Ex-official calls out bad call

NEAR the end of last Sunday’s Browns-Raiders, Dean Blandino, exNFL VP of officiating now with Fox, essentially said that a totally incorrect replay reversal that denied Cleveland a game-ending first-down could turn the Browns from winners to losers.

And that’s what happened. But remember: It’s all about getting it right!

Dave Anderson, longtime Times sportswriter who died Thursday at 89, was a relentless gentleman who treated the newbies in his midst with respect and concern. I knew him for what I wish I could be and what made him a successful writer: He was a great listener. The Ryder Cup, in which Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson went a combined 0-6, sure took whatever artificial sizzle there might have been for that Tiger vs. Phil pay-per-view pig roast, didn’t it?

If there’s a constant in the Todd Bowles era, it’s that the Jets’ offense often seems like 11 strangers playing as one for the first time.

Ever got the feeling that if Ron Darling really sounded off on what has happened to The Game, they’d have to call security?

Enslaved by TV money, Division I college football has become the NFL in that losing teams are assigned the most logical and comfortable fall and winter start times, early Saturday afternoons.

Erik Kratz, 38-yearold transient catcher seen singling for the Brewers on Friday, this season was seen and heard as a Yankees Triple-A Scranton/WilkesBarre farmhand in an episode of YES’ superb series, “Homegrown.”

WFAN’s Bart Scott on Friday: “Even a broken clock is right once a day.”