“As a dog returns to his vomit, so a fool repeats his folly”

That was my intitial reaction to the news that Mike Pereira, former NFL head of officials, and the NFL patsy sent forward to explain the Walt Coleman tuck rule reversal in the 2002 AFC Championship game between the Raiders and Patriots, had a sudden change of heart and now thinks the tuck rule is bad for football.

The then NFL sanctioned spin doctor Pereira, couldn’t retreat fast enough from his assinine lectures about how the NFL rule book said something that it didn’t say at all. Attempting to rewrite the NFL rule book, Pereira at the time of the tragically bad call, explained to broken hearted Raiders fans that ”once you pump and bring the ball back to the set position, you can’t fumble. Period.”  The only problem with Pereira’s tuck rule explanation: it’s not what the rule book said…

The tuck rule is defined in Rule 3, Section 21, Article 2, Note 2 of the NFL Official Rules:

“When a player is holding the ball to pass it forward, any intentional forward movement of his hand starts a forward pass, even if the player loses possession of the ball as he is attempting to tuck it back toward his body. Also, if the player has tucked the ball into his body and then loses possession, it is a fumble.”

You can watch and listen to Mike Pereira try and explain the shitty call, and listen as Pereira admits the tuck rule as he has previously explained it goes directly against the intent of the rule itself at the 4:00 minute mark of the video below. Pereira’s tuck rule comments start at the 3:26 mark. What Pereira delicately avoids is that tisky bit at the end of rule 3, section 21, article 2, note 2, of the official NFL rules: “… also, if the player has tucked the ball into his body and then loses possession, it is a fumble.”

Clearly you can see Brady’s arm going forward, then tucking the ball into his body, Woodson delivers the hit, Brady fumbles, and the Raiders go to the 2002 AFC Championship game… until Walt Coleman (with help?) famously ruled otherwise.

Is anyone outside of Patriot-ville capable of lying, and standing by a claim that you weren’t sure Brady had fumbled once he put his left hand back upon the ball and then got hit by Woodson??? If so, I refer you to Oliver Stone, you lying fucking Patsy (pun intended). As Andy reid commented about the tuck rule “when 50 guys at a bar agree its a fumble, its a fumble.”

The Waffle House worthy statement Pereira uttered below was made after last weeks Ravens Chiefs playoff game. Here is Pereira, now a NFL analyst for Fox sports, describing his “now I see the light” moment about the previous stupidity of his defintion of the tuck rule. Pereira’s ridciculously poor spin job at the time of the Tuck travesty, now stands in marked contrast to this statement that actually makes sense. If the QB is not attempting to pass, it’s a fucking fumble. Period. We all knew that, we knew that long before and even after Pereira tried to sell us his spin doctored bullshit…

“2011 Mike Pereira” Discusses the Tuck Rule

(from this 1/11/11 Tuck Rule post on FoxSports.com)   Mike Pereira: Rule 3, Section 2 states “when a team ‘A’ player (passer) is holding the ball to pass it forward, any intentional forward movement of his hand starts the forward pass, even if the player loses possession of the ball as he attempting to tuck it back toward his body.”This was clearly a correct reversal, but is it time to look at this rule? Cassel was not attempting to pass the ball when it came loose. By instinct, referee Mike Carey ruled this a fumble because that’s what it appeared to be. I think it’s time to change this rule. A pass should only be ruled incomplete if the ball comes loose in the actual act of passing the ball. If it comes loose in the tucking motion, then it should be a fumble. I would support a rule change, although it took me a long time to get to this point. I’m sure it’s no consolation to the many Raiders fans around the country.

Bullshit, liar.  That Jack Ruby Pereira, flung himself upon the NFL’s “tuck” grenade is widely known… the rationale behind Pereira continuing to freely pour  a verbal salt bath upon our still festering silver & black wounds escapes me?

