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		<title>49ers have ‘several paragraphs’ of questionable calls headed to league office</title>
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		<category><![CDATA[Week 13]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Week 13: 49ers at Seahawks As NFL head coaches are wont to do on a weekly basis, 49ers coach Mike Singletary has registered a complaint with the league office regarding some questionable calls in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Seahawks. First, Singletary does acknowledge that important caveat at the end of his remark that we frequently [...]]]></description>
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<p>As NFL head coaches are wont to do on a weekly basis, 49ers coach Mike Singletary has registered a complaint with the league office regarding some questionable calls in Sunday&#8217;s game against the Seahawks. First, Singletary does acknowledge that important caveat at the end of his remark that we frequently mention here: referees don&#8217;t decide games any more than the weather does.</p>
<p>Here are <a href="http://www.49ers.com/news-and-events/article-1/Singletarys-Notebook-Dec-7/0744016e-0c0f-4652-a735-4e533b373565" target="_blank">Singletary&#8217;s comments</a> from his press conference:</p>
<blockquote><p>Every week we send a letter to the league about different calls that are made or not made in a game. Just to say this week, there will be several paragraphs that will be going to the league.</p>
<p><em>[Questioned about specific plays:]</em> There were many.</p>
<p><em>[Questioned about an uncalled 4th-and-goal pass interference:]</em> Let me say this before I go too far down this road, obviously there were bad calls made and I think in every game there are bad calls made. Yesterday, for me, there were just a few more than I had witnessed maybe since I’ve been in the league and I just want to make sure that our players, coaching staff, our fans, everybody involved with the 49ers, everybody that cares about the 49ers, I want them to understand that this is not about the referees. They didn’t fumble the ball. They didn’t throw interceptions. They didn’t make bad plays, we did. So I don’t want to put this on the referees. I certainly feel that some of those calls were questionable, but if we had done what we were supposed to do, we overcome that and we win the football game.</p></blockquote>
<p>The pass interference non-call came early in the first quarter (<a href="http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d814c6c5b/NFL-GameDay-49ers-vs-Seahawks-highlights" target="_blank">video</a>, first highlight). The <a href="http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2009/football/nfl/wires/12/07/2020.ap.fbn.49ers.singletary.1st.ld.writethru.0923/" target="_blank">Associated Press reports </a>that another call in the communique to the league may include a late-game reception by the Seahawks that set up the tie-breaking field goal (<a href="http://www.nfl.com/videos/nfl-game-highlights/09000d5d814c2faf/Butler-sets-up-game-winner" target="_blank">video</a>). Singletary is seen complaining to line judge Ron Phares for, apparently, the lack of an illegal contact or offensive pass interference penalty.<br />
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