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Aaron Rodgers Didn’t Protest Coin Flip Too Much On the Field

Monty McMahon by Monty McMahon
January 21, 2016
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Packers-Cardinals coin flip

There’s been a lot of talk about coin flips this week because of the botched one at the beginning of overtime in the Green Bay Packers’ loss to the Arizona Cardinals.

Referee Clete Blakeman, who’s now been tapped to officiate the Super Bowl, didn’t actually flip the coin the first time. He just threw it in the air and it fell to the ground without turning over. The Packers, who were on the losing side of that first toss, complained pretty quickly and pretty loudly about it.

Blakeman picked the coin up and actually flipped it the second time and the Packers lost that toss too.

After the game, Packers’ quarterback Aaron Rodgers — who made the heads/tails call — complained about the second flip. He said he wanted a chance to change his original call, which was tails, for the second toss.

I found that pretty interesting when I went back and watched the replay because Rodgers pretty much just seems to walk away after the second toss. He doesn’t appear to be demonstrative or to really say anything for that matter.

Take a look.

Here were Rodgers’ post-game comments on the matter.

“He was showing heads, so I called tails, and it didn’t flip. It just tossed up in the air and did not turn over at all. It landed in the ground. So we obviously thought that was not right. He picked the coin up and flipped it to tails, and then he flipped it without giving me a chance to make a recall there. It was confusing. I think he was trying to avoid the embarrassment of what just happened. He flipped it quickly.”

Sour grapes?

Probably to some extent.

Rodgers seems to be suggesting he has some sort of system there for shifting the 50/50 odds of a coin flip to his favor. That it all depends on what side of the coin is originally facing up, so he wanted to change his call.

Either way, if he believes that, he obviously didn’t stage a protest on the field.

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Comments 4

  1. Avatar for NachoDan NachoDan says:
    8 years ago

    They should switch to dice. Each team gets a roll high number wins.

  2. Avatar for David David says:
    8 years ago

    Yeah and who brings the dice… the home team?
    And what if the home team is the Patriots?
    Belichick will have them rolling ‘boxcars’ every time.

  3. Avatar for Jschizl Jschizl says:
    8 years ago

    I think we should do xfl style throw a ball in the air and have two guys fight for the recovery aka Vince McMahon failed football leage

  4. Avatar for Killer Killer says:
    8 years ago

    What we have all missed here until now (including me) is that Aaron Rodgers, totally besides being a creepy whiner, is a F**KING LIAR!

    Compare the video to Rodgers’ statement. He says that the ref “…was showing heads, so I called tails…”. Completely false. A lie. When Rodgers calls tails the coin is in the refs hand which is in a fist down by his side. Literally, no one could see what the ref was “showing” because he was not showing anything at all!

    Apparently, Rodgers’ actual system is to lie and whine when he loses fairly and to make it seem as if someone else did something wrong and, if not for their wrong, that he would have won.

    What a psycho!

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