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Should the Bengals-Browns game have ended in a tie?
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| 10/09/2009
| Chris Chase
Posted on 10/09/2009 8:37:39 PM PDT by Jersey Republican Biker Chick
On Sunday, the field goal pictured above gave the Cincinnati Bengals a last-second overtime victory over the Cleveland Browns. It appeared pretty routine at the time. Shayne Graham booted it through the uprights, the officials positioned under the goalpost raised their hands to signal the kick was good, the Bengals celebrated, the Browns sulked and Rich Gannon was disappointed there was no kickoff afterward.
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Link to the video in the article, I watched it....HE MISSED IT!!!
To: scott says; mainepatsfan
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
two loser teams - who the hell cares????
From a life long Ram fan........shush!
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:41:39 PM PDT
by
LasVegasMac
(Islam: Bringing the world death and destruction for 1400 years!)
To: LasVegasMac
"From a life long Ram fan........shush!" Ha ha ha...I am a 24 year Raider fan. I know your pain!
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
You can't tell anything from the video because of the angle. The ball is kicked from the hashmark, so it looks like it's going sideways ... but it seems to pass to the left of the goal post
just before it hits the net, which suggests that it actually passed between the uprights.
Looking at the players' reactions on both teams, they clearly considered it "good." Nobody on the Browns was doing the "no good" dance.
I'll call it good.
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:44:00 PM PDT
by
r9etb
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
It appears so. Not that it would’ve done the Browns any good.
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:44:13 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
To: darkangel82
Well a tie is better than a loss right???
To: 4everontheRight; ABG(anybody but Gore); Abbeville Conservative; akorahil; albee; Americanwolf; ...
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:46:19 PM PDT
by
Perdogg
(Sarah Palin-Jim DeMint 2012 - Liz Cheney for Sec of State - Duncan Hunter SecDef)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Yes, but if they had a defense they would’ve won.
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:46:51 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
To: darkangel82
To: r9etb
I watched it several times....it looks bad at both views...
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
There is only one position in the stadium where you can tell absolutely where it went without any parallax problems and that is standing directly under the upright, where the ref is positioned.
If you see how much time it takes to get from the kick to where the picture is taken and then how much time it takes to get from there to the net, it looks like the picture must have been taken when the ball was already past the crossbar and back of the endzone so it passed inside the upright.
I'm surprised they don't put mini-cameras on top of the uprights for cases like this.
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:49:50 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Soon everyone will win a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush...well, except for George Bush.)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
I have been a Browns fan since 1988 so nothing surprises me anymore with them.
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:50:05 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
To: LasVegasMac
two loser teams - who the hell cares???? Those are the second and third most important football teams in Ohio you're talking about. :-)
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:51:32 PM PDT
by
KarlInOhio
(Soon everyone will win a Nobel Peace Prize for not being George Bush...well, except for George Bush.)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
Hate to be cynical, and somebody else already kinda said it, but are either of these two teams going to go anywhere near a playoff game, unless they’re sitting in the stands?
parsy, who says this would only be important if it was the Cowboys, and they had lost because of it.
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:52:41 PM PDT
by
parsifal
(Abatis: Rubbish in front of a fort, to prevent the rubbish outside from molesting the rubbish inside)
To: LasVegasMac
Why doesn’t Columbus have a pro - NFL Team?
Cause Cinci and Cleveland would want one to.
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:53:50 PM PDT
by
HiramQuick
(work harder ... welfare recipients depend on you!)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
At the angle, only the ref right under the upright could see it. Neither camera view was clear.
To: parsifal
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posted on
10/09/2009 8:56:40 PM PDT
by
darkangel82
(I don't have a superiority complex, I'm just better than you.)
To: parsifal
but are either of these two teams going to go anywhere near a playoff game, unless theyre sitting in the stands?
Cincy is one fluke play away from being 4-0. As it is they probably SHOULD have lost the PIttsburgh game and while I think the FG was no good personally, Cleveland actually outplayed them most of the 2nd half.
If they beat Baltimore, they will have beaten every one in their division, they will be 4-1 and they have Houston the next week which SHOULD mean 5-1. Given that they still play the Browns, Raiders, Chiefs and Lions, getting to 5-1 (or even 4-2) would put them in pretty good position for a playoff spot.
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posted on
10/09/2009 9:02:17 PM PDT
by
MikefromOhio
(Fides et Audax)
To: Jersey Republican Biker Chick
I couldn't tell from watching the video. It looked awfully close. I like the Bengals, so I'm glad they won.
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posted on
10/09/2009 9:03:45 PM PDT
by
altair
(Watch your step! in Obama's America)
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