NFL fans crushed the refs for a horrible roughing-the-passer call that robbed the Saints of an end zone INT

This was maybe the worst roughing-the-passer call of the year.

NFL refs have been really horrible at two things this year – calling taunting penalties and calling awful roughing-the-passer penalties.

On Sunday we might have seen the worst roughing-the passer call of the year when the refs took away an interception in the end zone by the Saints in Tennessee.

Saints linebacker Kaden Ellis got a piece of Titans QB Ryan Tannehill as he got rid of the ball but he didn’t come close to hitting him in the head. There’s no way this should have taken such a big play away from the Saints. Making things worse, the Titans scored a go-ahead TD a few players later .

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Yup, that was ridiculous.

CBS’ rules official Gene Steratore thought that shouldn’t have been called:

Twitter hated it: