The "Goose" was cooked.
Last Monday night, Tony Siragusa tried to watch the Broncos-Falcons game until an excruciating first half of seeing replacement-ref follies became too much to stomach.
"I had to turn the game off. It was really, really bad. I mean, a two-hour first half is just ridiculous," Siragusa said Sunday.
What do you know, but minutes after the comment, Siragusa tried to shake hands with the very same ref who worked Monday's calamity in Atlanta. Ken Roan was about to whistle the start of Sunday's Vikings game when he stared at Siragusa's outreached arm.
"I can't," Roan said from inside the end zone.
"What?" a miffed Siragusa asked. Roan repeated: "I'm not allowed to shake your hand."
"Goose" grinned, turned around and walked back to his end zone sanctuary.
Siragusa is the colorful, larger-than-life fixture on Fox's No. 2 football crew, which includes veteran play-by-play man Kenny Albert and the two-headed color team of "Moose" (three-time Super Bowl champ Daryl Johnston) and "Goose."