I'm a little shocked that such an obvious bad call during a playoff game in any professional sport would be allowed to stand. Game rules should not have loopholes that allow errors this blatantly wrong and impactful to occur.
It is so clearly unfair and erroneous that it invalidates the upcoming winner of the Super Bowl.
This degrades competitive sports into a meaningless display of chaos, the Monte Python of sports. I'm very disappointed that, in an age of relatively advanced technology, we cannot do a better job of officiating a fair game than what happened to the New Orleans Saints.
Can you imagine how angry and upset the Las Vegas participants financially harmed by this mistake must be? What we observed was not really professional sports.
James Linder
Bella Vista
Editorial on 01/30/2019