that one as well. In the end, it was good for the Hawks because, if not for that call, they most likely make the playoffs. If that happens, Erickson doesn't get fired and Mike Holmgren is never hired which completely changes the next 25 years of Seahawks history.
I was at that game. Vinny Testaverde was the Jets QB. Truly heartbreaking as it kicked us out of the playoffs but it was the catalyst for bringing back instant replay, and as jameslucas2498 mentioned, it ultimately resulted in Holmgren as our new coach.
"With the Raiders trailing by 14 points to 20"? Who wrote this crap and how did the narrator not notice how terrible it sounded while doing the VO work? RUclips has made me appreciate the quality of PROFESSIONAL video makers. Too much content here seems as if it was done as a homework assignment by an average to below average 7th grader.
The call on Tomlin was legit. The last two are just...gross. Even today, many people, coaches, and commentators get "simultaneous catch" wrong insofar as BOTH players must put their hands on the ball at exactly the same time. One player can't touch it, in the air, then another player touches it, also in the air (two players jumping), and have it be simultaneous even if they BOTH land in control of the ball. It has to be simultaneous at the very first moment.
In 1965 the Green Bay Packers and the Baltimore Colts were tied at the end of the season. At the end of the game the Green Bay Packers kicker according to the referees made a field goal to tie the game in regulation. The Packers went on to win, and win the NFL championship. However, according to footage revealed later the kicker had actually missed the field goal. There was only one referee behind the uprights, so to him it appeared that the football just within the upright. After this there were always a referee behind each upright. This deserves to be on this list somewhere.
I was there for the Nola no call that gave the Rams a trip to the superbowl. Leaving the stadium was like walking from a funeral. The world saw a fixed NFL game . And sad part is Bill Vinobitch is still calling big games .
7:06 "The replay showed no holding" Show that from the other angle, the one where you can see the hook and the stumble it caused. You can see a bit of it here, but it's way more obvious from the sideline angle. That call was only controversial if you watch only the single replay angle provided.
What about the infamous mistaken coin toss call in the 1998 game between the Steelers and the Lions? Steelers RB, Jerome Bettis was clearly heard calling "Tails," the coin landed tails up, and the ref, Phil Luckett said "Tails it is, Detroit wins the coin toss.." Everyone present, including the Lions were clearly confused as Bettis argued he had called tails and Luckett said he'd called "heads-tails."
For starters, hard to claim these are the worst calls in history considering the league's been around since 1920 so I'd guess there have been worse calls. Secondly, I can think of a couple that belong on this list. One is from the 1979 AFC Championship game. Trailing 17-10 Dan Pastorini hit Mel Renfro in the back of the endzone for what looked like a tying score but the officials say he was out of the endzone. Replay showed he got both feet in. The Oilers had to settle for a FG and never recovered. Another was in the 1976 AFC divisional game between the Patriots and Raiders. The Patriots were leading the game but the Raiders mounted a comeback and down by 7 and on 3rd and 18 Stabler threw an incompletion that should have made it 4th and 18 but a phantom roughing the passer call on Sugar Bear Hamilton gave the Raiders new life and they scored to take the lead for good. Finally, in week 16 of 1984 the Cardinals played the Redskins for a chance to win the division and leading 27-26, the Redskins EJ Junior sacked Joe Theisman on 3rd down and the officials called him for roughing the passer giving the Redskins new life which they ended up kicking the winning FG.
#1 was a make-ip call early in the game where saints scored a td when brees clearly created illegal motion infraction that wasn't called on third down, essentially giving NO four extra pts assuming the would have made the fg.
Your replays STINK w/ all the cuts & edits. Gotta show the play start to end, then focus in on the contact, fumble, whatever, that constitutes the controversy. W/ all the cuts its just a confusing bunch of quick flashes that, if you weren't already familiar w/ the play, you'd have no idea what you're looking at. Music City Miracle for example- you never show the shot RIGHT DOWN THE YARD LINE that looks like a good lateral & even shows a ref in the background waving his arms- he's in PERFECT POSITION, deserves a medal- to indicate no infraction, the lateral was legal. This video is more poorly executed & edited than any of the plays you show
The "Holy Roller" was not a bad call, but a rule that allowed it to happen. Total BS on that. In its place would be the non-call at the end of SB47, where it was an obvious pass interference/holding call that went uncalled, allowing the Ravens to run out the clock. The other was the 1977-8 AFC Championship game between the Broncos and Raiders. Lytle tried to go over the top and was met mid-air by Jack Tatum, resulting in Lytle being knocked unconscious and the Raiders recovering the fumble. It would have resulted in a Raiders TD on that play, but it was called back, saying that Lytle didnt fumble. Broncos went on to win by 3.
The Cowboys/Vikings pass interference call in the 70s was worse than number one here. Ref even got a bottle to the head. Also, the Thanksgiving game where the ref said the opposite of the coin flip leading to a loss for the Lions.
As a ram fan, I thought we really got away with one… but then we went on to play the worst superbowl appearance ever and only scored 3 points. Looking back I wished we had lost so I didn’t have to suffer through that miserable performance.
Saints fan here, thanks for your honesty, lol. Even if we went on to win, the refs probably would have went on to screw us out of the Superbowl. Who knows. 🫤
3:19 that’s because Decker didn’t report. On review, you can hear the ref say it was #70 reporting as eligible, not #68. The defense would’ve been watching for Decker to come off the line if they’d reported correctly. There was no reason they needed 3 linemen to go over there to report; the Lions were being intentionally deceptive, and it backfired.
I remember watching the Lions very clearly tackle Justin Forsett after a minimal gain, only to watch him get up and run for a touchdown. I thought it was a joke until the call was confirmed. I even think the Lions got charged a timeout for trying to challenge and were told they couldn't.
I think everyone agrees with #1. Everybody in the country jaws dropped simultaneously.
Yeah that play still haunts me.
I'm a Saints fan. It still haunts me. I belong to several NFL related pages on FB. I had many messages from fans of other teams telling me they were angry as well.
I don't agree. In fact that worst call ever isn't even on the list. New Orleans at Miami on Oct. 25th 2009. On Miami's first possession of the second half Chad Henne throws an interception. Darren Sharper catches the int and is returning it up the sideline. At about the five yard line Ted Ginn punches the ball out from behind and it shoots through the end zone. That should be Miami's ball on the 20 yard line. Instead it's called a touchdown for the Saints. No replay was shown other than the original angle which had Sharper's body blocked out by Miami lineman trying to prevent the TD. Sports Illustrated had a photographer in the corner of the end zone where the fumble happened, and they published a photo showing the ball being fumbled and the ref that called the TD looking right at the fumble. If you look on RUclips for highlights of that game, you'll see a modified version of the replay, the original highlight has been removed. It was the ultimate smoking gun of rigged NFL games.
I'm somewhat of an infected hemorrhoid
@@deadeye4520 good lord, dude. Smoke crack recreationally if you must but if you're smoking enough to type that and still have the gumption to press the reply button, you're clearly smoking too much.
3:50 the following year against dallas, the lions reported as eligible 14 times. This is more than their whole entire season prior to this game
thought it was 17 includeing the kneels
The refs also called a holding penalty against the cowboys TE that game when in reality the penalty should really been on the lions. if that penalty wasn’t called then the cowboys woulda won the game already. so, I view this as karma for that
@@zachhamman8143 Unfortunately karma has no place in sports officiating though. Decker DID, very clearly, report. Sure there was no actual footage OF him ACTUALLY doing so, but look at the circumstances surrounding it. Goff signals to Decker to go to the ref. He does, with #58 there. The ref intentionally looked AWAY from Decker, to SKIPPER, who was running up at the time. You can see it here in the video-the ref gives Decker a nod, LONG before Skipper had even approached the ref there. He then threw the flag at the end of the play. There was no such intent from Skipper to do so, in fact, by the time he had actually approached where the ref was to check in as the rulebook states to do so, the ref was already walking away.
There's enough evidence that highly suggests that Decker went to check in as eligible on that play...to say that he did in fact check in. The ref fucked it up, plain as day. The Lions should have won that game, based on how the game had unfolded.
@ I’m not saying the play wasn’t fucked up, but I wouldn’t say the lions should have won that game because the previous drive the refs completely got a holding penalty wrong against the cowboys when it was the lions that was holding which would have ended the game and the cowboys woulda won and that whole decker situation woulda never happened. So, in the situation the lions got screwed but the cowboys shoulda won before that happened regardless
Also if I’m not mistaken when a player checks in as eligible they’re supposed to announce on the intercoms above to let players and fans know and they never did
The Fail Mary is brutal, but the no call interference at #1 is just funny to me. The guy got absolutely clobbered, and the call should've been so obvious even Madden would've called it 🙄
Ray Charles could see that penalty.
The referee thought the ball was tipped, which is only reviewable when a flag is thrown.
Bad call and bad rule.
As a Saints fan I knew what #1 was before clicking and wasn't disappointed.
As a Rams fan I don't know what you're talking about :D I did'nt see a foul :D
@mym284 l😂😂😂 I know you're being funny, but it reminds me of every chief fan.
@@jordankibbee3441 It's a difference between being one time lucky or you have a season-deal with the refs... But I got the point, I'm sorry dude 😁
@@mym284 very true
Raiders fan here. That was definitely the single worst call in NFL history. Even worse than the stupid "tuck rule" that cost my team.
Next video should be “Top 10 Non Calls and Bad Calls Going in Favor of the Chiefs”
After that make a video on how the earth is flat because winning is fun!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I hate this narrative so much.
Also for patriots
How could you ever POSSIBLY cut that list all the way down to only a top 10
There is too many to choose from., it would be a ten hour video
No question the NFC No-Call should be #1. Cost my Saints a Super Bowl and denied everyone the opportunity to see a legendary Brees vs. Brady, Payton vs. Belichick Super Bowl. Saints fans like me will never get over that.
That ref should've lost his job
Nope and justice will never be served. Is that referee still even in the league?
@matthenagan8189 nah that was karma for bountygate
@danielfranklin9271 something that happened 9 years earlier? OK. Also, the Vikings ran a bounty program too. Anything to say about that?
@@matthenagan8189he is! Guess who called the superbowl last year!!!!!!
The #1 play was absolutely inexcusable. I remember seeing that as it happened and wondered who paid the refs off, because Ray Charles and Stevie Wonder saw the interference on that play.
The DB didn't complain...dead giveaway the nfl is riggd
@@randolphjones2658not only did he not complain, you can see him looking for the flag and being confused why there wasn’t one
I wish people would mention *why* the referee didn't throw the flag- he thought the ball was tipped.
Still the wrong call but at least it's kinda understandable
@@mattdeaver6850 Robey-Coleman said it was tipped, not the ref.
You forgot Jose Feliciano and Ronnie Milsap!
I'd nominate the 2001 call that triggered Bottlegate in Cleveland, whereby the refs reviewed and overturned a play even after a subsequent play took place. This call cost Cleveland the game and led to a deluge of debris that caused the officials to cal the game--then have to bring the players back 20 minutes to finish the final two downs after the NFL said they didn't have the authority to call a game.
Don't know if the ref kept his job, but this is a Pop-Warner level blunder. You cannot review a play after another play passed, and a referee can call a timeout at any time if there is a need to talk the play over. The entire crew should have been suspended and fined.
No bottlegate!?!
Bill Vinovich, after that disastrous non PI call, was allowed to referee 2 different Super Bowl games. If that doesn’t prove NFL indifference and corruption, nothing does.
head ref isnt responsible for that call, he is set up behind the QB and watching for penalties in the backfield. it was side judge Gary Cavaletto who was right there and decided not to throw the flag. BTW, Gary Cavaletto has not officiated a single playoff game since.
