And now, nothing short of a Tom Brady injury is going to stop Number Six...

Because the NFL just rigged the biggest (and last relevant) game of the regular season.

Patriots beat the Steelers in Pittsburgh 27-24 to seize the #1 seed in the AFC, and it was ANOTHER FUCKING CATCH RULE situation.

And you know what that means:  A catch is whatever suits the NFL's agenda the best.

CBS' Tony Romo and Jim Nantz were wondering why it took so long for the replay call to come down.

Easy -- it was to convince themselves to call THIS in favor of the Patriots!!

1st and goal, just inside the 10 for Pittsburgh, and this happens (and the NFL is finally allowing embedding):


Roethlesberger back to pass, throws the ball to Jesse James (#81 of the Steelers) over the middle, falls into the end zone, call on the field is a touchdown.

But you know what that means:  He has to have control all the way to the ground...

And, as a scoring play, it is automatically reviewed...

And, because James is spinning the ball in his hands as he takes it across the end zone WITH HIS KNEE ALREADY DOWN -- meaning, if he's touched at that point, the play is over, so he has already gone to the ground with respect to that part of being DOWN...

The call is REVERSED, and the Steelers get NOTHING out of it and lose 27-24.

...

Does ANYBODY...

ANYBODY...

Want to still try to be convinced these games aren't rigged and that the Patriots, barring a deliberate injury to Tom Brady, have just won Super Bowl #6 for their franchise and Brady and Belichick?

Again, James gets the ball, and his entire leg and his elbow are on the ground, complete control of the ball!

His leg is on the ground, his elbow is on the ground, the ball has broken the plane of the line.

He "loses control" right at the end, and the referees claim that's enough.

If that's the case, and I'm not joking here, James himself intentionally did it to cause the play to be overturned for the league's agenda.  That call is SO BULLSHIT, there's no other way to come down with it.  He has no reason to even think of flipping that ball in that manner -- he's already "gone to ground", as, if he's touched, he's down at the 1.

So the only reason he could even think of doing that with the ball was an intentional act of "losing control" to get the play overturned.  It's easy (and even my default position) that the refs fucked this up for the Patriots...

But what if this was the actual correct ruling?  The only conclusion one could, then, draw is that James intentionally "lost control" of the ball to create that situation, deliberately rendering the pass incomplete under the Calvin Johnson Rule.

And I don't know which is worse -- it's clear the league rigged this win for the Patriots to give them inside track to Minneapolis (and, IMODO, open up all options in the NFC, including the Home Team Super Bowl or even the Rams!!!) and Super Bowl LII(E).

Wow.  And how many million people cheer this garbage on?