So how the hell is Triplette reffing a playoff game?
Even Mike Pereira was dumbfounded:
“I am surprised, and I say that especially in Cincinnati, because if you look at Jeff Triplette, you go back to Week 13 — his crew was the crew that lost track of the down in the New York Giants-Washington game,” Pereira recalled. “And then you go to this play [the Green-Ellis play] with Cincinnati — I mean, this was a play that was ruled short and down short of the goal line. They reversed it to a touchdown, and did not look at the contact that occurred at the five-yard line. Yet, Triplette still has Cincinnati in the wild-card [round]? And he has the same replay official that’s going to accompany him to this game? That, to me, doesn’t make sense, and I wouldn’t have assigned it that way.”
http://nfl.si.com/2014/01/04/nfl-assigns-jeff-triplette-san-diego-cincinnati/?eref=sihp