@@bas__nmthanks for the info I needed to hear that
The only thing this comment proves is ignorance. For those unaware. Referee crews are graded on every single play every week of the season. Each crew receives a score for every game. Those scores over the course of a season are the primary drivers for determining which crews officiate the premier playoff games. Vinovich’s crew botched that 2018 call no question about it. But over the years his crew is one of the highest graded crews week in and week out. This data supports the selections.
Tomlin should have been suspended 1 game for that interference
he shoud have been ejected from the game and suspended
It was bush league
Yeah that was just an absurd move
He would of still of been tackle
Should have been fired.
The interference was clearly the worst call
%100 scripted!!! Full break downs all over youtube...
I remember that first one with Marsh, that was also know as the absolute worst year for football ever because the NFL uppers decided to make taunting a "point of emphasis" so they called taunting on absolutely everyone just for looking in the wrong direction.
Nobody except the ref knows what wa said in addition to his action.
@@rickowens7247 And to be fair, I doubt the ref even knows what was said. They were going apeshit that year for taunting flags.
@rickowens7247 not true
They will never fix NFL officiating.
It would make it too difficult to rig games.
#7 was a legit lateral...it has been shown that it went backwards...not by much, but by enough that it should NOT be on this list...
Amen. Titans won fair and square.
A lateral doesn't have to go backwards, it just mustn't go forward.
I was just gonna reply to this vid saying that. In the replay angle posted which is pretty down the line you see the ball moving slightly backwards.... Thrown at the 26 and a half.... Gets caught at the 26 and a quarter.... angles aside. That's a lateral. Doesn't belong in the WORST calls ever list. It was the right call. Not a Bills fan or a Titans fan.
Yes. There are videos breaking down every single angle, and the one right on the line shows the ball ever so slightly going backwards, or at a near perfect 90 degrees. You have to look at the ball, not the players body positions. It did not go forward.
Even if it was forward it would be by a foot at the most so any gain is negligible and calling a penalty on it would be shitty.
You should make a top 10 worst calls against the Lions
The 10 worst calls of all time COULD HAVE BEEN all calls against the Lions.
@@peterz22thomas5 Can't think of one that's a wrong call.
Fr😭 so much pain I moved to CFL
@@georgejohnson8674the 10 second turnover during the coaching of Jim Caldwell which ended the game even though 10 seconds was plenty of time to get another few points to win the game
you could do that every week a decade ago, of course those teams made every mistake in the book to not help their cause either.
I disagree with the music city miracle being a "worst call" maybe kinda inconclusive, but not an out right bad call.
I actually say the call was correct. The ball never went backwards lol
It’s been proven that it was a legal play
@@DwayneryIt never went forward either. It doesn’t matter if it goes backward all that matters is that it doesn’t go forward, and when you watch the zoomed in angles on the ball there is no decisive evidence the ball went forward from where it is initially thrown
I agree. I don’t remember this being very controversial. Maybe shortly after. But there is no clear evidence the ball went forward. What happens when it’s not clear? You leave it as called on the field and not what it might have been
@@Dwaynery Actually it did. You see this play has the benefit of occurring right on a yardage line where you with a camera angle parallel to the line and you can clearly see the call travel backwards toward the line a few inches.
To this day I still can't believe they didn't called that interference
It basically ruined the saint future in a nutshell
Jeez, I'll never forget that "Tuck" game! I had family (Patriot fans from Boston) out to the Bay Area visiting me, and we were all watching the game. Me, the Raider fan and them Patriot fans. They all died from laughter when they ruled that call in Brady's favor!
Patriots were 'destined' to win. They committed pass interference [ or holding] on the St. Louis Rams on almost every play, no calls. Then on the final drive for the winning field goal, a Pat was tackled 1 yard from the sideline and rolled out of bound. Refs stopped the clock! [Pats had no timeouts...]
The tuck rule was a rule, I don't understand why everyone has a problem with this one.
@@maildotmjkcause if that was the actual rule. Every QB would just have to tuck the ball back at the start of every play to avoid a funble if we’re to lose the ball.
But they leave out how long it took the refs took . It was the only time I remember commentator’s mentioning the 90 second was way over extended.
Meaning the refs were looking for something that could over turn the call.
I even remember the season after many of the commentators would ask if they were looking to see if the QB tucked the ball . I don’t think they ever called it again but did find out they had called that tuck rule earlier in that season but it was for guess what team??? RIGHT
@@masterdebate "Every QB would just have to tuck the ball back at the start of every play to avoid a funble" That would not help them. Once the ball is tucked, they are subject to fumbling. The rule was when a QB starts the throwing motion, if the ball is knocked out it's a fumble, unless the arm is going forward. They don't want refs to have to guess if it's a pump fake, or an actual throw or the QB changed his mind, or whatever, so if the arm has started going forward and then the ball is knocked out it's an incomplete pass. When is the throwing motion over and the QB subject to fumbling the ball again vs being call an incomplete pass? At the time the rule was the ball had to be tucked. The rule needs to be something which different refs could look at and agree had happened or not happened. It can't be something vague. I don't agree with it, but it was the rule, in black and white. The American Football DB lists 3 time it happened, only 1 of them was for NE.
NFL Rule 3, Section 22, Article 2, Note 2. When [an offensive] player is holding the ball to pass it forward, any intentional forward movement of his arm starts a forward pass, even if the player loses possession of the ball as he is attempting to tuck it back toward his body. Also, if the player has tucked the ball into his body and then loses possession, it is a fumble.
The fact that most people were not aware of it, including me, does not mean it was not a rule.
It was the correct call, you can argue it was a bad rule but it was the correct call by the rules of the game at the time.
You can add the PI on Viledor with 0:42 in the Lions vs Bears Thanksgiving game to this list.
I love how #4 (Dez Bryant no-catch) you actually admit it was the right call according to the rules; it was the rule itself that was bad. That’s a different list, my guy.
