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Three New Orleans Saints are listed as OUT for Sunday's game in Green Bay versus the Packers. New Orleans will be thin at the linebacker position, as both...

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Bye weeks begin as the NFL enters its fourth week of the 2012 season. Here's a preview of all of this week's action:

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The best professional golfers from the US and Europe are in Chicago to duel for the Ryder Cup, while Major League Baseball winds down its regular season. Here's what to watch this weekend:

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The New Orleans Saints travel to Green Bay, Wisconsin on Sunday, to take on the Green Bay Packers.

Will the Saints defeat the Packers?

Will The Saints Defeat The Packer?

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell today said the NFL was apologetic the agreement with the NFL referees association took so long, but continued to spin the job done by the replacement officials.

While apologizing, Goodell continued to deny using replacement officials increased the chances of

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As you may have heard, hobos and miscreants are in charge of refereeing NFL games now! Or, rather, the NFL has decided to use high school referees as replacements while it negotiates with the actual referees' union, which has led to the occasional minor controversy. And while Monday's night's disastrous ending to the Packers-Seahawks game is probably the pinnacle (or nadir) of this sad saga, there were already plenty of questionable, puzzling and downright infuriating officiating decisions leading up to it.

Let's have a look, shall we?

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Three members of the New Orleans Saints missed Wednesday's practice due to injury. All three play on the defensive side of the football. Two of the three are linebackers. Both play on the weakside.

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By now, even non-football fans have heard about the officiating debacle in last night's showdown between the Green Bay Packers and Seattle Seahawks (just check your Facebook feed). Facing a 12-7 deficit with just seconds left to play, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson rolled out of the pocket and threw a desperation heave into the end zone, resulting in a game-clinching interception for the Packers.

Except it wasn't. Instead, the NFL's much-maligned replacement officials inexplicably ruled the play a touchdown for the Seahawks, ignoring an obvious offensive pass-interference penalty and cementing the phrase "simultaneous catch" into the lexicon of poor sports officiating.

This screw-up will, hopefully, lead to the return of the real refs—but let's not forget that they too have made their share of awful calls over the years. Here's a look at some of the NFL's most controversial officiating decisions:

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The NFL defends the indefensible

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This is the controversial ending of Monday night's NFL game between the Green Bay Packers and the Seattle Seahawks.

Seahawks' receiver Golden Tate pushes a Packers' defender out of the way, and wrestles the ball away to give the Seahawks a 14-12 win on the last play of the game.

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