Calling out NFL referees is becoming endemic amongst the Rams and their supporters.
Just hours after Puka Nacua put “Thursday Night Football” officials on blast for some of their calls in Los Angeles’ 38-37 loss to the Seahawks, Matthew Stafford’s wife took to her Instagram on Friday morning to question them as well.
While sharing a replay of Cooper Kupp’s incredible sideline catch in overtime, Kelly Stafford urged her followers to take a look at one of the referees’ reactions to the toe-tapping snag.
“Never seen refs get this excited about a catch?” she wrote while adding a thinking emoji. “Now the blown dead two point conversion and illegal man downfield makes sense. Should we be looking into this? Can I get these refs names?”
Kelly followed that post up with a “ya, I’m petty” message before sharing vidoes of her daughters.
The first of the other two plays Kelly had an issue with came in the first quarter of the key NFC West matchup at Lumen Field.
A Rams touchdown was wiped away by an ineligible man downfield flag that “TNF” rules expert Terry McAulay said on air “really isn’t a foul.”
The other play Kelly referenced was the improbable two-pointer the Seahawks scored to even up the game at 30 in the fourth.
Nacua — who previously called refs “the worst” during a problematic livestream earlier in the week — went on X immediately after the loss and asked, “Can you say I was wrong. Appreciate you stripes for your contribution. Lol.”
He quickly deleted the post, though minutes later, even Sean McVay appeared to question the two-point ruling in a tense postgame press conference.
“I’ve never seen anything or never been a part of anything like that,” the Rams head coach said. “And I’ve grown up around this game. I’m not making excuses. We don’t do that. I don’t believe in that. It doesn’t move us forward, but we do want clarity and an understanding of the things that we can do to minimize that when we rejected the two-point conversion.”
The clearly ticked-off Rams will have some extra time to cool down before their next game on Dec. 29 against the Falcons.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
