And if getting kicked out of the playoffs wasn’t bad enough for the Panthers, who felt that questionable officiating kept them from overcoming a 31-26 deficit in the closing minutes, The (New Orleans) Times-Picayune newspaper decided to pour a ton of salt into the wound with its front-page headline treatment.

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