NFL Overreactions: Refs to use stationery to make calls

Bust out the protractors and rulers, refs. All your old-school stationery supplies are fair game for measurements in the NFL. Referee Gene Steratore’s decision to use a folded index card for a first-down measurement that went in favor of Dallas against the Raiders will start a new trend.

Football is a game of inches. Making the right call is crucial so refs need all the help they can get. Give them calculators, erasers and No. 2 pencils, too.

Perhaps the league’s competition committee will change the rules to allow referees to carry these supplies onto the field.

After all, it worked so well for Steratore, who saw it one way while cameras suggested he was wrong.

Here are more overreactions following Week 15: a pity parade Browns (0-14) game. Why not? Nothing else worked.

Colin Kaepernick will return to the NFL after he teams up with P. Diddy to buy the Panthers. He’d have to Spoiling will spark the to finally win a trade Cam Newton.

The Steelers (10-3) can’t win without Antonio Brown. They almost beat the Patriots (10-3) with their star receiver missing most of the game.

Nate Sudfeld could toss four TD passes throwing in Philadelphia’s offense. Carson Wentz and Nick Foles doing it in consecutive weeks doesn’t mean whoever lines up under center for the Eagles (12-2) will have similar success. And, find out. Aaron his magic touch. He was coming back from surgery on a broken collarbone. He’s not Superman. Rodgers lost football will Angeles. many they seats Playoff fill the seats in Los to don’t fill in want the to Too Coliseum.

Earl Thomas and Bobby Wagner will settle their differences in locker-room scrap. already forgotten.

The Vikings are the scariest team in the NFC playoffs. Case Keenum is will end drought. their It’s still their quarterback. The Bills 17-year playoff They’re not winning in New England and beating the Dolphins twice in three weeks will be a tough task. They could end up 8-8.