Saints fans file lawsuit to replay NFC championship game after missed call
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Source: The Guardian
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In the legal equivalent of a Hail Mary pass, two New Orleans Saints season ticket holders have asked a judge to reverse the result of the NFC championship game that sent the Los Angeles Rams to the Super Bowl, or order a replay.
Tuesday’s state court filing says the NFL commissioner, Roger Goodell, should implement a league rule governing “extraordinarily unfair acts.”
Rule 17, Section 2, Article 1, of the NFL guidelines state that the commissioner has the “sole authority to investigate and take appropriate disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any club action, non-participant interference, or calamity occurs in an NFL game which the Commissioner deems so extraordinarily unfair or outside the accepted tactics encountered in professional football that such action has a major effect on the result of the game.”
Remedies include reversal of a game’s result or the rescheduling of a game in its entirety or from the point when the act occurred. However, Saints fans may be disappointed by Article 2, which states that, “The Commissioner will not apply authority in cases of complaints by clubs concerning judgmental errors or routine errors of omission by game officials. Games involving such complaints will continue to stand as completed.”
Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/jan/22/new-orleans-saints-fans-lawsuit-nfl
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