That would be Andrea Kremer interviewing TO, Tony Romo and Jason Witten. After the sexual tension drama in the Dallas locker room over the past week, Kremer corners the three suspects in the love triangle for a post-game chat to talk abut what was on everyone’s mind.

(UPDATE: This video was deleted from YouTube. What, did Romo have a hair out of place? TO not liking his profile? Jason Whitten wanted to stand in the middle? Guys, relax. Everyone looks great after a win.)

The Girls laugh at them trying to pass it off as a big joke. It is what it is - and what it is is a crazy-jealous wide receiver wanting the Witten’s tight end to get less of Romo’s passes.

Not now that that’s settled, onto the indisputably bad play-calling by Walt Coleman and his officiating crew in the Steelers-Ravens game in Baltimore.

Ok, we have all been burned by the inability of a call to be overturned when there is a lack of CONCLUSIVE evidence contrary. The call on the field prevails. That’s life, and we all know life can be unfair.

But when a TD is ruled ‘no touchdown’ on the field because the ball has not crossed the plane of the end zone, and it is then overruled without the friendly comfort of indisputable evidence - well, that’s just confusing.

Wait, even more confusing is when the ref returns to the field and says that the play is deemed a touchdown - because “the receiver had two feet down in the end zone with possession of the ball”. Good for Santonio Holmes, but what about the ball - doesn’t that have to enter the end zone as well? Isn’t that what we were freakin’ talking about? The ref called it as if the receiver was catching it on the side or in the back end of the end zone.

Wait, even more confusing than THAT is the fact that these refs are part-timers. During the week, they go to, well, their other jobs. And that other job could just as well be a dealer at a black jack table in Vegas. We’ve said it a million times so why not say it again; it’s ridiculous that the refs in the NFL - the most successful professional sports league with bailout-sized numbers wagered on its games every weekend - would be part time. The NHL refs are not part time. The NHL! Hockey! Crazy, eh? Or is it by design?

Or just awkward.

You decide.

Give big props to Roethlisberger for putting together a 92-yard drive (more than the total yardage allowed by Baltimore in the rest of the game) and getting it down to the red zone when it counted most. Would he have scored had the play been spotted at 4th-and-inches? Probably.

Just hate to see a part-time ref determine the outcome of a game.

Makin’ us think of Detroit all over again…

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