HAMILTON — The Montreal Alouettes rolled into Hamilton on Friday night looking to cement their lead atop the East Division and they did just that.
Will the League admit they were wrong on the fumble by Tuck? I’ve been actively involved in Canadian football since 1959 and I’m telling you that was a fumble. It cost the Als 50 yards of field position
What camera angle was the Command Center looking at to declare that down by contact?
It never went to the command centre, the ref stated the play was dead, the Als player didn’t recover the fumble in time. Therefore the play couldn’t be challenged or a command centre review
Time Limit on a fumble recovery is what?
Why didn’t Maas challenge?
The Comand center should by rule change be allowed to overrule ANY bad calls by the refs
Since the ref erred in calling him down by contact and no emediate fumble recovery being 100 percent of why the call was wrong in the first place
He was not allowed to.
Did you not hear Maas tell the refs that was just “f@#&ing stupid”
If the Als had lost the game after this, it would have been a huge issue. As it stands, it was just another one of many wrong calls this season by the officials.
Eliminate the Command Centre - just have the monitor on the field like in soccer, where the ref goes over looks at the screen and makes a quick decision, no going to the command centre and waiting 5 minutes for a decision.
It wouldn’t make a difference in this case because the ref called it dead but the reviews need to be speeded up and made on the field.
It just needs the Bikity to review ALL POSSIBLE BSD CALLS.
None of this allowing the ref to make totally bad call and then it unable to be challenged for technicality reasons
I pvr’d the game so we don’t have to watch commercials and half-time but AFTER I posted my statement that this was the worst call in CFL history, just for fun I watched the half-time show to see what the panel said and discovered that Hall-Of-Famer Milt Stegall called this “Possibly the worst call in CFL history” so I think we can all agree that the league should be fined for this. Duane Ford said that the refs were 0 for 2 on this. However, it also brings up another point, which is, why do the referees blow a play dead when it’s not necessary. Sometimes they let the play go on and then review it after the fact and then other times they blow it dead in a huge hurry. There was no risk of injury and no real reason to blow the play dead. Montreal had already immediately recovered the fumble (the ball touching the Hamilton player is a red herring). I don’t blame the league for not explaining because there is no excuse.