Another problem I have with the NFL….

I'm watching the Packers/Lions game. Favre just hits Terry Glenn for an incredible 47 yard pass. Basically- and there is now way I could do this play justice- Favre hits Glenn around the 20 yard line and then Glenn does this amazing run to get into the end zone. The end of the play has him leaping from like the six yard line in full Superman pose, football extended out in front of him for the score. The amazing thing is Glenn himself doesn't actually make it into the end-zone. In fact, he's knocked towards the out of bounds line but still manages to keep enough concentration that he manages to snake his arm over the pylon as he goes out of bounds.

Touchdown. Great play. The crowd goes nuts. Favre goes nuts and runs half-way down the field to congratulate Glenn. Glenn goes nuts and does the Lambeau Leap. The announcers are even going nuts over the play. And I get four points for my Fantasy Football League.

But wait….there's a review.

I know, reviews are important, but there's kind of a buzz-kill component to it. Everyone's partying and high-fiving each other and leaping, but whenever a review is called, everyone has to kind of stop and wait for the call. So after this big explosion on the field, we now have everyone just standing around waiting for some dorky ref to emerge out of the Peepshow booth and make a call. This is not really exciting to watch.

Apparently, the Ref thinks there's a chance Glenn's elbow went out of bounds before the ball did. So he's checking over and over again to see when Glenn's elbow goes over and when the ball goes over. The TV is showing replays of the play. It's close. It's real close. Even the three TV announcers are saying it's too hard to call. You can't really tell one way or the other, but you do know one thing, that it's an incredible play. An amazing play.

But it gets disallowed. The twerp ref emerges out of the Peepshow booth and announces that Glenn's elbow hit out of bounds a fraction of a second before the ball crossed the line. No TD. All that celebrating, all that partying, all that leaping around- doesn't mean anything. Because some rule on a play that comes down to a smidgeon of a second. And it's not even that close. The fact that the play is really, really close and that Glenn made an absolutely incredible play doesn't mean anything because of that one micro-second and the decision of some 50 yeard old guy who does this part-time. In a fair, more fun universe, Glenn should just get the points just because of his effort.

So the Packers get first and ten at the one and then score on the first play. TD. But it's no big deal. In fact, it's completely anti-climatic because the big play came earlier and everyone had already celebrated.

There's just something wrong about that.

And no, I'm not bitter because I lost four points and it's looking like I'm in a dog-fight of a Fantasy Football matchup.