Yep
The ball NEVER touched the ground.
But the only reason the Cowboys were there, is because the Lions got shafted the week before in Dallas.
Same with the tuck rule.
@@peterz22thomas5 How? wtf? lmao
Exactly. I'm so sick of hearing people pretend the cowboys got robbed. It was not a catch by the rules that season.
And also, like Peter said, the cowboys were only there because the refs the prior week, picked up a flag for a clear and obvious penalty, after Dez Bryant ran out on the field with no helmet and yelled at them.
Bears fan here...appreciate the Tony Corrente BS call vs Marsh...Marsh who was just promoted off the practice roster makes an AMAZING play, all to have it negated by a referee who wanted to make himself be noticed...killed Marsh's confidence that game and gave Marsh a lot of flak initially for something when he did NOTHING wrong...both Corrente and the NFL SUCK, Corrente for the call, and the NFL for giving that jerk of a ref the Pro Bowl as a reward for his horrible referring at the end of the season...
It didn't help things that one of the assistant coaches yelled at Marsh.
I always assumed Marsh said something to the ref as he headed over, which motivated the ref to move in his way and make the call. But two wrongs never make a right.
You should be able to walk up to the ref and say anything you want except a violent threat
A few things worth mentioning about the lions cowboys game. The illegal touching penalty came much later after a discussion on the field which felt a bit odd. The next day, that referee team was not allowed to officiate the playoffs.
I’ve watched this video for only 4 minutes. It’s amazing, keep up the good work.
- NFL is in bed with gambling
- NFL coaches and player cannot gamble on games, BUT there is NO RESTRICTION on family. (Reminds you of Congress)
- Sports Entertainment is in bed with gambling.
- Sports Entertainments folks are slowly promoting ideas like purposely losing games to get better draft spots. They are normalizing questionable conduct over time.
- There is a clear history of game rigging in sports. Arguing the severity is a distraction from the fact it has happened.
What could possibly go wrong????
"Tanking" or losing games on purpose is indeed an issue. The NBA curbed this to a degree with it's lottery, and the NFL badly needs to do the same thing.
Tom donaghey said the nba was rigging games and he bet along with it, same shit happens in the nfl
Tomlin is guilty. I remember him walking around with a smug little smile afterwards. He knew exactly what he was doing. Where was the getback coach?
Dude is one of the most experienced, savvy coaches in the NFL. He knew damn well what he was doing.
The worst part about #1 is the entire country had to then sit through the most boring SB of all time between the Pats and the Rams who didn't even deserve to be there.
The bad part is you can fill this entire list with calls from just this year the officiating has been that bad. And it's only getting worse
I found it funny that the replacement refs were given such grief over this one play. When the NFL refs came back, they still made the same horrible calls as the focus was back on them. I would say the replacement refs werent all that bad as a whole and they didnt have loads of time to prepare for this role either. One call shouldnt have nullified everything they did or be enough to end a strike, because as soon as he old refs came back in, they were just as bad as before.
Not only that, but they actually got that call right.😊
The problem with the replacement refs is that they accidentally screwed the Packers. Most other teams, it would have been fine, but few teams whine to the league about officiating blunders like the Packers do.
I remember the Lions call last year. I was so pissed. 😡
Two that deserve to be on this list, 1988 wild card game Browns vs Oilers. Browns recover an obvious fumble (it was actually a lateral) refs called it an incomplete pass. Would’ve secured a Browns win. Also, BottleGate shoulda definitely been on this list. Rule number one when it comes to instant replay has always been, once a play has been ran, you cannot challenge the previous play.
Bill Vinovich robbed the 49ers of 2 SB’s.
The first one definitely. The 49ers coaching blew the second one.
Karma for Rice fumbling and getting away with it
The first one the ref had prob bet on the game. Don't think he had a vendetta
You got #1 exactly right. And, based on the mediocre 13-3 play of the Patriots in the Super Bowl, it's blatantly obvious the Saints would've curb-stomped New England in the Big Game for the franchise's second Lombardi!
I don't know about "curb stomped" but they certainly would have put up much more offense than the Rams did!
I wish I could get in a hot tub time machine and make sure that call never happened.
That call was so bad that I wrote a blistering letter to Roger Goodell. I am a Chiefs fan, but that call was so bad that it single-handedly cost the Saints the game. I was in total disbelief that the game even went on.
Looking back on that faithful day, I'm surprised that the fans of New Orleans didn't storm the field in an angrily mob fashion or at least throw trash onto the field.
That Decker call was some BS, Skipper was on his way over, Decker was right there, and the ref started walking away by the time Skipper even got there.
Also, my dad worked Super Bowl XL as a medic, when he got home, we talked about the game, and he was going on about the Seahawks getting hoed the whole game, and he was right.
the Steelers won the superbowl that year that’s all I care about
It would have been easier for the Lions if they had only sent one player over and not three, especially since one of them (Skipper) had frequently reported as eligible earlier in the game. The only reason to send over more than one is to try to confuse the referee. Or they could have noticed when it was announced on the PA that Skipper had reported eligible and said something then.
@@haroldbrooks9821 Yup the Lions were trying to trick the Cowboys, but they tricked the refs instead.
The fact that the ref is walking away when Skipper runs over to the group is how you know the ref's story is bullshit. Because according to the rules, THE PLAYER HIMSELF is the only one allowed to report to the ref they're eligible. So Skipper would have had to talk to the ref at some point, and he didn't... But Decker did. Brad Allen wants people to believe that even though Dan Campbell told him about this play before the game and that he had a minute long discussion with Decker on the sidelines, no one mentioned an extra lineman until Skipper yelled at him "BTW, I'm eligible!".
