Posted on 12/18/2004 3:42:18 PM PST by airborne
EAST RUTHERFORD, NJ -(AP) Eli Manning's best game as a pro wasn't enough to stop Ben Roethlisberger and the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Roethlisberger threw for a career best 316 yards and threw four straight passes to set up Jerome Bettis' game winning 1 yard run with 4:57 left in the game, leading the Steelers to a 33-30 come from behind win over the New York Giants.
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"The word 'genius' isn't applicable in football. A genius is a guy like Norman Einstein." -- Joe Theisman, [Broadway] NFL football quarterback and sports analyst
"In Louisiana we don't bet on football games ... We bet on whether a politician is going to be indicted or not." -- Mark Duffy
I will agree with any statement you make that rips Kordell. The Dark Years of Kordell 'doing what he could do' were not very fun. And your Colts are looking very impressive this season but the Steelers would still win 24-23 after eating up 45 minutes off the clock.
Tagline change time.
Not ripping Kordell--just saying he knows that TD shouldn't have counted--and that TD doesn't count---the Steelers don't play the Cowboys in the SB.
Yeh! He's as fast as the Negro League player, Cool Papa Bell, who was so fast he could flip the light switch and be in the bed before the room got dark.
So what?? I can do the same thing--(the switch is right beside my bed).
The Washington Post's Boswell on Brown's forward lateral in the Patriot - Steeler playoff game:
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http://sportsforum.ws/showthread.html?t=11949
ROFL!
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Here's what happened: Brown's lateral to Harris went forward, at least two feet, not backward. So it was illegal. Slow-motion freeze frame, from two complementary angles, is as clear as a bell. If the Steelers had challenged the ruling, they would almost certainly have gotten a reversal. One camera was directly behind the play, shot from the end zone. So you can see exactly when the ball leaves Brown's hand and when Harris catches it. The other camera, on the sideline, is at the 50-yard line, exactly where the illegal "lateral" took place. From the end zone angle, you can see that the ball is entirely out of Brown's hands just as his right foot lands a bit shy of the 50. From the sideline angle, you can see that, as his right foot lands, no part of his body, or any part of the ball, has quite reached the 50. So, the lateral has been made before midfield. From both angles, it's clear that when Harris first touches the ball, it is about two feet past midfield. Lateraled before the 50. Caught on the other side. What could be more "indisputable?" You can discuss whether the ball went two feet forward, or perhaps as much as a full yard forward. But you can't say it was legal. And you can't say that, on replay, it was even very close. Calls are routinely reversed on far less crystal-clear camera work. Unfortunately, the Steelers didn't have any challenges left.
I wouldn't bet on Kordell knowing that as he doesn't appear to know much of anything. And I probably would have rather lost to the Colts that year(1995?) than have Jerry Jones payoff Neil O'Donnell to lose the SuperBowl.
I don't even remember that game being controversial. I must have been too busy bitching about Kordell's four turnovers.
Forgiven.
Teams relying mostly on defense and rushing always win late...it is the nature of the strategy (ask Stalin).
Have you seen replays to bear that out? I'd like to see them.
Wishful thinking is all any of us can afford at this time of the year.
Been watching pro football since 1953 when I saw an exhibition game in my hometown won by a team that scored two touchdowns in two minutes. This was at a time when most college and schoolboy games were low-scoring defensive battles. I was hooked.
In all that time, I've never seen a rookie quarterback come into the league and do what this kid can do. He keeps hiw poise under the rush and delivers the ball to his receivers better than most veteran quartebacks in the league. He is a phenomenon--a one of a kind.
By the way, I hate Pittsburg because I root for the Cowboys and Houston.
Thank you for the kind words. Based on your allegiances, I compliment you on your frankness.
I'm amazed that the Giants pulled Warner. HE wasn't great, but the Giants were a sure playoff team. They put in Manning, and now have no hope of making the playoffs.
Whay would they do that? Are playoff seasons now held so cheaply? I think you should start the best QB and try to win.
I didn't see the game, but interference calls, either yea or nay, are ruining the NFL.
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