Even Worse Than Seahawks Fans
Ravens fans, do kindly enjoy a frosty mug of Shut the Fu*k Up on me. Do we have to go through this every single time your team loses? I’m pretty sure the Patriots got flagged once for hitting Joe Flacco in the head too. Perhaps you should be training most of your blame on stone hands Mark Clayton.
Tags: sorry patriots fans - you don't-ah want to sit this-ah scum, Waaaaah, xmas ape
October 4th, 2009 at 7:12 pm
I can’t QUITE muster the appropriate level of batshit craziness to fully understand this quote by Ed Reed:
“When Willis had his fourth-down try, it probably wouldn’t have been a first [down], but it probably should have been a little closer,” he said. “The [Patriots'] spots, the guy stepped out of bounds. Even though we got the penalty on that fourth down when they faked the field goal, the guy stepped out and he reached the ball. Certain things like that. Like I said, you have to play the game.”
So, you admit that the refs made the correct calls in both of these instances and yet they were still out to screw you?
October 4th, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Meh, no way. Nobody rigs games like Yinzer refs.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
I don’t know what the Ravens are complaining. It’s not like they play in the NBA.
Oh and Rex Ryan called and he canceled the pussy tubing. You hear that? PUSSY TUBBING HAS BEEN CANCELED!
October 4th, 2009 at 7:26 pm
Just a moment…Peter King and Keith Olbermann just had a conversation on Football Night in America….where does this rank in the annals of fuckfaces communicating with idiots?
October 4th, 2009 at 7:30 pm
Didn’t the Patriots get a roughing the passer call too?
October 4th, 2009 at 7:31 pm
Crying about the refs is the most disgusting thing a fan can do when their team loses, let alone when a paid reporter does it.
Shut the fuck up, you lost, it was fair, get the fuck over it
October 4th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
Fuck You Ravens Fans!!! Oh yeah, and the Broncos are 4-0. I’ve got SuperAids and I want to give it to everyone I know!!! 4-0!!!
October 4th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
Finally, Ravens and Seahawks fans can get together and bitch about something and can leave the other 99.9% of NFL fans the fuck alone.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:37 pm
I’m waiting for Seahawks fans to complain about Fetushead getting Mike Carey to fuck us.
/only Seahawks fan to blame Holmgren for Super Bowl
//still hates the Steelers
October 4th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
After hearing Phillip Rivers go all PHILLIP RIVERS on Bob Costas in that interview, the entire real life connection of the man (Rivers) and the legend (Marmalard) seems lost.
Jesus, that voice caught by bigger surprise than the best of traps
October 4th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Mike Preston isn’t a Ravens fan, dickhole.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:44 pm
But you are Nest and you whine about the refs all the time
Or did you forget this?
http://www.bmorebirdsnest.com/?p=247
October 4th, 2009 at 7:45 pm
“Nobody would ever consider me a Raven’s homer”
/writes for Ravens blog
October 4th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
NestMinder Says:
October 4th, 2009 at 7:40 pm
Mike Preston isn’t a Ravens fan, dickhole.
Right… it’d be silly to think the guy writing for Ravens Insider would have ANY bias whatsoever in what he was writing…
/wanking motion
October 4th, 2009 at 7:46 pm
Giselle Bundchen gets flagged for roughing the Brady all the time.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Fuck, I hate those throwback jerseys
October 4th, 2009 at 7:50 pm
Yeah, you see how you scum.
SUPERAIDS!!
October 4th, 2009 at 7:51 pm
It’s clear that Witten must be picking up Romo’s scraps and giving Jessica the hammer. How else to explain going to “some guy” against Champ on the final two plays instead of his former best friend forever?
/Bronco fan
October 4th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
I love it. Broken record from ‘07 when they lost to Patriots in Baltimore. Even when teams actually do get screwed by bad officiating it makes them players, fans, and media who whine about it sound like 8 year old bitches with scraped knees.
This is even worse because it looked to me like there was 1 bad roughing the passer call- and maybe 1 bad spot. That’s it. The second roughing the passer call was so blatant it was the first time I’ve ever agreed with the new diving below the knees rule. The first roughing the passer call was lame- but the Patriots got called for the same thing, hitting the QB’s head, on a 3rd down earlier in the game so thats a wash. So really- they’re bitching about 1 bad spot- so shut the fuck up.
