If you watched the Green Bay Packers beat the Minnesota Vikings on Saturday, then you probably recall when official Sarah Thomas had to leave the game after bashing the back of her head on the Lambeau Field turf.
What I don’t get — and it’s comical to look at now — is why she didn’t get the hell out of the way. Thomas was run over by Vikings tight end Kyle Rudolph, who had safety Morgan Burnett on his back. Thomas is looking right at them as they’re coming toward her and she basically turns as if she were trying to draw a charge in basketball, rather than trying to jump out of the way.
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Way to take that charge! First personal, No. 82.
Anyway, they looked at her for a concussion and she came back to the game shortly thereafter. So apparently she was alright.
Like the game, you watch this video, and all you can do is wonder, what the fuck was she thinking. She actually moved into the player and sort of set her feet.
You keep that up hunny, and as Jerry Glanville once said…the NFL stands for…Not For Long.
WOW
Buck and Aikman kept saying she hit her head, she hit her head. Maybe, but she wasn’t complaining about her head, she was complaining about her wrist. When she came back out on the field she was wearing a black splint of some sort on her wrist and over her thumb. I didn’t get to see the 2nd half until I got home from work but I thought I read her lips, saying she thought she broke her wrist, something like that. I played it back on TiVo a couple times to be sure, but she definitely wasn’t worried about her head.
Bonham, good article. I’m glad you wrote it instead of that two-headed Ettin of poor reporting Monty/Mordecai. No doubt he would have indicated Rudolph clobbered her on purpose as part of a ISIS plot since the Vikings are merely an ISIS cell and then would have whined that a Packer doing that would have been banned from football for life.
Silly, the vikings aren’t an Isis cell.
They’re simply another bad NFL team losing it’s way into the record books.
Appeared as if she was in coverage, they caught the ball in front of her. I will make this short and sweet….She’s an idiot.
She thought she was setting a pick….lol
A deer caught in the headlights. Most of us have seen it.
I’m sure she was hired due to being the most qualified candidate….
Give her a break. She is just trying to do a job. I think the same officiating crew worked the Packers / Titans game and I seem to recall that she did an OK job in both games. She didn’t allow the big guys to push her around in the other game when there was some pushing and shoving after some plays were done. So what if she missed an opportunity to “duck”. She took the hit, got up, and came back to finish the game. Don’t know how much game time she lost, but it wasn’t too much.
She had Blonde moment, HA!
I’m personally going to meet up with her for a few hours of intense counseling and instruction to ensure nothing like this ever happens again.