Forward (Prediction for 2014) and Backward (Week 16): Football as "Calvinball"...

I said it in my original discussion of the debacle at Lambeau earlier this week, and then one of the readers of my blog pointed out that there was a nice little meme about just that...

"Calvin and Hobbes'" "Calvinball...

A game with only two rules:

• No two games can be identical.
• You must wear the Calvinball Mask.

(And then that same reader just pointed out another thing:  The uniform violation policies of the NFL vs. "The Calvinball Mask"...)

All other rules are made up on the fly.

It's too perfect.  And the NFL has had two more examples of it in Week 16, and nobody is going to be able to do a damn thing about either.

• The NFL admitted the clock started early on the Green Bay-Pittsburgh situation.

DUH!!  If the clock starts, the ball is Ready For Play, so they can snap it ...  unless your idea is to ensure a Steeler victory.

• And now word from Denver that the Blessed Fiftieth Touchdown Pass which aided Peyton Manning (2013 Sportsman of the Year, by the by) to the new passing touchdown record (with an entire week to spare) should not have counted.

Skip a part of this, especially with the Bronco fan going off, that's not the point...

At about 40 seconds, watch the replay (mute the guy if you have to)...

Conveniently, they cut off the video just as he steps out of bounds on his second step in the end zone with the ball.

Yep, the NFL let the Titans know that that call was wrong too.

Prediction for 2014:  The Super Bowl this time around will be OPENLY decided by bad officiating.  This will make Pittsburgh-Seattle look good in comparison.