If I were a reporter listening to Ray Lewis bitch I’d respond every time with, “Yeah well, you were complicit in the fatal stabbing of two people, and never served a day in jail, so… like Karma dude, you know?
October 4th, 2009 at 7:52 pm
Ravens Insider is on the Baltimore Sun webpage. He’s just a reporter. I’ve been reading Mike Preston rip the Ravens week in and week out for a decade. Trust me, he’s got no problem calling them out for every mistake. He takes pride in not “drinking the purple kool aid,” and blabs about it incessantly.
And yes, screw Mark Clayton for picking the worst possible time to do his best Limas Sweed impression.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:55 pm
Don’t the Ravens know that the roughing the passer penalties are really only there to protect dreamy quarterbacks? Shave the unibrow and you can get protected, too, Flacco.
October 4th, 2009 at 7:58 pm
So what’s your excuse for whining about the refs, Nest?
October 4th, 2009 at 7:59 pm
So what’s your excuse for whining about the refs, Nest?
It’s a Sunday and the Ravens lost?
October 4th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
I’m a ravens fan but I have to agree that bitching about the refs is the most pointless bs in sports. If Mark Clayton makes that catch, no one calls out the refs. Time to watch marmalard pick apart the steelers d.
October 4th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
As a Pats fan, I’ll say that there were a couple of questionable pass interference calls in the game that were called on the Ravens. One was offensive on Derrick Mason and the other was on a Ravens DB who hit Welker at some point in the 4th quarter, I think it was on the final drive. The 15 yard penalty on Harbaugh was also a bit ridiculous.
I didn’t see any favoritism on the roughing calls, I thought they were pretty even. I definitely didn’t see any clear cut cases of the Pats roughing the passer that the Ravens missed. As for the spots, the McGahee one was fine, he didn’t get that first down. As for the fake field goal, that was pretty damn close and I don’t think any of the replays were definitive.
October 4th, 2009 at 8:21 pm
It’s embarrassing to the league…you know, like rewarding a murderer with millions of dollars.
October 4th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
But Ravens fans definitely do complain a lot:
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/266386-stop-fixing-games-and-start-fixing-the-officiating
October 4th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Sweater dresses are hot
October 4th, 2009 at 8:29 pm
You just have to plan to be better than the officials. The Orlando Magic did it against Lebron this last spring; the Rays did it against the Red Sox last fall. Anyone expecting life to be fair should be watching events without fan bases that dictate attendance, merchandise sales and TV ratings to a money-hungry league. Try chess.
October 4th, 2009 at 8:33 pm
You just have to plan to be better than the officials.
Thank you, Tim. Home cooking is standard issue in the NFL. It’s been around forever, and every team gets it. It’s just that you seldom notice it with shitty teams, because they’re unable to take advantage of it.
October 4th, 2009 at 8:34 pm
He didn’t get both feet in. Why no challenge?
October 4th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
5:37 (Mike Preston, Jackass) “Lewis went off in the locker room for about five minutes”
5:42 (AP)- “15 Baltimore Ravens players were rushed to a local hospital with stab wounds after a loss to the New England Patriots”
October 4th, 2009 at 9:07 pm
You know what’s embarrassing, Ray? The way you consistently act like a holier-than-thou Christian who at the very least lied about you’re involvement in a murder where you clearly bared false witness. So that’s three Commandments. You play on the Sabbath, so that’s another one. Also, you have two families, so that’s adultery. Currently, you can’t run down a slow QB with a bum wheel, so you covet speed. That’s another Commandment, fuckface. I’m not sure, but my scorecard has you at five of ten. Do you honor your mother and father? DO YOU?
Plus, the fucking Ravens OL was holding all damn game.
October 4th, 2009 at 9:13 pm
I love when Ape talks about the Ravens. He’s got a lot of forks and knives and he’s gotta cut something.
October 4th, 2009 at 9:27 pm
Can someone help me out here? I need to come up with $500 more for the refs.
October 4th, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Well everyone should have known it would be a officiating disaster as soon as Ron Winter made his first appearance. Watching a Winter-officiated game, even as an impartial observer, really tests my sanity.
October 4th, 2009 at 10:02 pm
I’ll admite, I thought it was a horribly officiated game. But I don’t think the refs were favoring one team over the other. I don’t like it, but bad calls are part of the game. Until we replace aging men who are promoted by seniority with superintelligent robots with laser measurements, it’ll continue.