I'm a Seahawks fan, not a Bengals fan. But the Bengals got screwed in the playoffs two years in a row, at the end of the 2021 season, and then at the end of the 2022 season. The first season, they lost in the SB to the NFL"s desire to build a fan base for the Rams. The next season, the NFL had decided that Patrick Mahomes was their new Golden Boy, so the Bengals got screwed in the AFCCG. In each game, the refs just let the teams play for most of the game. But when the Bengals threatened to actually WIN the game, suddenly there was a flag fest in the last 2 minutes, with all the flags going against the Bengals. Two years in a row the same team got screwed in the same way.
Both games were refereed by Ronald Torbert. I'll describe Torbert to jog your memory: he's a black referee who wears wire framed glasses. He's a little on the pudgy side, rather than muscular.
Not a Bengals fan at all, but I agree. They, like the Saints, don't get hardly any calls. Just look at the game earlier this year where Burrow got hit in the head/face mask on a pass late, and nothing was called.
be honest if the chiefs are going to SB this year whoever they play against, the refs will definitely screw the other team cuz NFL wants that to happen ,just like 2023 wild card game rams against the lions, the last PI no call on puka that one was obvious too, but the league wants that win for the lions because they haven't won a playoff game for 30 years. People like three year in a row on SB so don't be surprised if chiefs got a sneaky win over any team in 24SB
If there's not one on here where the bengals got shitted in either the super bowl or any of the chiefs bengals games than I'm going to lose it
With the exception of #1, these aren't bad calls, just controversial calls. They could be argued either way. The video should include clear and indisputable bad calls, of which there are plenty, like #1.
@scottjohnson7248 the refs in the Seahawks Steelers Super Bowl were clearly biased for the Steelers.
@johnmassoud930 As a lifelong Hawks fan and Washington native, I agree. However, the part on that Superbowl was about a series of calls, some of which are debatable like Turner's supposed push-off. I would be fine if they had just listed the phantom Hasselback low block, as that one was incontrovertible.
@@johnmassoud930 The head referee in that game, Bill Levy, later appeared in Seattle at the start of the season a couple years later and apologized, admitting he and his crew made enough bad calls to changed the outcome of the game. Bill is a fire fighter in his other career, and seemed quite honest, quite humble.
@@scottjohnson7248 I've seen enough videos of that game, and watched it live. Most of the calls went against Seattle and were wrong. There was also a couple that could have gone against Pittsburgh that weren't called. But having seen it several times I do think Ben did score a TD on that sneak. It was very hard to see in the pile, and close, but it looked like he got the tip of the the ball over the line. The call against Jackson was very questionable, extremely nit-picky.
Seattle also made some bad decisions in that game. Clogging the line and missed defensive assignments on the Parker TD. Botching the coverage on the pass by Antwan Randel-El was the biggest one. It was not only known across the league how talented Randel-El was, and that he was a former QB, but that the Steelers used him on trick plays. Otherwise a terrific game defensively by the Seahawks. Offense too. Just look at the stat board.
@@johnmassoud930 Horseshit. There's only one bad call against Seattle in that Super Bowl - the Hasslebeck call. And that didn't in any way decide the game. Yes, that was a terrible call.
- The holding call? We've seen holding called for far less. And even if someone wants to argue that's not holding, it's Illegal Hands to the Face as Locklear's hands hit the face mask. Either way it's a penalty.
- Ben's TD? It's an inch either way and anyone who claims otherwise is kidding themselves. I think it was a TD but frankly there's no real way to tell. So call on the field stands...and it's not like the play was 4th down. So even if that call goes Seattle's way the Steelers still have the ball at the 1/2 inch line.
And as far as everything going against Seattle Horseshit. The refs missed calls that should have helped the Steelers.
- What about Jeremy Stephens' fumble in the 2nd quarter? Instead, it was called an incomplete pass even after he took 2 steps with the ball. That's Steelers ball right there but because the play was whistled dead it was deemed a no call.
- But the more egregious one was the illegal block in the back by 94 against Ben on the Interception return. That call was massively OBVIOUS with no flag. It's as bad as the Hasslebeck call - actually worse, because Seattle scored a TD just 3 plays later.
The refs missed calls on both ends as they do every game. It's just Seattle fans were so butthurt because up to that point they'd never won anything. So yeah, put the narrative of the biased refs to bed. And if anyone wants to debate this, go look at these calls here: ruclips.net/video/1znnQG4eSOA/видео.html
6:09 That Is The Most Rigged Super Bowl In NFL History. Should be 1
Tuck Rule, NOLA No Call, Fail Mary
The Saints' no-call was the absolute worst. If I were Sean Peyton, I would have sat my team down and refused to go out on the field until the NFL corrected that no-call. The entire team would have gone into the locker room. I would have shut down the game in front of a national audience and all the advertisers watching until it was addressed. It literally robbed the Saints of a shot at the Super Bowl.
notice how many times the steelers had help
But ignore the even more times the refs screwed them over with calls.
If you think the refs are purposely helping a team over just being really damn bad overall, you are niave.
@@denisfolcik1373 well what's happened with the chiefs and patriots happened over a very big money pool and specific time frame
@@denisfolcik1373 you're an idiot
@lord_canon no it hasn't. I hate the Pats just so much as most non NE fans do. They weren't having the league rig games for them. Same thing with the Chiefs now.
Do they get the benefit on calls at time, yah, but it's far from getting calls to influence a game.
@@denisfolcik1373 end of the bengals chiefs this year was a booty call, tuck rule was a booty call, etc.
There were a lot of bad calls in the Superbowl between Pittsburgh and Seattle. The last one you mentioned, the holding call, was not a bad call. You can clearly see it here at 7:05 in your video. The offensive lineman is behind the edge rusher and his hand is on his the edge rusher's right shoulder and arm. You can see his fingers on the front of his arm. That's holding.
I like the calls you have listed here ( except for the Mike Tomlin one), but the Snow Bowl FUMBLE should be number one. Both teams had changed offenses and defenses, not a person in the stadium doubted that it was a fumble, and then......a call from New York.
