NFL needs to address last night's referee blunder

In case you missed it, last night's prime time matchup between the New England Patriots and Carolina Panthers ended on a blown call by the officiating crew. Trailing by four points with six seconds left in the game, Tom Brady threw pass to the end zone intended for his tight end Rob Gronkowski but Gronk was being bear-hugged by Panthers linebacker Luke Kuechly. The line judge in the back of the end zone threw a flag for the obvious penalty on Kuechly, but when the officiating crew gathered the referee picked up the flag and deemed that there was no penalty. I highly recommend you watch the play for yourself because words can only do so much. The referees blew it. Plain and simple. And on top of that, they didn't even give Bill Belichick an explanation for why they picked up the flag. It was obvious pass interference by Kuechly because he was impeding Gronkowski from coming back to a very catchable ball. Had they called it pass interference New England would have had the ball on one yard line and probably would have won the game. Instead, the referees were intimidated by the home crowd and didn't want to give the visiting team a chance to win the game. That head official should be disciplined for what he did (or didn't do, rather) and commissioner Roger Goodell should acknowledge that the officiating crew dropped the ball. It's like the Fail Mary all over again. And what's most unfortunate is that that was a really great game and all there is to talk about is that egregious no-call.