That picture blurly shows the refs made the right call. But that won't stop the whiners.
Posted on 02/06/2006 7:43:25 PM PST by pissant
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RUSH: Josh in Boise, Idaho. Josh, I'm glad you waited. You're up today. Nice to have you on the program.
CALLER: Mega dittos, Rush, from the Gem State.
RUSH: Thank you, sir.
CALLER: First of all I want to say congrats for your Pittsburgh Steelers last night.
RUSH: Thank you.
CALLER: And I myself rooted for Seattle. The Super Bowl is what I wanted to talk to you about, actually. I wanted to beat some of those whiners from the e-mails that were going to read to the punch on this. You still there, Rush?
RUSH: Yeah, I'm still here.
CALLER: Oh, okay. All right. You know, I watched the game last night and I disagreed with a lot of calls but there is no way that the referees in any away influenced the outcome of the game -- and, you know, if I were Holmgren, I would be really insulted as a coach of the Seattle Seahawks that the fans would whine about the referee calling, and the reason why is I would say that the Seahawks didn't have any power to come back to the game, which I thought they put a up a really good fight -- and you know, the bottom line, Rush, is that Pittsburgh deserved to win. As a coach, I've always told my players and my parents to shut up to the referee; don't talk to the referee, and after the game I've never told them to come up with excuses leading to the idea that the referees had something to do with the outcome of the game.
RUSH: Here's the thing, though. I do think the NFL has an officiating problem. This post- season did feature some pretty disastrous calls that the league admitted to a day or two after games were played. But, you know, the old theory is they even out over the course of a season or over the course of two or three seasons, the human element and so forth. It's just I have never seen it before. E-mail today was just loaded with whining Seahawks fans about the officiating. I mean, every fan of every team can cite a big game that you've lost and the officiating didn't go your way, and it's the way of the world. It just the way it is.
I don't want to get into an in-depth game analysis here but I'll just say one thing. I saw some of the worst clock management on behalf of a professional football team in my life in that game last night by the Seattle Seahawks. I was stunned. They just seemed out of control, and when the game started, it looked like the Seahawks were going to own that game in the first quarter. I was really biting the nails.
Josh, I appreciate the phone call.
Yes, the dude tripped while making a cut. Not down by contact with an opposing player. NFL rules, not college rules here.
I guess we've finally hit bottom.
I don't know what you mean.
Heck, we hit bottom when the Hawks fans and the Steeler haters couldn't accept that they got beat by a better team.
Please.......
I know that you know that I know that you know what I mean.
You're not fooling anybody!
Go Tribe!
Seattle should have won that game 17-14.
That picture blurly shows the refs made the right call. But that won't stop the whiners.
I don't think that is the ball unless he's fumbling it.
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