Hands down the most egregious example of game fixing in the NFL, and outside of the Game Six between the Sacramento Kings vs Los Angeles fakers, the worst in sports history.
I'm still wondering who the intended receiver was on that "pass".
No question about the Kings-Lakers being the worst of the worst. Say what one will about him, but Tim Donaghy explained after his arrest and conviction how that game's outcome was determined. Tim passed lie detector tests by the FBI, and an independent test, and even the FBI said once Tim came clean, he spilled his guts and they had zero reason to believe he wasn't telling the whole truth at that point.
@@PhilAndersonOutside yep. Nice to hear from someone else who recognized it for what it was.
Donaghy was definitely the product of a corrupt culture from the top down in the NBA.
I never watched another pro basketball game after that. I'm to understand that they still refuse to make flopping a foul.
Seems about right.
My buddy says the Olympic robbery of Roy Jones Jr should be considered the all-time worst example of fixing. I watched it recently, it was pretty bad.
kobe Bryant was food poisoned while in sac. didn't play well.2 bads cancel out.
@@Daniel-wq8yh LMAO!
I was going to comment after the first 2 clips "you forgot the whole steelers seahawks superbowl".
Happy to see you call them out. Lol
Lost any credibility with the Titans one. That was clearly not forward.
It was.
Agreed
Titans fan
It’s been proven it was a legal play. The ball went backwards from its thrown position to its caught position.
@jonathanstewart4800 by whom? There is definite doubt because of videos like these. I've never seen a video of the actual yardline right in front of the camera. I've seen videos before the yardline and after the yardline that show both.
8:43 Cowboys fans don’t let this go lightly because people still debate it despite the fact that the NFL stated 3yrs later, before revising the catch rule, that it was called wrong and Dez DID catch it.
Yes, I liked how they said " Yes, that was a catch after all ". I broke a TV that day.
The week before that the Cowboys got a gift from the refs when they picked up a flag for pass interference
The fact that the Music City Miracle has been intensely debated is conclusive evidence that it wasn't a bad call.
Just came to make sure the correct worst call was at number 1 and I was not disappointed. Great video!
I’m a raiders fan 😢
Me to smh
I'm a Lions fan😭😭😭
I like how 3 plays determined the Seahawks and Steelers Super Bowl. Like that trick play and Willie Parker’s tds never happened.
The holding call on locklear was legit. If the other bad calls never happen. No one says boo about that call. We've all seen holding called for less. They even had a former official on nfl network review those SB calls, he disagreed with all of them, but that one. But by the time that happened, everyone was already fired up about the previous calls.
@ all calls are subjective.
There's only one bad call against Seattle in that Super Bowl - the Hasslebeck call. And that didn't in any way decide the game. Yes, that was a terrible call.
The holding call? We've seen holding called for far less. And even if someone wants to argue that's not holding, it's Illegal Hands to the Face as Locklear's hands hit the face mask. Either way it's a penalty.
Ben's TD? It's an inch either way and anyone who claims otherwise is kidding themselves. I think it was a TD but frankly there's no real way to tell. So call on the field stands...and it's not like the play was 4th down. So even if that call goes Seattle's way the Steelers still have the ball at the 1/2 inch line.
And as far as everything going against Seattle Horseshit. The refs missed calls that should have helped the Steelers.
What about Jeremy Stephens' fumble in the 2nd quarter? Instead, it was called an incomplete pass even after he took 2 steps with the ball. That's Steelers ball right there but because the play was whistled dead it was deemed a no call.
But the more egregious one was the illegal block in the back by 94 against Ben on the Interception return. That call was massively OBVIOUS with no flag. It's as bad as the Hasslebeck call - actually worse, because Seattle scored a TD just 3 plays later.
The refs missed calls on both ends as they do every game. It's just Seattle fans were so butthurt because up to that point they'd never won anything.
So yeah, put the narrative of the biased refs to bed. And if anyone wants to debate this, go look at these calls here: ruclips.net/video/1znnQG4eSOA/видео.html
The worst referee call in history, without a doubt, is the simplest thing a referee has to do. The coin flip . The Thanksgiving coin flip between Detroit and Pittsburgh where Pittsburghs Jerome Bettis called heads, it came down heads, yet tge referee Saud Bettis called tails. Was an overtime coin flip, with microphones clearly getting Bettis calling it correctly. Detroit was awarded tge choice and won the game after receiving the OT kickoff
who are you even meatriding? he said "hetails" and even admitted it, so ofc Detroit wins it. that's as a STEELERS FAN
I just saw a Podcast video were Jared Goff says he doesn't think that was a pass Interference call when he played for the rams.
Now I'm Glad the lions lost vs the cowboys last year with that ineligible man call on Dan Skipper.
I can’t believe you put the Dallas Green Bay play on there and not the Dallas Lions the week before. What a joke when that was 20 times worse and flat cost the Lions the game. Take this stupidity off.
I was at that game (Lions fan). The whole stadium was completely confused. Neither refs nor PA system announced anything that was going on. Everyone knew it was a penalty. Exiting, I had a number of Cowboys fans come up to me saying we got screwed. That tells you how egregious it was.
Lions tried to get sneaky and tricky with reporting by having lineman running at the refs to make them look eligible - you play with fire and occasionally you'll get burnt.
@@lachlanhabershon4719Different game. They are referencing a Lions playoff game against the Cowboys where the Lions had a pass thrown towards a receiver who was face-guarded by the defender (he basically bear hugged the receiver while never once looking back), and the refs threw the flag just to randomly pick it up even though it was clear as day.
Idk what the lions are crying about.
Weird how the WR is ripping the defenders facemask off and you're complaining about a PI that never existed.
Same with last year, the last lions drive doesn't exist if the refs didn't bail out the lions.
The list is crap, and your eyes really need to be checked.
@@ethankibbey1976 Gotcha - don't know the game you're talking about then!
