The NFL's Choice

An epic NFC championship game by the Vikings and Saints that went into OT, at which point the league and the refs decided that they wanted New Orleans in the super bowl after all. How else to explain several of the suddenly superstrict officiating - the pass interference call in which the ball was clearly uncatchable, the defensive holding call that was ticky tack (and so bad that the refs then made a make up no call on the subsequent TE screen in which the Vikings defender essentially tackled the receiver, and the absurd no booth review of the Saints' fourth down conversion until the Vikings called timeout and which probably should have spotted the ball back a half yard. Note, i'm not saying it still wouldn't have been a first down, but it was a bad spot that the review inexplicably didn't overturn.