No sooner had the kick-in-the-gut-loss of the NFC championship game ended for the New Orleans Saints than the NFL was on the phone with coach Sean Payton, ringing him up to talk about what everyone else was discussing: officiating.
It wasn’t so much the game or the performances that had people talking, and that’s a shame in one of the three biggest games of the NFL’s season. Instead, one team is left with a loss that will sting for some time.
Pro Football Talk reported, citing an unnamed source, that the NFL would publicly admit that a pass-interference no-call was an error.