This sudden ”I’ve found Jesus” moment about the Tuck rule is simply too late now for Pereira, who basically told Raider nation after the Foxboro Fucking that “you stupid Raiders fans and reporters don’t understand the rules. Just because it looks like a fumble, is called a fumble, and fumble is the obvious intent of the rule, doesn’t mean that it is a fumble.” Pereira went on that day to lecture reporters ala Bellicheck about the Vinny testaverde call earlier in the season. The difference there, that tusky little thing again about Vinny not actually touching the ball with this other hand (“the tuck” for those of us now confused) whereas Brady clearly did tuck. You see Brady actually performed a perfect demonstration of that same tuck motion specifically referred to at the end of the Tuck rule as a fumble… “if the player has tucked the ball into his body and then loses possession, it is a fumble.”

Silly things like the facts haven’t dissuaded Pereira from piping down about the open wound that is the tuck rule yet. So, here then courtesy of the freshly picked scab from Mike Pereira is a…

Tuck Rule tribute in pictures, videos, and words…
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The Fuck Tuck Rule “Snowjob” NFL conspiracy in Pictures:
pictorial tribute to an NFL Assraping, and a pre-ordained Replaytriot dynasty

 

 

 

 

  

 

 

  

 

 The Fuck Tuck Rule “Snowjob” NFL conspiracy Videos:
a Video tribute to an NFL Assraping, and a pre-ordained Replaytriot dynasty

The Tuck Rule “Zapruder” film: shot from a snowy Foxboro knoll

 

Fittingly Phil Collins magical “in the air tonight” was playing in Foxboro Stadium as Walt Coleman stood under the replay hood, deciding the Raiders fate. The magic this time though was not for slaying Bellicheck the Killer pimp, it was “magical mumbo jumbo,” the risky business practices of Coleman (and possibly Tagliabue) altering destiny in the favor of Tom Brady and the Patriots.

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Did  Tagliabue intervene, during the ridiculously long time Coleman took to announce the call?
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Tom “Cruise” Brady Gets Paid with NFL Nookie

This is a purposely BS title, and simply an alternate video for Raiders fans hoping to purge the stench of Colemans call. Resist the urge to put Wayfarers on and proclaim “what the fuck, the Raiders got screwed.” Here is happy hooker Rebecca Demornay seducing Tom Cruise on the train in Risky Business… or picture it as the devil seducing Tom Brady to sell his soul for another play Raiders fans… your call.

 

The Fuck Tuck Rule “Snowjob” NFL conspiracy in Words:

a verbal tribute to an NFL Assraping, and a pre-ordained Replaytriot dynasty

 

The Tuck Rule From ESPN: Skip Bayless ESPN, First Take The following conversation took place on the December 8, 2009 ‘Second Down’ portion of ‘1st and 10′ which is aired daily on the ESPN morning show, First Take. Skip Bayless: Okay lemme back him up. I was at that game in the press box I was working in the Bay Area at the time. And you can dismiss this as classic Raider Al Davis paranoia but Al later told me that he had it on good authority that the league commissioner, Paul Tagliabue, actually participated via phone from New York during the replay review which did go on suspiciously long. I don’t remember what the exact — it was like four or five minutes. It was excessively long to the point I was dumbfounded by the call. I think you [Ritchie and the Raiders] got absolutely robbed. And league officials spent the next week lecturing reporters about how the rule book said something that I don’t think it said at all. They tried to rewrite the tuck rule by saying that once you tuck (brings arm forward in a throwing motion to tucking the ball), I’m sorry, once you pump and bring the ball back to the set position you can’t fumble. That’s not what I think that the rule book says.” JC: Wow! JR: Yeah. SB: The rule book says that if you start to throw and you think twice about it and you try to bring the ball back down and you lose control of the ball it’s not a fumble it’s just an incomplete pass. That’s the tuck rule. Tom Brady had finished tucking. He has successfully thought twice, brought the ball back down cause he almost threw it cause he went back to set position. He had finished – and it was a fumble! It was a strip fumble. The game is o-ver. There is no question the game is going to be over if it’s called. JC: And NFL history rewritten. SB: You got that right.

