After a 5-0 start to the regular season, the Minnesota Vikings have suffered back-to-back losses, including a controversial ending against the Los Angeles Rams on Thursday Night Football.
Down eight points with less than two minutes to play, the Vikings had to travel 95 yards for a TD and make a two-point conversion just to send the game to overtime.
They would not get far as Rams linebacker Byron Young beat two blockers to sack Sam Darnold and score a safety.
However, a replay showed that Young had taken Darnold down by grabbing and yanking his face mask, which should have provided new life for the Vikings with a 15-yard penalty. Darnold’s head was pulled 90 degrees to the left as he was taken down.
This could’ve all been avoided if the league had actually listened to the Los Angeles Rams.
NFL reporter Albert Breer revealed that the Rams have sent “proposals to the competition committee in each of the last 3 years to make penalties on facemasks to QBs, blows to the head, and roughing the passer reviewable.”
They were turned down each time.
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On Thursday night, they benefited from it in a huge way.
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Los Angeles Rams Have Benefited From Bad No-Calls Before
Sam Darnold was sacked in the Los Angeles Rams’ end zone by Byron Young for a safety, but refs didn’t throw a flag for a facemask.
The Rams would win the game as a result.
This is hardly the first time the team from Los Angeles would get away with a bad non-call.
During a playoff game, the Saints got hosed by one of the worst no-calls in NFL history.
With 1:49 left to play in a 20-20 game and the Saints facing a third-and-10 from the Rams’ 13-yard line, Drew Brees dropped back and threw a pass to TommyLee Lewis and Nickell Robey-Coleman obliterated Lewis well before the arrival of the ball.
No pass interference was called, and the Los Angeles Rams went on to win the game in overtime and advance to the Super Bowl.
