Google image<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nNickell Robey-Coleman. There was no flag on the play.<\/p>\n
After a few minutes passed, the Los Angeles Rams\u2019 play clock expired before Jared Golf snapped the ball which should have resulted in a penalty but again, there was no flag thrown.<\/p>\n
Later, while running his route, Saints\u2019 wide receiver Tommylee Lewis was tackled by Rams\u2019 cornerback Robey-Coleman, the same defender who appeared to be holding Ted Ginn Jr. earlier in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n
In the NFL, once out of the neutral zone, a defender cannot touch a receiver until the receiver has tried to catch the ball, unless both players are trying to catch the ball.<\/p>\n
According to this rule, since Lewis was tackled before he even so much as turned to look at the ball, the call was evident. Robey-Coleman was supposed to be penalized for pass interference.<\/p>\n
Once penalized for pass interference, the offensive team receives an automatic first down.<\/p>\n
The reason why Saints fans across the country are enraged is because there was only 1 minute, 45 seconds left in the game, and the Saints were third and 10 on their 13-yard line.<\/p>\n
If the pass interference was called then the Saints would have been first and goal with only three yards between them and the end zone.<\/p>\n
Tyler Rogers, a senior education minor from Starkville, Miss., believes that the Saints were cheated and that a pass interference call would have decided the game.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe refs didn\u2019t call a fair game because they honestly cheated the Saints out of the one call that really could have altered or determined the winner of the game,\u201d said Rogers.<\/p>\n
Some New Orleans Saints fans are so outraged about the outcome of the NFC Championship game that they are poised to take legal action. According to Nola.com, there was a lawsuit filed by Tommy Badeaux and Candis Lambert who are Saints season ticket holders.<\/p>\n
In the lawsuit, Badeaux and Lambert requests for some of the NFC Championship game to be replayed which would result in the delay Super Bowl LIII.<\/p>\n
Xavier Harris, a senior criminal justice major from Monroe, La., thinks that the referees got the no call right, and that Saints fans should just move on.<\/p>\n
\u201cNo, I do not think the Saints were cheated because one play does not define the whole game, and I do not think they deserve a second chance,\u201d said Harris.<\/p>\n
As if the pass interference call was not bad enough, Robey-Coleman also got away with a helmet to helmet collision on the same play.<\/p>\n
Hitting another player helmet to helmet is a very serious offense in the NFL, and is subject to serious penalties including a fine.<\/p>\n
According to NPR.org, some Saints season ticket holders are suing NFL commissioner Roger Goodell and the NFL for mental anguish, emotional trauma, \u201closs of enjoyment of life,\u201d and “distrust of the game which has become the National pastime.”<\/p>\n
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