The Tuck Rule from Wikipedia: Tuck Rule, 2002 controversy Main article: 2001-2002 AFC Divisional Playoff game See also: NFL playoffs, 2001-02 The tuck rule resulted in a controversial finish to an NFL playoff game on January 19, 2002, between the New England Patriots and the Oakland Raiders. In the closing moments of the game in a snowy Foxboro Stadium, with New England trailing by three points, New England quarterback Tom Brady dropped back to pass. Charles Woodson came off the strong side corner blitz to knock the ball out of his hands after he had begun a passing motion, pulling his hand down below his shoulder and touching it with his left hand. Raiders’ Middle Linebacker Greg Biekert fell on the loose football. The officials initially called the play a recovered fumble, which would have sealed the victory for the Raiders. But after instant replay, referee Walt Coleman reversed this call, declared the play an incomplete forward pass, and gave possession back to New England. In explaining the reversal to the stadium crowd and the television audience, the referee stated that the ball was moving forward at the time it was dropped. However, instant replays showed that, at the moment Woodson stripped the ball from Brady, Brady had already brought the football back into his non-throwing hand, which would suggest that the “throwing motion” governed by the rule had already been completed and the play should have been ruled a fumble. In later interviews, the referee stated that it was his explanation, not the reversal, that was in error; the ball was moving backwards when it was lost, but the tuck rule applied. In any case, Patriots kicker Adam Vinatieri later tied the game with a dramatic 45-yard field goal, and the Patriots took advantage of the momentum they had seized, defeating the deflated Raiders in overtime on another field goal and eliminating them from the playoffs. Three weeks later, the Patriots won Super Bowl XXXVI. While the NFL has defended the call, not everybody has agreed. Bruce Allen, who ran the front office for the Raiders at the time of the game, still believes it was a fumble. “The rule itself doesn’t bother me,” he said. “But the way the rule is written, it was a fumble.” Nevertheless, when the NFL’s Competition Committee re-examined the rule after the 2001-2002 season, they made no changes to the rule; Mike Pereira notes that attempts have been made to revise the rule, but such revisions have always proven to be more difficult to enforce than the current rule.

The Tuck Rule From Walt Coleman: Walt Coleman NFL referee “after further review, the QB’s arm was moving forward…” ** Coleman later explained in interviews that it was his explanation, not the reversal, that was in error. Coleman claimed the ball was actualy moving backwards when it was lost, but that the tuck rule still applied.

Random Tuck Rule Commentary: “not one sane person on the planet saw anything but fumble. It was a complete and utter lie.” -random Raidergirls.com comment     “if 50 guys at the bar think it’s a fumble, then it’s a fumble. “ -Mike Holmgren   “I’ve never seen anybody throw a pass with two hands on the ball” - Jim Gruden (Jon Gruden’s father)   “It’s a fumble.” “And they made up a new rule after that. I mean, come on … a lot of money got changed in that game right there.” -Chris Hovan “No matter which side of the officials-against-the-Raiders conspiracy on which you fall, there is no denying that the Patriots dynasty was launched on such a thin thread, and Gruden’s departure from the Raiders — and the team’s ultimate fall back to laughingstock — was set in motion.”  ”If we had won that game, I might have been selling pretzels in the Black Hole,” Jon Gruden said during an interview at the Bucs’ headquarters this week. “You never know what would have happened.” “No, we don’t. But we do know what would not have happened. The Patriots would not have won the Super Bowl following the 2001 season. Perhaps Bill Belichick would not have become a genius, perhaps Tom Brady would not have become Joe Montana.” -Ira Miller, San Francisco Chronicle   “…The “Tuck Rule” has been buried, like the Oakland Raiders’ 2001 championship hopes in the Foxborough snow. While the Tuck Rule isn’t used that often, the UFL listed it’s elimination first in their press release. It’s a fun way to needle the NFL because most fans and players fundamentally disagree with the rule.” -Pro football talk Coleman Flew, Pereira Knew, Tagliabue too - Raiders Fan 182

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A few interesting facts about Roger “The Goods” Goodell, NFL Commissioner: the Grand Poobah

As noted in the previous post, were high on (stop it) Roger Goodell. His reign has seen smart decision making and even smarter marketing. So here’s a few interesting things about Roger “the great” Goodell… (we’d be remiss here not to mention the tuck rule disaster of epic proportions that preceded his arrival: so F you Tagliabue)

Roger Goodell Minutae Bio

Born February 19, 1959. 

