Look from this angle:
Notice that the ball is tucked one end under his chin, as you observed, and the other into his elbow behind the white armband (circled in the last pic). If I can find a better side shot, I'll post it.
Posted on 02/06/2006 1:51:52 PM PST by Phlap
Bob Waggoner, who served as the back judge in the game, is a Pittsburgh native and played linebacker at Juniata College from 1969 through 1972.
I think that watching the game proved that the pittsburg players were nothing but a bunch of punks since they were always cheap shotting the seattle player. Its apparently the people in pittsburg dosent know a thing about sportsmanship.
Football is a contact sport. At least in the AFC.
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Looks good to me. Thanks for posting it.
Wish I could be at the parade tomorrow. But just too many miles here. Should be great.
Surmise all you wish.
I've been a fan for many years, and have always preferred seeing the best team win.
You've circled his arm, not the ball, which is up and to the right (the brown thing).
You could? How much?
That is NOT when the nose of the ball broke the plane. That happened at the apex of the jump. That pic is at the bottom, well after the TD had occurred.
Got a screen capture, or an online source for the video? I'd love to have a better pic of that.
No, but I TIVO'd it multiple times. I watched it and saw when the ball (tucked under his arm but there notheless) broke the plane.
It only has to break the plane by a euclidean intersection.
Look at the Live thread and you will see many with huge, HD TV's who confirm it.
The angle and timestamp of that pic isn't the crucial one.
You cannot defend the Offensive Pass Int call. First of all that is NEVER CALLED in the NFL...ever. Michael Irvin and MANY others would have about half their catch total. Secondly he didn't "push off" there was slight contact. Thirdly the Pitt defender made contact first, so a holding call should have been called on Pitt by that logic (or pass Int.)
Seattle made plenty of mistakes, but anyone trying to say the officiating wasn't one sided is engagint in revisionist history. Whether it was "fixed" or not is beside the point. At BEST it was incompetence.
I think the real loser here is the Steelers. Like it or not, a large percentage of those who watched the game have their doubts as to whether Pittsburg has the better team. That's too bad. They probably do, but we don't know that because of the terrible job the refs did. They dominated the game. They affected the scoring and perhaps the outcome. That's not the way it is supposed to be.
there wont be any more a taint on this than there was for new england and the "tuck rule."
the refs didn't bottle up alexander
the w is just that.
all else is whining
And three defensive starters went down.
OK...but I was just pointing out that the circled area was his arm (the white blob seems to be the wristband).
I think that call was close...could have gone either way.
The really horrid call was that blocking below the waist against Hasselbeck. That was beyond absurd.
I agree with you. I wasn't against the Steelers...I did think the Seahawks would edge them out, but regardless, I expected it to be close.
But this was an ugly win, tainted by awful officiating.
And both teams looked bad, as well, IMO.
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