At game speed and in the context of the rules, offensive pass interference should have been called before that ball came down, as NFL officials later admitted (you just can't review calls, or rather non-calls, like that).

I figured officials were trying to make up for calling pass interference against Seattle during Green Bay's only touchdown drive, which call also sucked horribly and which enabled Green Bay to continue its drive which should have ended right then and there.

I've never seen pass interference called on a hail Mary when a group is going for the ball.

Hey, what do I know? Commentators who said things like "Seattle receiver Golden Tate literally shoved down a Green Bay defensive back in one of the most blatant offensive pass interference penalties the world has ever seen" must not understand things as you do. NFL officials, who said in their ruling upholding Seattle's win,

"While the ball is in the air, Tate can be seen shoving Green Bay cornerback Sam Shields to the ground. This should have been a penalty for offensive pass interference, which would have ended the game. It was not called and is not reviewable in instant replay."

Talk doesn't change the fact they rarely call pass interference on hail Mary's when everyone is jumping up in a bunch like that. Maybe you should consider calming down a bit.

It's ironic to me that this is the call that gets it done. You simply don't call offensive pass interference on a final play 50 yard hail mary. No one does that. Other than that it was a close call. The issue was the same issue they had along -- it took them 15 minutes. But it happened on the final (and deciding) play of the last (and nationally televised) game of the week. So this is the mistake that finally gets it done. No wonder they were fired by the lingerie football league...

I HAD HAD SEX WITH HUNTER S THOMPSON. HE CAME IN MY MOUTH AND I SWALLOWED IT. I SHOULD HAVE HAD HIS BABY. WE WOULD BE BALLIN' LIKE KOBE'S SON!!

Were the refs really that bad, that the outrage makes sense from a "straw that broke the camel's back" type of perspective?  I haven't been watching the NFL yet this year.

At some point, you do have to call pass interference on a final 50 yard hail mary or it just becomes open season to start decking people.  This strikes me as blatant enough that it probably should have been called just to clean up the hail mary plays a bit, but as you say, it's a call they practically never make, so I can't really understand the outrage about not making it.  You might as well be outraged about the NBA not calling traveling on the deciding play.

The call itself was actually pretty close.  Yeah, it ought to have been an interception under NFL rules (which are the better set), but I'm pretty sure that's a touchdown under college rules.  If you run games with all officials being wannae college refs, it's hardly a surprising call to see them make.  If the outrage was just about that call, it doesn't make a lot of sense to me.

What's different about college rules that would have made that more decidedly a touchdown?

I don't think they address the issue of losing one hand specifically.  They both caught it simultaneously with both hands.  The receiver maintained one hand on the ball the entire time, which should be good enough for possession in college.  The defender had two hands on it the entire time, which is specifically addressed in NFL rules as taking possession if the receiver doesn't have both hands on the ball.

The white hat never came down to sort things out and try to get the call right, he went straight to the replay viewer.

he tanked it on purpose

I HAD HAD SEX WITH HUNTER S THOMPSON. HE CAME IN MY MOUTH AND I SWALLOWED IT. I SHOULD HAVE HAD HIS BABY. WE WOULD BE BALLIN' LIKE KOBE'S SON!!