I thought the penalty on John Harbaugh was ridiculous.
October 4th, 2009 at 10:23 pm
Coming from a Ravens homer
The officiating was terrible on both sides of the ball.
I felt the Ravens got shafted a little more than the Patriots, but not enough to BAWWW about it in a blog. It happens.
Some of the no-calls were even worse than the officiating. And the fake field goal debacle is an officiating fuckup I will never ever forget, even if it really didn’t matter.
They’re both good teams. This game will not probably not matter come December / January. Both teams will at least get wild card spots.
The NFL should be ashamed for continuing to pay that retard Ron Winter to “officiate” games. Shit ALWAYS goes wrong when he’s in charge. I have no clue why he still has a job. For the love of all that’s good, please keep him from working the playoffs this year.
Next week’s game is infinitely more important for the Ravens anyways. I hope the officiating is better then, when it really counts.
October 4th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
they should be bitching about the entire patriots D throwing endless chop blocks and cheap shots like it’s their job and never getting flagged for it.
seriously, the pats throw out more kneecappings than the IRA.
October 4th, 2009 at 11:47 pm
“Thank you, Tim. Home cooking is standard issue in the NFL. It’s been around forever, and every team gets it. It’s just that you seldom notice it with shitty teams, because they’re unable to take advantage of it.”
WHAT A LOAD OF CRAP THAT POST WAS – F’ING STUPID.
Ron Winter is the absolute worst ref in the NFL. I can’t believe this guy’s a ref. My kid could do a better job than him.
I’m not even a Ravens fan.
October 5th, 2009 at 12:13 am
One of the finer spots the pats got this year….vs the bills on Monday night…
http://touchdown.org/new-england-patriots/hometown-first-down.php
October 5th, 2009 at 1:53 am
My knowledge of the NFL rules is pretty much all gleaned from various iterations of the Madden series, and while I blame McClain (or Clayton, whichever it was that dropped the fucking pass because he was trying to run before having the fucking ball, my memory don’t not remember so good no more), I also blame Brady for apparently having a body made out of fibreglass and candyfloss. I move he be forcibly retired and put up as an exhibit in a giant padded cell, where he can run around and throw without ever getting a hangnail from them mean nasty other players. Until the day Ray Lewis carves his way through the padding and stabs him once for every point New England have ever scored, by the end of which he is less a man than a teabag of blood and organs.
My murder fantasies are rather elaborate.
October 5th, 2009 at 7:56 am
Bringing up Ray’s incident early in his career shows a lack of originality and clear thought. It happened what 20 years ago and the guy hasn’t been close to being in trouble once, right? LET IT GO.
I don’t like the roughing rules but the refs did get them right. Don’t blame them for enforcing stupid rules.
It was an exciting game between two very good teams. Good enough for me.
October 5th, 2009 at 8:09 am
http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/The-Baltimore-Ravens-do-not-care-for-your-stupid?urn=nfl,193896
Hey Ape, whats that I hear? Its a mainstream blog writer from yahoo whos not allowed to take sides for no reason! Hmmmm, I’m noticing a patern here. ANd a steelers fan commenting on all of thi is totally non-bias
/ not a ravens fan, just a steelers hater
October 5th, 2009 at 8:43 am
Because Steeler fans NEVER EVER QUESTION A SINGLE CALL, and Hines Ward has NEVER EVER COMPLAINED ABOUT NEW RULES THAT AFFECT HIS POSITION.
October 5th, 2009 at 9:02 am
Because Steeler fans NEVER EVER QUESTION A SINGLE CALL
Well obviously.
Seriously though, Ravens fans have basically blamed just about every one of their losses in the last two seasons on the refs. The fact that their players are indulging in it too is kinda sad.
And by sad I mean great fodder for ridiculing them.
October 5th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Hey Ape, whats that I hear? Its a mainstream blog writer from yahoo whos not allowed to take sides for no reason!
ZOMG THE WEEKEND GUY AT SHUTDOWN CORNER THOUGHT THE CALLS WERE IFFY! THEN IT MUST BE SO!
/has written for that “mainstream blog” too
//MJD runs it and he frequently mentions he’s a biased Chargers fan
October 5th, 2009 at 9:16 am
The fact that their players are indulging in it too is kinda sad.
