Let's address the obvious first: The call at the end of Monday's NFL game between the Seattle Seahawks and the Green Bay Packers was a joke. The replacement referees missed a clear pass interference call on Seattle receiver Golden Tate, who shoved aside a Packers defender as if he were pushing the groom into the pool at a bachelor party. And there's no way Tate reached "simultaneous possession" with Green Bay safety M.D. Jennings—unless Tate plays with a bionic lobster claw he bought in the Sky Mall catalog.

It was bad. And...