As I have pointed out, it’s not just me talking about how the refs have stolen or tried to steal games from the Packers this year. The NFL has admitted this, Peter King talked about it, the announcers talked about it, and here is another unbiased, independent source saying the same thing.
A friend called to say he heard Rush Limbaugh’s show shortly after the Packer-Cowboy game, and Rush was talking about how the Packers got robbed. He said Rush is a Steeler fan, so he had no agenda regarding what he was saying. My friend said that Rush said there were terrible calls against the Packers and the Packers were robbed.
Here is part of what he told a caller:
Rush: “You didn’t see the game, but what you ought to take out of the game is the Packers got jobbed on two bad calls.”
Caller: “I agree. They sounded bad over the radio.”
Rush: “They got jobbed. The point is they were in this game even without Favre and without Woodson and without KGB.”
We know there were more than two bad calls, but the two he was referring to were the Al Harris strip and the pass interference call midway through the 4th quarter.
Homefield advantage throughout the playoffs was probably decided by these calls, which again affects the Packers in a negative way. As I pointed out prior to this year, this has happened many times during Favre’s career.
1. Jeffrey Wilson on December 16th, 2007 4:17 pm
You’re actually quoting Rush Limbaugh in your Sportstruths.com blog? The guy who was fired from ESPN within weeks of his first job as a sports analyst for making incendiary comments about black QBs? The guy who admitted buying painkilling drugs illegally, and getting prescriptions falsely? And, he was engaging in a conversation about someone who didn’t see the game who admitted that they “sounded bad on the radio?” A guy who knows more about nothing when it comes to football than anyone.
Not a good place to be in Larry. Not good.
2. Larry on December 16th, 2007 4:54 pm
I’m not defending Rush Limbaugh or agreeing or disagreeing with him. My point is that another national unbiased observer saw that the Packers were robbed by the refs in a game that could determine homefield advantage.
3. Lynn on December 17th, 2007 8:53 am
Rush Limbaugh???! I see the folks at sportstruths.com have sunk to a new level using Rush Limbaugh to support their argument when he knows nothing about sports or truths. Very disappointing.
4. Jeffrey Wilson on December 17th, 2007 10:10 am
Lynn is right. I guess we’ll be adding William O’Reilly’s comments to our commentary circle now. I guess I’ll have to take another look at my comments to see if they lean too far to the left now. Then again, I am a sports official, so I’m not biased in the first place.
5. Jeffrey Wilson on December 17th, 2007 10:15 am
Oh, and to call Rush Limbaugh an “unbiased observer” is like calling Anna Nicole Smith a “beacon of purity”.
6. Anonymous on December 18th, 2007 8:17 pm
She wasn’t?