Quote:Seattle Half-back Realizes that Seattle Didn't Win That Game

SEATTLE – Several hours after the completion of one of the more memorable games in Monday Night Football history, Marshawn Lynch was sitting in a private room in the back of the Metropolitan Grill, celebrating a thrilling, last-second victory with friends and family members over big steaks and fat lobsters.

Then, with the flick of a remote control, Big Brother appeared and left a rancid taste in the Seattle Seahawks halfback's mouth.

Packers Tramon Williams (38), Charles Woodson (21) and safety M.D. Jennings (43) fight for possession. (AP)A waitress pointed the remote at the large mirror on the wall behind Lynch, and it suddenly morphed into an enormous, high-definition television screen. Within seconds, Lynch craned his neck and joined his dining companions in viewing a replay of rookie quarterback Russell Wilson's 24-yard touchdown pass to wideout Golden Tate, giving the Seahawks a 14-12 triumph as time expired and sending 68,218 fans at CenturyLink Field into hysterics.

[Dan Wetzel: Roger Goodell needs to immediately clean up NFL officiating mess]

As Lynch watched Packers safety M.D. Jennings snatch the pass out of the sky and pull it to his chest while Tate, who had blatantly pushed off against Green Bay cornerback Sam Shields, belatedly latched on one arm at a time, the running back's eyes grew big and his jaw dropped low. The room was dead silent as the realization gripped Lynch and his companions: Like most of the viewing public, they now understood that the Seahawks had received an extraordinary gift from the replacement officials.

"We didn't win that game," someone at the table said, and nobody made a peep to challenge him.

http://sports.yahoo.com/news/nfl--seahaw...night.html

Quote:Lang's Tweet may be most retweeted tweet ever tweeted.


According to the TwitSprout blog, Lang's missive would be the third-most re-tweeted tweet of all time, behind Floyd Maywether calling out Manny Pacquiao, and Justin Bieber's tribute to LMFAO (yeah, we know). And that's just after 10 hours -- who knows how far the numbers will trend up?

Another Lang post, "Got [bleeped] by the refs.. Embarrassing. Thanks nfl" had 64,288 re-tweets as of Tuesday morning.

Of course, Lang didn't explain exactly why his line gave up eight sacks in the first half, but that's another matter.

And then, there was this.

By our count, that's over 160,ooo re-tweets on three messages from one player on a team that, in the eyes of many, got jobbed on Monday night.

Stuff like this seems irrelevant, but Twitter is the new mode of communication and relation for many people. The NFL is dealing with a severe perception and integrity gap in its dealings with obviously unqualified replacement officials, and the fact that the Twitterverse is blowing up over this incident should not escape the notice of those in the NFL who made the decisions that led to this debacle.

http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/nfl-shutdo...--nfl.html