Gonna take your ball and go home

Saints fans want the NFL Commissioner to invoke an obscure and never used rule to force the NFC Division game between the Saints and Rams to be played over.  They have sued in court to try to get a judge to order Goddell to do just that.

See, a referee in the game missed an obvious call of pass interference.  The penalty would have kept the drive going for the Saints who would have either scored a touchdown putting the game out of reach for the Rams, or would have burned up the clock before the Saints kicked a field goal, preventing the Rams from tying the game before winning in overtime.

Because a human missed a call, as has happened since football games began, some fans want a do-over.

If it is so ordered and the Saints win, do you really think the Ram fan will just roll over and accept the new outcome?  Really?  The Rams are in California—the very heart of all of these social upheavals.  No, the Rams will find a real or imagined blown call and demand the game be played a third time.

This is classic current-day American culture now.    I’ll accept no outcome until it is the one that I like.  There are no winners unless it is me.  There are no losers unless it is you.  But then, in today’s society, there are no losers; only participants.

Here’s the only real solution.  Make the Patriots play and beat both teams.  Then scrutinize the film until you find a secret handshake, an obscured wink between officials and players, or find a ball slightly deflated well after the game.  Then the Patriots can be stripped of the title.  Of course, you’ll have to award it to both the Saints and Rams.

We’re so screwed.