[Neil K Walk]

FWIW I have no dog in the fight. I'd rather watch football than 60 Minutes any Sunday night.

The chips fall where they fall. Sir Tom will have another ring. Good for Boston. New Orleans is going to have to wait until Fat Tuesday to start collecting tourism revenue.

This wasn't a case of the ball surviving the ground to break the plane at the goal line. Anybody remember that one? The rule got changed the subsequent year.

Yes, it was a bad non-call. It was actually TWO egregious non-calls - both defensive pass interference (for the defender not even turning to LOOK at the incoming ball) AND helmet to helmet. Even Al Riverond admitted so much to Andy Reid - but it's just not realistic to nullify the end results and essentially sue for a rubber game. The opportunity for revenge comes in the next meeting.

Similarly, sudden death OT in a playoff game is entirely appropriate - albeit heartbreaking. When NE won the toss they won the game as far as I'm concerned. At least it didn't come down to a shootout between the kickers.

As for the officiating, IMO it's a matter of bad perspective of those who make the calls. In this age of 360 slow mo replay I find it ridiculous to have somebody on the field with questionable eyesight staring into a hooded monitor to parse a play frame by blurry frame in order to overturn a call he was originally complicit on? They need to do what the NHL does; have somebody with access to eyes in the sky to interpret things from a different perspective. The technology is already in place thanks to the network partners.

Also, if they can have door chimes in a dollar store doorway and laser tag in malls across the country why can't they have some kind of electronic sensor on the Big Stage that can interpret when a ball makes breaks the plane for a TD or first down before a player's knees or elbows come in contact with the ground? It's like umpires in baseball being "interpretive" of the strike zone.

Personally, I think Brady is either an android or Superman. They cut to him sitting on the bench on the sidelines when KC took the lead just after the 2 minute warning and he was just sitting there staring straight ahead. It was eerie seeing that blank look in his eyes. He looked like Data from Star Trek downloading data from a mainframe and formulating a course of action. To see him joking and laughing during the post game was such a 180 it was equally jarring.

You have to hand it to the guy, though. When he's down he's NEVER out, even when everyone else on the team is tripping over their own two feet. I've seen him just brush off setbacks in-game and rally his troops in situations that would have caused any other team to accept defeat at its own hands.