Denver Broncos Snowboarding by super fan Trailer Tom pinpinfilms/ Ahhhhh Kay so friggin uhhh, Bronco Fan Trailer Tom hits the slopes and the trailer park with his snowboard and Denver Broncos gear to celebrate the best team in the NFL. Loveland pass powder slash. and what about this Fun fact: Peyton Manning is 0-6 with this guy (Bill Vinovich) as referee. NFL referee Bill Vinovich, the Broncos, and facemask penalties... By now youve probably seen the stat. The Denver Broncos, with Peyton Manning, are 0-4 when Bill Vinovich is referee. In fact, Peyton Manning is 0-6 in his career with Vinovich, since Vinovich was promoted to referee in 2004. I dont care who you are - Broncos fan, Manning fan, Colts fan, or otherwise - that has to be an alarming stat. That has to make you wonder. Because Peyton Manning wins a lot of games. Almost all of his games. For him to be winless with one specific referee heading the third team on the field is curious to say the least. Lets be curious together, shall we? Before we begin, a disclaimer. I know the Broncos didnt play well enough to win against the Bengals. I know the refs didnt throw four interceptions Monday night (although you could argue they threw one). I know Peyton Manning wasnt clutch, and I know the defense struggled, and I know all of these things contributed far more to the loss than Vinovich and crew. FOR MANNING TO BE WINLESS WITH ONE SPECIFIC REFEREE IS CURIOUS TO SAY THE LEAST Weve spent a lot of time dissecting the game from the relevant football player/coach angles across MHR over the past few days. Please, take a look. Weve broken all of that stuff down. This post intends to talk about the officiating. If youre not here to talk about that or read about that, youre welcome to find one of the dozen articles on the football game that suits your interest. Respectfully, Im tired of hearing these knee-jerk reactions and will likely respond with a simple, Spare me your clichés to most such responses in the comments. Youve been disclaimered. Ravens, Chargers and Seahawks, oh my First, a history lesson. Bill Vinovich has been referee for four Broncos games since 2012, all resulting in Broncos losses. All were one-score games late in the fourth quarter. Two of them went into overtime. The closeness, to me, implies that neither team dominated the other in these respective games, and bad reffing could have made a difference. So was there bad reffing? Broncos 35, Ravens 38 (2OT) - 2012 AFC Divisional Playoff Game Was there bad reffing? Yes. A writer for the Huffington Post - ostensibly a Broncos fan - did a thorough job breaking down all the ways Vinovich and crew basically cost the Broncos their home playoff game in 2012. He breaks down the misuse of the Tuck Rule that resulted in a Manning turnover, a crucial Ravens completion that should have been ruled incomplete, the lack of a defensive pass interference penalty that should have been called, and more. He spends over 2,100 words breaking down how bad Vinovich and crew were, and if youve come this far down the rabbit hole with me, you might as well go down a little further and look at his arguments. They are compelling (thanks to McGeorge in the comments). Some Broncos fans, to this day, blame Bill Vinovich for that loss in January 2013. His is a name they havent forgotten. The rest of us are only now jumping on that bandwagon. Broncos 20, Chargers 27 - 2013 Week 15 Was there bad reffing? I cant find any evidence or abnormally high complaints about bad reffing from Broncos fans about this game. Broncos 20, Seahawks 26 (OT) - 2014 Week 3 AGAINST MANNINGS TEAM, WITH VINOVICH, EVERYTHINGS A SEEMING POINT OF EMPHASIS. FOR HIS OPPONENTS, LET EM PLAY. Was there bad reffing? Yes. I spent quite a bit of time breaking down a number of plays in this game from the NFL rulebook angle, regarding Earl Thomas, Wes Welker and more. I emailed the NFL office with questions. I broke down GIFs. Others chimed in. I still maintain the refs got a lot of stuff wrong and played a hand in costing the Broncos the game. I hadnt made the Bill Vinovich connection at the time of these inquiries. To me, it was just another anonymous NFL referees crew. The officiating was simply bad enough, in my judgment, to raise my eyebrows and do further digging. Now that Im aware of the Vinovich-Manning record, my eyebrows are raised higher. Broncos 28, Bengals 37 - 2014 Week 16 Was there bad reffing? Yes. Im breaking it down thoroughly below, starting with a call against Demaryius Thomas at a critical time that cost them 49 yards. TT Trailer Tom trailertom ift.tt/1gQMQyN ift.tt/1gQMS9E _______ FOLLOW LIPSapp Classic Radio _______ FB: r-js/1vz7Pcz / TW: r-js/1kHd2Qt / Listen to LIPSapp Classic Radio r-js/1dOIQ18 #classicrock #rollingstones #ledzeppelin #santana #eagles #zztop #thewho #beatles #elvis #jimihendrix #dylan #acdc #michaeljackson #pinkfloyd #madonna #u2
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