Saints followers aren’t going quietly.
New Orleans Saints large receiver Michael Thomas took to social media yesterday asking the league to implement “Rule 17, Part 2, Article three,” which really permits the NFL commissioner to reverse an end result a sport, or reschedule it, because of this “unfair acts.”
Based on a report from WDSU in Louisiana, New Orleans space lawyer Frank J. D’Amico Jr. has now filed a civil go well with on behalf Saints season-ticket holders, requesting that the league discover an analogous rule within the NFL Rulebook, which he says “might, in the proper circumstances, permit the commissioner to take excessive motion within the face a grossly unfair consequence.”
NFL Rule 17, Part 2, Article 1 states:
“The commissioner has the only authority to research and take acceptable disciplinary and/or corrective measures if any membership actions, non-participant interference, or calamity happens in an NFL sport which the commissioner deems so extraordinary unfair or exterior the accepted techniques encountered in pressional soccer that such motion has a serious impact on the consequence the sport.”
D’Amico’s purpose is to have a choose strain commissioner Goodell and the league into forcing the Rams again to New Orleans to play the ultimate minutes once more.
The NFL nonetheless has not publicly commented on the controversial last minutes the NFC title sport, through which Rams defensive again Nickell Robey-Coleman delivered a helmet-to-helmet hit on Saints receiver Tommylee Lewis properly earlier than the ball had reached him.