James Bradbury “pass interference” call was bs. That 2022 eagles team was so good too
It’s wasn’t called a pass interference my guy 😂
Bill Vinovich didn’t , in ANY way, keep a “ low profile”. The NFL awarded him two KC Super Bowls where he and his crew made many calls that easily could have made this video. Congrats to him and KC for tainted rings
and yet you offer no examples to back up your bitterness
4:40 look right here, the ball leaves Wycheck’s hand at the 26, and Dyson catches it right on the 25yd line. Yes, Wycheck was further back, but a lateral is based on where the ball is. This (just like the previous example) was not a bad call.
Yeah, I'd take this out of the list and replace it with the Calvin Johnson no catch which was more egregious than Dez Bryant
i just wish they would help the chiefs more
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This is funny, even for a Chiefs fan. We do get some, we lose some as well. Notice the Chiefs do not argue with the refs about where they spot the ball or the calls that go against them. You might notice that good teams will never say that after playing an entire game it was that one call the refs missed that cost them the game. I hear the noise against the Chiefs. It sounds a lot like the noise against the Patriots and other good teams over the years.
I do love hearing how players and coaches get fined yet a ref threw the game and nothing
Refs get evaluated by a committee that can downgrade them. They don't really make enough money to fine them.
NFL is not far off from professional wrestling. The refs have extreme control over the outcome of a game. You ever hear you can call holding on every play?
6:20 yes, thank you, the entire game was a bad call. I tell my kids the Zebras won this game. It was all about the storyline of Bettis winning his final game in his hometown Detroit. 🤦🏻♂️
In the AFC Championship, TE Jesse James was robbed a TD and the Steelers were robbed a Super Bowl appearance. The NFL APOLOGIZED to The Steelers the very next day!!! That should be NUMBER ONE. It's not even on this list.
The Steelers & The Ravens have been shafted many times by refs in Tom Brady's pockets.
Refs biased for Steelers v Seahawks :( And too often for Patriots. Yes, terrible call v Saints.
Yep. They just had to give the win to "The Bus" in his last game. The refs were so bad they actually directly apologized to the Seahawks.
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Leavy's apology and $5 will get the Seahawks a Starbucks.
@@johnwhite5485 OK? Not the point.
You didn't mention the worst. In the 1965 championship between Green Bay and Baltimore, at the end, Green Bay had a field goal kick which clearly was wide. However, it was called good, the game went into overtime and Green Bay won on another field goal in overtime. The NFL clearly wanted Green Bay to win to polish the legend and legacy of Lombardi.
The music city miracle has been debunked as a forward pass by 2 degrees.
I would add the Ed Hochuli Chargers-Broncos call in 2008. Jay Cutler CLEARLY fumbled near the Chargers’ goal line, but Hochuli ruled it an incomplete pass, blowing the play dead. Despite the Chargers recovering, the Broncos kept possession, scored a touchdown, and converted a two-point attempt to win 39-38. At least Hochuli admitted his mistake during the game, but since he whistled the play dead, there wasn't anything he could do about it.
The Chargers did get their revenge at the end of the year. But it certainly had to sting.
So the Mafia had games fixed for the Steelers ... Then moved to fixing for the Chiefs...
Incredibly predictable to see the Steelers on here benefitting from bad calls three different times. Refs always in Pittsburgh’s pocket.
Sure. Every touchdown we get is called back because of Broderick jones bud
@ 5:12 "the Raiders trailing by 14 points to 20."... Someone who doesn't even know football with an AI voice are the channels i tell RUclips to never recommend again. 😉
what the hell are you talking about?🤦
@CanesProdz trailing by 14 points... to 20... Not how you talk in Football. 'The Raiders trailed by 6 points, 14 to 20.' 😉🤦♂️👍
@@tankeater it’s really not that big of a deal, clearly u have nothing better to do than point out a mistake so micro🤦 get a life💀
@@CanesProdz what about you still converting with something that's so micro in your eyes? Why don't you look up the word 'contradiction,' because you're probably swimming your life in it. 😋
@ i’m so confused what u are saying
I disagree with Tuck being a "bad call". You even said it in the commentary, "according to the letter of the law". Exactly. Meaning the call was good. Just because we decided the rule should change doesn't make the call bad.
The Tuck Rule wasn't changed until a decade after this play. It was last called in the playoffs after the 2010 season.
I think it was in 1999, a Seahawks at Jets game late in the season (might have been the last regular season game). Jets QB runs a sneak from the 1 and gets awarded the TD. Replay clearly shows that his WHITE helmet breaks the plane, but the BROWN football is still tucked down into his belly, nowhere close to the goal-line. No instant replay that year so the TD stood as called... Seahawks loss knocks them out of the playoffs and their head coach got fired. Up to that point in time, the WORST call I ever saw.
I was looking for that one as well. In the end, it was good for the Hawks because, if not for that call, they most likely make the playoffs. If that happens, Erickson doesn't get fired and Mike Holmgren is never hired which completely changes the next 25 years of Seahawks history.
I was at that game. Vinny Testaverde was the Jets QB. Truly heartbreaking as it kicked us out of the playoffs but it was the catalyst for bringing back instant replay, and as jameslucas2498 mentioned, it ultimately resulted in Holmgren as our new coach.
"With the Raiders trailing by 14 points to 20"? Who wrote this crap and how did the narrator not notice how terrible it sounded while doing the VO work?
RUclips has made me appreciate the quality of PROFESSIONAL video makers. Too much content here seems as if it was done as a homework assignment by an average to below average 7th grader.
The call on Tomlin was legit. The last two are just...gross. Even today, many people, coaches, and commentators get "simultaneous catch" wrong insofar as BOTH players must put their hands on the ball at exactly the same time. One player can't touch it, in the air, then another player touches it, also in the air (two players jumping), and have it be simultaneous even if they BOTH land in control of the ball. It has to be simultaneous at the very first moment.
The original Hail Mary pass in 1975 should be on the list.
