2theadvocate.com - 10/7/2008
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NEW ORLEANS Referee Ed Hochuli and his officiating crew were in the limelight again during the New Orleans Saints-Minnesota Vikings game on Monday night in the Superdome. Hochuli and his crew made national headlines in the second week of the season when they called an obvious fumble by Denver ...
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HOCHULI’S CREW SCREWS UP A COUPLE MORE CALLS
ProFootballTalk.com —
Though we’re not sure that it matters because the Saints seemed determined to blow the Monday night game against the Vikings, referee Ed Hochuli and crew were caught in the middle of two more controversial calls . Both of them, in our view, were wrong. As to the first one, the officials made a clear error. In the second quarter, Vikings linebacker Chad Greenway did the “grabbed and pulled and hurt my neck in 1988″ thing with Reggie Bush’s facemask, which should have drawn an immediate penalty. But no flags flew and Bush lost the ball was he was trying not to lose his head. ...
Week 5 Denouement
JoeSportsFan.com —
... Monday night Hochuli and his crew failed to penalize Chad Greenway for an obvious facemask on Reggie Bush that led to Bush fumbling the ball away. By “instant replay rules”, the facemask play wasn’t reviewable. Again I ask, what is the point of instant replay? ...
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The Gun Show F’s Up Again —
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It seems NFL referee Ed “Gun Show” Hochuli cannot avoid controversy this season.
In the second quarter of the Minnesota Vikings ‘ 30-27 victory over the New Orleans Saints on Monday night, the referees missed a call which resulted in a fumble.
Minnesota linebacker ...
Perhaps He's in the Wrong Business —
First And 10 Inches
Though the season is only five weeks old, we now have three weeks that have seen all-biceps referee Ed Hochuli blow a call. If a game-deciding call against the San Diego Chargers during week 2 wasn't enough, he later called a helmet-to-helmet penalty on Carolina's Julius Peppers that appeared to ...
