Finally can address that bitter loss yesterday.
1. No fan should have to endure 16 penalties, 11 false starts, three missed field goals to win and your team just giving the game away to the #1 team in the conference on the road in their hostile place.
2. Terrible, terrible job by Fox Sports (and the refs). Absolutely unwatchable. They didn't go the replay after many plays...they're more interested in flashing graphics, Family Guy promos, and that bloated idiot Siragusa adding nothing.
The Eli interception... THEY NEVER SHOWED A REPLAY! A friend who arrived at halftime came in the room and the first thing he said was "Well, was it interference or not?" We didn't know what he was talking about; he was listening to the game on the car radio and the announcers were livid that the receiver was knocked to the ground and the ball was therefore an easy interception. How would we know? Instead, we could say definitively that there would be a special episode of "Prison Break" coming up.
And the endless commercials... Fox didn't give the viewer a BREAK. If play stopped for so much as one minute, they went to commericial. And TWICE they didn't make it back in time, including Feely's kick to win it in regulation! INEXCUSABLE!
3. I'm most mad at the refs not for hurting the Jints, but for general incompetence. Endless delays, reviews, conferences, clock re-sets... and they didn't even bother to make a call on Toomer's catch because, well, "We'll just review it anyway!". Wussies. INEXCUSABLE.
I generally don't blame them for the false starts, but a few of them were, well, a bit ticky-tack. They throw a flag if a OT twitches a butt muscle 1/1000th of a second before the snap, but don't throw a flag when two defenders grab and hold and generally manhandle Shockey on every single play. But it falls to Eli and particularly Coughlin to remedy the line calls, so they get a lions-share of the blame.
4. Good job by the 'Hawks and their fans (even though we had you guys), we'll see you again in January... hopefully in the Meadowlands!
5. KILL, AND I MEAN KILL, THE COWBOYS THIS WEEKEND.
We wuz robbed!
The Cowboys are in for a world of hurt as a team full of (very rightfully) frustrated Giants demonstrate why they are the second-best team in the NFL right now.
Yesterday's game was a remarkable showing for the G-men. On the road, playing the top team in the NFC, and they handed Seattle's beaks to them - there ain't no Seahawk under the illusion that they won that game on the merits. To think that had that last kick been made, the Giants would have won despite 16 penalties (many of which were real cheap calls by the refs) and 2 missed game-winning field goals!
The single most impressive thing about the game was the way they put the hurt on Shaun Alexander - he needed the ball over thirty times to break 100 yds.
Well said.