In 1965 the Green Bay Packers and the Baltimore Colts were tied at the end of the season. At the end of the game the Green Bay Packers kicker according to the referees made a field goal to tie the game in regulation. The Packers went on to win, and win the NFL championship. However, according to footage revealed later the kicker had actually missed the field goal. There was only one referee behind the uprights, so to him it appeared that the football just within the upright. After this there were always a referee behind each upright. This deserves to be on this list somewhere.
Interesting tidbit of information. Thanks for that.
I was there for the Nola no call that gave the Rams a trip to the superbowl. Leaving the stadium was like walking from a funeral. The world saw a fixed NFL game . And sad part is Bill Vinobitch is still calling big games .
I feel the pain.
5:55 is wrong! The play is called the Holy Roller. Not the Immaculate Deception. The latter is what Raiders fan call the Franco Harris non-catch.
Fck yeah you tell this non researching RUclipsr.
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The Music City Miracle was legit. No call should have been made. The camera angle shows it was legal. And even a team of mathematicians verified it.
7:06 "The replay showed no holding"
Show that from the other angle, the one where you can see the hook and the stumble it caused. You can see a bit of it here, but it's way more obvious from the sideline angle. That call was only controversial if you watch only the single replay angle provided.
I have been a Bills fan for forty-five years and I still hate the Titans for that play.
The "no call." Saints fans know pain.
What about the infamous mistaken coin toss call in the 1998 game between the Steelers and the Lions? Steelers RB, Jerome Bettis was clearly heard calling "Tails," the coin landed tails up, and the ref, Phil Luckett said "Tails it is, Detroit wins the coin toss.." Everyone present, including the Lions were clearly confused as Bettis argued he had called tails and Luckett said he'd called "heads-tails."
For starters, hard to claim these are the worst calls in history considering the league's been around since 1920 so I'd guess there have been worse calls. Secondly, I can think of a couple that belong on this list. One is from the 1979 AFC Championship game. Trailing 17-10 Dan Pastorini hit Mel Renfro in the back of the endzone for what looked like a tying score but the officials say he was out of the endzone. Replay showed he got both feet in. The Oilers had to settle for a FG and never recovered. Another was in the 1976 AFC divisional game between the Patriots and Raiders. The Patriots were leading the game but the Raiders mounted a comeback and down by 7 and on 3rd and 18 Stabler threw an incompletion that should have made it 4th and 18 but a phantom roughing the passer call on Sugar Bear Hamilton gave the Raiders new life and they scored to take the lead for good. Finally, in week 16 of 1984 the Cardinals played the Redskins for a chance to win the division and leading 27-26, the Redskins EJ Junior sacked Joe Theisman on 3rd down and the officials called him for roughing the passer giving the Redskins new life which they ended up kicking the winning FG.
Some of these aren't worst calls, just worst rules.
The pass interference flag picked up in Dallas against the Lions was the worst thing I've ever seen.
#1 was a make-ip call early in the game where saints scored a td when brees clearly created illegal motion infraction that wasn't called on third down, essentially giving NO four extra pts assuming the would have made the fg.
Bears - Raiders. Bears intercepted Stabler for a touchdown, negated by an 'inadvertant whistle'.
Your replays STINK w/ all the cuts & edits. Gotta show the play start to end, then focus in on the contact, fumble, whatever, that constitutes the controversy. W/ all the cuts its just a confusing bunch of quick flashes that, if you weren't already familiar w/ the play, you'd have no idea what you're looking at. Music City Miracle for example- you never show the shot RIGHT DOWN THE YARD LINE that looks like a good lateral & even shows a ref in the background waving his arms- he's in PERFECT POSITION, deserves a medal- to indicate no infraction, the lateral was legal. This video is more poorly executed & edited than any of the plays you show
Game is fixed big time
The "Holy Roller" was not a bad call, but a rule that allowed it to happen. Total BS on that. In its place would be the non-call at the end of SB47, where it was an obvious pass interference/holding call that went uncalled, allowing the Ravens to run out the clock.
The other was the 1977-8 AFC Championship game between the Broncos and Raiders. Lytle tried to go over the top and was met mid-air by Jack Tatum, resulting in Lytle being knocked unconscious and the Raiders recovering the fumble. It would have resulted in a Raiders TD on that play, but it was called back, saying that Lytle didnt fumble. Broncos went on to win by 3.
As a Saints fan that #1 hurt and there is no controversy behind it, just a completely missed call that changed the outcome of the game.
Worst non call in the history of sports, PERIOD!
Disputed dual catches always go to the offense. Those are the rules. That one was stupid.
Yep
Music City Miracle was the right call
What about the Bottlegate game?
The Cowboys/Vikings pass interference call in the 70s was worse than number one here. Ref even got a bottle to the head. Also, the Thanksgiving game where the ref said the opposite of the coin flip leading to a loss for the Lions.
As a ram fan, I thought we really got away with one… but then we went on to play the worst superbowl appearance ever and only scored 3 points. Looking back I wished we had lost so I didn’t have to suffer through that miserable performance.
Saints fan here, thanks for your honesty, lol. Even if we went on to win, the refs probably would have went on to screw us out of the Superbowl. Who knows. 🫤
I'd like to add that the 2017 AFC Championship game between the Jacksonville Jaguars and New England Patriots, MYLES JACK WASN'T DOWN.
3:19 that’s because Decker didn’t report. On review, you can hear the ref say it was #70 reporting as eligible, not #68. The defense would’ve been watching for Decker to come off the line if they’d reported correctly. There was no reason they needed 3 linemen to go over there to report; the Lions were being intentionally deceptive, and it backfired.
I remember watching the Lions very clearly tackle Justin Forsett after a minimal gain, only to watch him get up and run for a touchdown. I thought it was a joke until the call was confirmed. I even think the Lions got charged a timeout for trying to challenge and were told they couldn't.
the hip chec k should have got the ref banned
The 2013 NFC Championship game was full of officiating blunders. From play clock to phantom holds.