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Game's third team upstaged Steelers, Hawks
ESPN ^ | 2/6/06 | Michael Smith

Posted on 02/06/2006 8:53:10 AM PST by highlander_UW

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To: USS Alaska
everal weeks ago, the Bus scored a touchdown but the REFEREES called a penalty. The Steelers quit and cried foul and walked off the field. Wrong? OH, Ben then threw a TOUCHDOWN pass on the next play. Great teams overcome adversity. Losers bitch and moan. HAVE A LITTLE: ----

LOL!

121 posted on 02/06/2006 10:45:30 AM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: beyond the sea

If Heath Miller had that many drops against Indy two weeks ago the Steelers would have been watching the game last night on television.


122 posted on 02/06/2006 10:46:40 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: in hoc signo vinces
When exactly did the Steelers get their first, first down?

As best I can recall, it was in the second quarter (on 3rd and 8, maybe?) and was immediately followed by their second first down.

123 posted on 02/06/2006 10:47:10 AM PST by newgeezer (Just my opinion, of course. Your mileage may vary.)
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To: MarMema

I am a fan of neither team, however I did think the steelers would win. that said I find it interesting that you think they played better. I thought that the seahawks played better, and that the steelers just "got lucky".

I disagreed with the refs on a few calls, but those went as much against as for pittsburgh. and the fact that I disagreed with them doesn't mean they were wrong, just that I disagreed - they know thier job pretty well or they wouldn't have been there.


124 posted on 02/06/2006 10:50:22 AM PST by camle (keep your mind open and somebody will fill it full of something for you.)
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To: kevkrom
Rule 7-4-1(e) states that the runner is considered down by contact when he is "contacted by a defensive player and he touches the ground with any part of his body other than his hands or feet..."

It says nothing about "as a result of contact".

125 posted on 02/06/2006 10:56:05 AM PST by Hatteras
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To: mainepatsfan

Yep. Miller is going to be a star in the league for a long time.


126 posted on 02/06/2006 10:56:49 AM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: beyond the sea

I thought he would be when I saw him in college. The Patriots are going to have one in Ben Watson as well.


127 posted on 02/06/2006 11:00:24 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: Hatteras
Read the rest of the rule (the part left out by the elipses:

e) when a runner is contacted by a defensive player and he touches the ground with any part of his body except his hands or feet, ball shall be declared dead immediately. The contact by the defense player must be the cause of the runner going down.

128 posted on 02/06/2006 11:00:36 AM PST by kevkrom ("...no one has ever successfully waged a war against stupidity" - Orson Scott Card)
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To: kevkrom

Good find on the rule, but you won't convince any of the whiners that the officials did noting to benefit the Seahawks in any way, even though they did. Poor sports, I'm glad the Seahawks got their butts kicked. Eleven point margin, game wasn't even close.


129 posted on 02/06/2006 11:02:29 AM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: mainepatsfan

From U. of Georgia? He looks like the real deal.


130 posted on 02/06/2006 11:04:16 AM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: Hatteras
They whistled it incomplete but that was an obviously ridiculous call and both Al Michaels and John Madden didn't say a word

Al Michaels said it should have been ruled a fumble right before the commercial break.

131 posted on 02/06/2006 11:06:49 AM PST by frogjerk (LIBERALISM: The perpetual insulting of common sense.)
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To: beyond the sea

Yup. Unfotunately he missed his rookie year due to injury. He's big and fast.


132 posted on 02/06/2006 11:12:26 AM PST by mainepatsfan
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To: mainepatsfan
Yeh, he's big! How much does he weigh .......... 280?
133 posted on 02/06/2006 11:13:30 AM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: kevkrom
Well, a great number of those losses can be attributed to Ben's injury.

Pittsburgh won two of the three games that Maddux QB'd the team.

Enjoy the win, but XL will always be the "Yeah, but" Super Bowl because of Bill Leavy and crew.

134 posted on 02/06/2006 11:19:59 AM PST by sinkspur (Trust, but vilify.)
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To: sinkspur; kevkrom; Supernatural
I still think that if Tony Dungee's son doesn't commit suicide, the Colts are the Super Bowl champs today.

..... and I used to think you were somewhat intelligent. I must have been thinking of someone else.

135 posted on 02/06/2006 11:20:17 AM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: beyond the sea

Stupid is as stupid does. Or says.


136 posted on 02/06/2006 11:21:34 AM PST by Supernatural (All the truth in the world adds up to one big lie! bob dylan)
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To: sinkspur; kevkrom
The Steelers are 7-5 in November, sneak in as the sixth seed

Sneak in?

"Stormed in" would be the appropriate term.

137 posted on 02/06/2006 11:22:06 AM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: beyond the sea

Most importantly, after starting 7-5, they are now 15-5 and Super Bowl champs. BTW, 'hawks fans, those 15 wins match what your team finished up with (15-4).


138 posted on 02/06/2006 11:23:54 AM PST by kevkrom ("...no one has ever successfully waged a war against stupidity" - Orson Scott Card)
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To: kevkrom
It also proves that the #6 team in the AFC is still better than the #1 team in the NFC. ;) -----

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:-)

139 posted on 02/06/2006 11:23:56 AM PST by beyond the sea (Cal Thomas: If only Robert Bork had cried ...................)
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To: beyond the sea

yahh right.

If it had been the Steelers who recieved this onslaught of bad calls, there would of be drunken riots in the streets of Detriot and all of pittsburgh would look like the gaza strip this morning.



140 posted on 02/06/2006 11:25:30 AM PST by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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