The players are what drive it, the fans just feed off of it. It’s a big cesspool of paranoia. Put them in silver and black and a guy with an eye patch on their helmets, and they’re the Raiders.
October 5th, 2009 at 9:46 am
You can trace the paranoia back to being snubbed by Tagliabue in ‘93. Not that this “museum town” holds a grudge or anything.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:06 am
As a Ravens fan, I thought the calls were borderline, particularly Suggs touching Brady’s knee (looked to me as though he was blocked from avoiding the Dreamboat). Do either of those get called if it’s Jason Campbell instead of Tom Brady? Maybe, maybe not.
What’s more ridiculous is that the question even exists in the first place. If you have to tackle NFL quarterbacks, they are going to get hit. Often. If you want to protect them from taking hits after they throw the ball, don’t penalize guys for already having all of their forward momentum towards the QB – physics don’t work that way (I know the NFL is wary of science, since it also proves that they owe a crapload of money to their former players, but c’mon). Just give them some flags to hang off of their waists, or as Ray Lewis suggests, give them those same suits by Olympic saberists that flash and buzz when touched, so all you have to do is tap him.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:10 am
Fine, if Ray-Ray thinks the rule is stupid, he should have said something when it was implemented. Don’t only start bitching when it bites you in the ass. And from the games I’ve watched this year, the officials have been fairly even with enforcing the Brady Rule. I’ve seen it called with a lot of QBs this year.
October 5th, 2009 at 10:48 am
“You can trace the paranoia back to being snubbed by Tagliabue in ‘93.”
Pretty much.
Please stop judging the whole of Maryland by looking at some idiots with an unfortunately very public platform to speak from. I guess this is what not having a team for 12 years does to a fanbase.
I’m also sure Lewis realizes that there’s a lot more to the game. He didn’t say “We would have won without those penalties,” he just said that those penalties were really lame. There’s too many what-ifs to think about how the game could have been different without those penalties. The entire course of the game could have been changed, and the Patriots still might have won.
Whoever wrote that Yahoo sports article has disqualified himself from having a credible opinion by saying that “…while I think some officiating crews tend to be made up of bumbling dolts, Winter’s crews have been better than average in the games I’ve seen over the last few years.” What a crock of shit.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:00 am
being a ravens fan, it touches my heart that you spend so much time scouring our blogs looking for content to mock here. And I thought you just didnt care about us!
“Fine, if Ray-Ray thinks the rule is stupid, he should have said something when it was implemented. Don’t only start bitching when it bites you in the ass.”
ummmmm….have you paid attention to anything he has said over the last 5 years?? Go and dig up some off-season interviews from him….he has been complaining about this for a loooooong time, and not just when we lose because of it. His general point has been that the NFL is taking to many pains to protect offensive players because the NFL would rather have high scoring games. Its not a “NFL vs the Ravens” thing….its an “NFL vs Defenses.”
Also, yeah here in Baltimore we like to complain about refs/umps. Every sports fan complains about the refs when said refs make it harder for their team to win — its just that happens more with the Ravens than some teams, so you hear us complain a lot more. Did Shitsburgh graciously accept the coin flip from that one game 10 years ago? No, you all bitched and moaned, and the NFL changed a rule for you. Since then, you all haven’t had much to complain about. Although, yins still manage to complain about all the apparent non-holding calls of Harrison.
I’m curious how you all will feel after having your players come back on the field after being in the locker room for 10 minutes cause the refs “Reviewed” a missed field goal at the end of a game. Or they explain a TD made against you at the end of the game using rules that have nothing to do with what defines a TD.
Wow….now i feel like a total douche bag for ranting so long. FML.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:06 am
Arguments for both sides have merit. Don’t blame the Baltimore Sun. That’s just Mike Preston’s opinion. Sun writer Ken Murray also posted this:
“Roughing the passer penalties on Haloti Ngata and Terrell Suggs. The Ravens should have no complaint with the penalties. They were valid by the rules: no hitting a quarterback’s head, no hitting his knees. Ngata’s left hand struck Tom Brady’s helmet; whether through force or good acting, Brady went to the ground and had to adjust his helmet. Suggs hit Brady’s knee on a pass in the second quarter and that’s a no-no this year. Both penalties helped set up Patriots’ touchdowns.”
http://weblogs.baltimoresun.com/sports/ravens/blog/2009/10/have_to_play_better_to_beat_new_england.html
And a couple of other people agree with Preston:
Peter King: “We’re going to hear lots of grumbling from Ravens fans, and some in the media, who feel like Baltimore got jobbed Sunday. I know the guys in the NBC studio sure feel the Ravens got jobbed.”
