We Don't Get The Calls, Do We?

[Hunter Morrow]

I was just rewatching the Christian Ponder "fumble" thing. Not only would that not be a fumble, that would be some absolute b.s. "roughing the passer" penalty if that was some Golden Boy Breakfast Cereal Box/Retarded Commercial Quarterback.

I think of the tipped ball interception at Green Bay that was waved off and it seems to be the same thing.

The Christian Ponder end zone dive meant he was treated as a running back but if Peyton or Eli Manning, or Brady or Brees or Rodgers or RGIII took that hit it would have been Unsportsmanlike Conduct/Unnecessary Roughness:Blow To The Head.

Also, I know we get the calls but only because it is so flagrant...
Allen and Robison get blatantly held every time they blitz.

I also cannot think of a team that has ever had so many holding penalties, offensive and defensive, occuring near the end zone.
Those are giant red zone penalties. Recently the phantom Defensive Holding seems to be haunting us. It is such a brutal one because it is an automatic first down.
There have been 10+ game stretches where teams like the Saints and Packers average 40 or more pass attempts a game and don't get called for holding or offensive pass interference. That just isn't possible.

Does anybody else feel this way? I know almost every team does, but with the Vikings it is valid. Or am I crazy?

[Crax]

I didn't really have a problem with that particular call.

I did see some Rams fans on a rams board whining about Peterson only getting big runs because the Vikings get away with holding though. Fans of nearly every team think they're getting screwed. I truly believe we did get screwed at NO a few years back, but not all the time.

[Demi]

If you were a fan of the Rams you'd be saying the opposite. We got away with just as many, if not more.

[cstelter]

Did any one else think that one of the hits on Rudolph (I think it was him anyway) as he was stepping out of bounds was more or less identical to the one JA was flagged for last week? Defender did not make contact until Rudolph stepped out of bounds. Maybe JA caused a harder hit. It seemd to me if JA had done anything to avoid the hit, the runner may have juked inside and kept running.

I'm probably biased though. I don't really believe we get fewer calls than other teams-- I recall a couple games where things seemed to go unfairly our way. On balance I don't think we're any better/worse off than any other team. But this one play did come to mind on the topic of this thread.