After Monday Night Fiasco, a Call for Goodell to Apologize

Summary of 2 articles · Updated Sep 25, 2012

To be sure, the conga line of complaining about the replacement referee fiasco had started before Monday night’s N.F.L. This is Goodell’s referee lockout, and he has to fix it, with Bill Reiter leading that cry on Foxsports.com, who calls it the latest ru… (more)nning rebuke of Goodell’s leadership. The line was headed right to the gilded and now probably fortified door of Commissioner Roger Goodell, whose baronial arrogance makes him so easy to blame for just about anything. First, the details of the play: After Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson sailed a pass into the end zone, Seahawks receiver Golden Tate used both hands to shove the Packers’ Sam Shields out of the way clearly a penalty, but it was not called. The Packers’ M.D.