[workerbee]

Look, I know so little about football it isn't even funny (ask my husband!) But even I was floored at the STUPIDITY I saw last night. "They threw it?!?! One foot from a TD, on the first down, with a timeout, and they threw it?"

And I just know I was the first person to say "that will go down as the WORST call in NFL history". ;-)

[duffee]

Some people can’t handle prosperity.

[Impy]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_at_the_Meadowlands

That one is pretty bad too, wasn’t the Superbowl though.

[Mears]

“. “They threw it?!?! One foot from a TD, on the first down, with a timeout, and they threw it?””

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Your post had me laughing so much I have tears in my eyes.

I saw the play but your description is priceless.

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[TaMoDee]

Mrs. TaMoDee said the same thing and knows the same about football as you. (She threw in the F-Bomb a couple of times in the same rant as in Whiskey Tango Foxtrot.)

[ought-six]

Well, it wasn’t first down, it was second down.

I am no Pete Carroll fan (in fact, I despise him, and have ever since he was at USC). But when one considers the odds (and an analyst that was cited on another thread pointed this out), they actually favored (though only so very slightly) a pass play in this situation.

I was like a lot of people when I first saw that play: WTF? You didn’t RUN???

But looking at it later, after considering all possibilities, I cannot fault Carroll for the call. Of course, I’ve had almost a full day to consider the options, but Carroll (or the OC, if he in fact called the play), had only a few seconds to make the decision.

[TexasGator]

“One foot from a TD”

The hash marks are one yard, not one foot.

[TexasGator]

“that will go down as the WORST call in NFL history”

Not to mention that neither the QB or WR executed at a superbowl level on the play.

AND one undrafted DB DID perform at a superbowl level on the play.