{"id":163641,"date":"2019-01-31T15:36:07","date_gmt":"2019-01-31T21:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=163641"},"modified":"2019-01-31T16:21:18","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T22:21:18","slug":"judge-denies-do-over-nfc-championship-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/?p=163641","title":{"rendered":"Judge denies &#8220;Do-over,&#8221; NFC Championship game"},"content":{"rendered":"<article id=\"story_content\" class=\"ng-binding\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-163642\" src=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RamsSaints2019-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RamsSaints2019-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RamsSaints2019-264x175.jpg 264w, https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/RamsSaints2019.jpg 618w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>New Orleans \u2014 A quest by two New Orleans Saints ticketholders to force a full or partial do-over of this year&#8217;s NFC championship game because of a blown &#8220;no-call&#8221; by game officials was rejected Thursday by a federal judge.Officials failed to call interference or roughness penalties when a Rams player leveled a Saints receiver with a helmet-to-helmet hit at a crucial point in the final minutes of regulation time. The Rams won the Jan. 20 game in overtime and are set to play the New England Patriots in Sunday&#8217;s Super Bowl in Atlanta.Fan reaction in New Orleans has included disbelief, anger and resignation, expressed in newspaper headlines, billboards (&#8220;They reffed up&#8221; said one), promises by some restaurants and bars that they won&#8217;t show the Super Bowl broadcast on Sunday, and posters of blind referees.And at least two lawsuits. One is a class-action lawsuit on behalf of ticketholders, still pending in state court as of Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The other was filed by season ticketholders Tommy Badeaux and Candis Lambert. Filed two days after the game, it says the NFL should be forced to implement a rule allowing Commissioner Roger Goodell to investigate &#8220;extraordinarily unfair acts&#8221; that affect the game. Remedies under that rule include rescheduling the game in full, or from the point at which the unfair act occurred.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Susie Morgan rejected arguments that Badeaux and Lambert were entitled to an order, known as a &#8220;writ of mandamus,&#8221; forcing the NFL or Goodell to take action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;None of the actions Plaintiffs might seek to compel Commissioner Goodell to do are the kinds of actions a writ of mandamus may address,&#8221; Morgan said in a 17-page ruling in which she detailed the extraordinary circumstances in which Louisiana law allows a writ of mandamus to be issued.<\/p>\n<p>In the same ruling, she also rejected arguments that the case should be in state court in New Orleans, where it was originally filed.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Orleans \u2014 A quest by two New Orleans Saints ticketholders to force a full or partial do-over of this year&#8217;s NFC championship game because of a blown &#8220;no-call&#8221; by game officials was rejected Thursday by a federal judge.Officials failed to call interference or roughness penalties when a Rams player [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-163641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=163641"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":163655,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163641\/revisions\/163655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=163641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=163641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/csinewsnow.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=163641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}