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The suggestion that the NFL would enlist an entire squad of referees, risk totally destroying their multi-billion dollar sporting monopoly, and hand the game to their chosen team, in order to sell a few thousand more shirts, is beyond ludicrous.

True, but I have yet to see one Steeler fan admit they got the benefit of the doubt on most calls. It wasn't all that bad of an officiated game, but of the most 7 questionable calls the Steelers got 6 of them.

55 posted on 02/07/2006 6:58:53 AM PST by Always Right
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Because we didn't get the benefit of the doubt on most calls. The interference call was legit and by the book, pushing off is EXPLICITLY called out in the rule book as a form of offensive interference. On the holding call you can clearly see the OL has gripped the defender's jersey and is dragging him down. On the Hasselback tackle the rule was called exactly the same way it was called against he Steelers on consecutive games in the regular season, I disagree with the rule but that is consistent with how they caught it. Meanwhile there was a catch and fumble that could have been recovered by the Steelers that was blown dead and incorrectly ruled incomplete, and a block in the back in Roethlisburgher after his second interception that went completely uncalled.

Simmply 100% BS to say most of the calls went for the Steelers. The Big Ben TD was questionable and went for the Steelers, the Hasselback tackle is a bad rule called correctly that went for the Steelers, and then you've got the fumble and block in the back. So that 4 questionable calls, 2 went for each team.


71 posted on 02/07/2006 7:22:19 AM PST by discostu (a time when families gather together, don't talk, and watch football... good times)
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