Packers fans protest outside Lambeau, across nation

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/article/20120925/PKR01/309250258?gcheck=1&nclick_check=1

8:26 AM, Sep 25, 2012


Written by
Charles Davis
Green Bay Press-Gazette


A handful of Green Bay Packers fans protesting today outside Lambeau Field say the NFL’s use of replacement officials caused the Seattle Seahawks to beat Green Bay on Monday night.

“I’m disappointed with the integrity of the game,” Tyler Detke, 22, of Green Bay said this morning as he held green and yellow signs along Lombardi Avenue in front of the stadium atrium.

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Detke believes a Hail Mary pass on the last play of the game from Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson was intercepted in the endzone by Packers safety M.D. Jennings. However, the play was ruled a touchdown for Seahawks receiver Golden Tate, leading Seattle to a 14-12 win. Both players appeared to be jostling for possession of the football.

The referee ruling has sparked national debate about the NFL’s use of replacement officials.

FULL story at link.

[mike_c]

1. good gawd....

You probably couldn't get these people to give a rat's buttocks about real injustice, but they'll PROTEST over a football game? WTF?

[Earth_First]

5. Absolutely agree...

:sigh:

[Omaha Steve]

14. Mike I have had I'm sure over a thousand posts on the DU about workers losing their pensions

I may be venting about the call. But I am also standing up the the working class refs that were locked out. They are not on strike. Just like the billionaire owners did the players last year. The NBA, the NHL,... Think about that please.

OS

[mike_c]

24. I'm not criticizing the messenger Steve...

...and I'm reasonably sure most of those folks weren't protesting the lockout per se-- they were protesting the outcome of the Packers game. I'll applaud any time people come out to support labor. I just don't think that's what was happening here. But in any event, I didn't mean to criticize you for posting the OP, rather I'm dismayed that these folks didn't stand up for the locked out officials BEFORE their dispute interfered with what's really important, i.e. football games.

[msongs]

2. they only protest because THEIR TEAM lost. had the call favored them...no protests nt

[rustydog]

23. You're right. I'm a Hawks fan!!!! But the refs messed up that game big time

The NFL wants to be like a right to work state. They want the right to bust unions (refs first, then players) and have the right to pay them as little as possible.

That aside, Go Seahawks!

[maxsolomon]

3. Seattle's right there with you, Green Bay

It's been so long since you got screwed it must really hurt.

We have been screwed so long that we're numb:
The Mariners
Oklahoma City stealing the Supersonics
Superbowl XL.

In fact, we've been screwed so much that we aren't even happy about winning that game.

The only pleasure I'm taking from this is seeing another American Sacred Cow debased. Because I'm a Debaser:

[maxrandb]

4. After all the fucking destruction the CONservatives have done over the past 40 years

this[/] is what gets people into the streets??????

I weep for my country!

[Berserker]

6. All the teams have

had bad calls this season. The big thing here is you and the rest of the millions of football fans have 13 games left. Time to move on. The packers should not have let it come down to a single play of the game to decide the win and then whine.
The packer fans here in Wisconsin always whine about the officials this loss is nothing new.

[Earth_First]

7. This is the worst argument I've heard in favor of "get over it" yet...

Just.Wow.

[Omaha Steve]

13. Three questionable calls in the last drive after being stuck in mud the entire second half

Roughing the passer cost an interception.

Offensive interference no call.

And the touchdown.

[cherish44]

8. It's a fucking football game

eom

[Alduin]

9. It's a goddamn game that didn't even matter.

WTF is wrong with people?

Want to protest injustices? Protest the fact that 1% of people in this country is controlling 99% of the money. Priorities, people. We need them.

[Initech]

17. Yeah exactly. The owners - referees lockout is a very small part of a very big problem.

And expect it to get worse under Rmoney.

[benld74]

10. Chrimney people! The post may be about NFL fans who are pissed off,

BUT the NFL ref situation is FAR MORE than it seems!

[marmar]

11. Proof that Idiocracy was a documentary.

nt

[Earth_First]

12. lmfao!

[Initech]

15. Really? You had to go there?

As much as I love that movie this is not the place for a reference. The situation in Seattle last just shows how fucked up the lockout between the owners and referee's union is and last night made the situation 1,000,000 worse. I suggest doing some reading before posting a comment like that again.

[marmar]

16. I suggest you lighten up.

This much hullabaloo over football is comical.....and I very much support the refs' union.

[regnaD kciN]

18. I wonder how many of those protesters...

...voted for Walker (twice) and support his war on labor unions...when it doesn't impact their team?

[KurtNYC]

19. This stuff could kill sports book

How many millions in private sports book is being fought over right now. People arguing and refusing to pay, trying to unwind bets.

And who is going to bet next weekend with this kind of unpredictable stuff in the mix.

[Generic Brad]

20. What a pack of whiners

Here's an alternative the Packers could try - win by a large enough margin so that it won't matter when the ref's screw up. That's what Democrats have to do at the polls.

[rppper]

21. Wasn't this the all-mighty Packer team...

...that was putting up 35pts a game last season.....had gods gift to QB's guiding them to 16-0 and the inevitable super bowl win....clinging to a narrow lead against a good but probably not playoff bound Seahawks team? Methinks packer fans should get over it for two reasons(all political aspects aside).....

1) bad calls have happened since day one...it's happened in bigger games...the 79 AFC playoffs(oilers at steelers) comes to mind....

2)every team in the league is going through the same problem, and the same potential for a Crappy ending....

stop crying because Seattle did a Good job of shutting your all powerful packers down and kept the game winnable.....welcome to the basement of the northern division...you have 13 games to work your way out of it....

[Poiuyt]

22. What's ironic is that Wisconsin's anti-union governor, Scott Walker, has called for the return

of the union refs.