Jimmy Traina: “Referee Ron Winter has to have at least $10,000 on the Patriots today. At least.”
October 5th, 2009 at 11:16 am
i dont really think the Ravens got jobbed in this one. The roughing the passer calls were legit based on what the rules are. Flagging Harbaugh was complete shit, but that didnt affect the game. The fake field goal call was ridiculous only because they made Harbaugh challenge the play before they would tell whether it would be a first down or not if they declined the penalty. CBS didnt really even try to show us where the ball would be spotted, so i dont know if it was a good call or not to say it was a 1st down.
They probably should’ve called roughing the passer on the play that sent Gaither to the hospital and should’ve called pass interference on the throw to clayton at the end of the game in the endzone (his left arm was clearly being held), but those are common calls that refs miss, so I cant say they cost us the game.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:24 am
I’m pretty sure Harbaugh only got flagged because the camera picked up him yelling “THAT CALL WAS BULLSHIT!”
October 5th, 2009 at 11:32 am
http://espn.go.com/boston/columns/blog?name=reiss
“Was it a bad hit? No way. He barely even touched me. The refs were calling it pretty tight yesterday. That crew has been known to call it tight. Coach Belichick told us before the game [that crew] called the most penalties in 2007, they had called the most penalties in 2008, and they were on pace for second this season. So we knew they were calling it tight.”
Do you think Harbaugh had a conversation with his team about how iffy these refs were? Do you think he even knew?
October 5th, 2009 at 11:33 am
Ape, your point about Ravens fans — that they are whiny little bitches who think there is a vast conspiracy aligned against them — is mostly correct, but using a blog by Mike Preston to make said point is semi-retarded. Preston is probably the most hated journalist in Baltimore specifically because he is not a homer, because he regularly wipes his ass with the purple and gold robbery bandannas people don here without any sense of irony. If even he is bitching about the refs, I’m inclined to at least listen. There are, literally, hundreds of other assholes with bloggy blogs who could have made this point for you.
Ravens fans’ crying has also managed to overshadow a much-needed point of discussion here: The league has apparently decided Tom Brady’s Vagina must be encased in glass at all times, and those who brush up against it will be sternly reprimanded.
October 5th, 2009 at 11:34 am
McNulty – Noted. That’s why I added the link to the Bleacher Report four-page conspiracy rant. It’s a tasty multi-course dinner of sour grapes.
October 5th, 2009 at 12:17 pm
I am now imagining Tom Brady wearing some sort of diamond chastity belt beneath his skirt
No more kids for you, dreamboat
October 5th, 2009 at 12:41 pm
“Did Shitsburgh graciously accept the coin flip from that one game 10 years ago? No, you all bitched and moaned, and the NFL changed a rule for you. Since then, you all haven’t had much to complain about. Although, yins still manage to complain about all the apparent non-holding calls of Harrison.”
Thank you. If they’re going to complain about Harrison getting held on every play throughout the playoffs, I would hate to see the size of the meltdown if it actually cost the Steelers a game.
October 5th, 2009 at 12:53 pm
Well, let’s put this way – the Steelers have lost two closely contested games this year and, while there are bad calls and non-calls in any game, I haven’t seen an outcry in either case that the fans felt the team was “robbed.” Meanwhile, the Ravens have lost one game and their fans are already bringing out the conspiracy theories.
October 5th, 2009 at 1:15 pm
But that’s where my car keys were!
October 5th, 2009 at 3:04 pm
The Ravens had a chance to win the game but fucked it up. End of story.
October 5th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
“I’m pretty sure Harbaugh only got flagged because the camera picked up him yelling “THAT CALL WAS BULLSHIT!””
Are you retarded? How is a ref on the field going to know what gets picked up by the camera?
October 5th, 2009 at 3:06 pm
Are you retarded? How is a ref on the field going to know what gets picked up by the camera?
BECAUSE IT’S ALL PART OF THE CONSPIRACY!
/Ravens fan’d
October 6th, 2009 at 3:23 am
@Todd Heap’s Bible:
Ever heard of a “Jumbotron”, dickhead?
Please keep your stupidity contained, eh?