From intern to COO… Goodell’s career in the NFL began in 1982 as an administrative intern in the league office in New York under then-Commissioner Pete Rozelle – a position secured through an extensive letter-writing campaign(classic “spammer” makes good story) to the league office and each of its then 28 teams. In 1983, he joined the New York Jets as an intern, but returned to the league office in 1984 as an assistant spin doctor in the NFL public relations department.

In 1987, Goodell was appointed assistant to the president of the American Football Conference (Lamar Hunt), and under the tutelage of Commissioner Paul Tagliabue filled a variety of football and business operations roles, culminating with his appointment as the NFL’s Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer in December 2001.

“Zimmerman Flew, Tyler Knew”

As the NFL’s COO, Goodell took responsibility for the league’s football operations and officiating (gargle my nutsack Walt Coleman… come clean Perreira, talk to me Oliver Stone), as well as supervising league business functions. He headed NFL Ventures, which

 oversees the league’s business units, including media properties, marketing and sales, stadium development and strategic planning. All aspects that “the Goods” absolutely excels in.

Goodell was heavily involved in the negotiation of the league’s current collective bargaining agreement. He had worked extensively with Tagliaboob since the latter became commissioner in 1989. He played an extensive role in league expansion, realignment, and stadium development, including the launch of the NFL Network (blow me “top tier” Comcast) and securing new television agreements as well as the latest collective bargaining agreement with the NFLPA.

 

How  ”The Goods” became Commissioner of the National Football League (NFL)… was elected to succeed the retiring Paul Tagliabue on August 8, 2006. He was chosen over four finalists for the position, winning a close vote on the fifth ballot before being unanimously approved by acclamation of the owners. As Commissioner, he is also President of NFL Charities.

 

Background

Goodell was born in Jamestown, New York, the son of the late United States Senator Charles E. Goodell, a Republican from New York and the late Jean Rice Goodell of Buffalo, New York.

The Goodell family moved to Bronxville, New York, in 1971. He graduated from Bronxville High School where, as a three-sport star in football, basketball, and baseball, Goodell captained all three teams as a senior and was named the school’s athlete of the year.

Goodell is a 1981 graduate of Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pennsylvania with a degree in economics.

 

NFL commissioner selection

Goodell’s selection as Commissioner following the retirement of Paul Tagliabue came as no surprise, but it was not a fait accompli. Tagliabue initiated a substantive, wide ranging search for his successor, appointing a committee headed by owner Dan Rooney of the Pittsburgh Steelers.

Goodell was one of five finalists, joining Gregg Levy, Frederick Nance, Robert Reynolds, and Mayo Shattuck III. With 22 votes from the owners being needed to make a choice, Goodell, who oddsmakers had installed as a prohibitive 2:5 favorite to be selected, only garnered 15 votes to Levy’s 13, with three votes scattered among the other candidates and the Oakland Raiders abstaining.

On the second and third ballots, Goodell and Levy were the only candidates to receive votes (Goodell 17, Levy 14). Goodell increased his lead to 21–10 after the fourth ballot, falling one vote shy of election, but on the fifth round of voting two owners swung their votes to him to achieve the necessary two-thirds majority.  The Oakland Raiders abstained from the voting in each round.

 

Personal life

Smooth and a PIMP… Goodell is married to smoking hot Fox News Channel anchor Jane Skinner and they have twin daughters. He has four brothers, including

 Michael, a long-time partner of Jack Kenny, creator of the short-lived NBC series The Book of Daniel. The Goodell family was the inspiration for the Webster family on the show. <— Got to be a few bar bets to be won with that tidbit of irrelevance.

***so there you have the goods on the Commish. Now Roger, if you desire to add a category named  “Legend of Goodell” to your post poobah autobiography, you simply need to forever stop talking about overseas Superbowls, raise or burn the Cowboys scoreboard (better yet let me go Turk 182 on it), put a 2 game max cap on the preseason, and denounce the Tuck Rule “Snowjob” as the biggest conspiracy in NFL history. Easy peezy.

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