Posted on 02/08/2006 5:18:46 AM PST by mcg2000
You can't see the ball, and the call on the field can't be overturned unless the video is conclusive.
Case closed.
I wish we'd won without so much help from Seattle. I think the official blew calls in both directions and I'm not worried about that. It definitely would have been nice to have come out like our previous playoff games and gotten a bonecrushing lead in the first half instead of needing Seattle to leave 16 points on the field in that half to leave us with a skinny lead, would have left me less stressed in the 2nd half. But there is no difference between a W because your offense did well and a W because the other offense did more poorly than yours.
Riiiight.
The is great video evidence, but none shows the ball breaking the plane.
I saw it on television. I suggest you review the tape.
That's true. Or Bettis could have fumbled, there is always that 1 in a 1000 chance that could happen again. Reguardless if you are going to count on getting questionable calls, you don't deserve to win. Seattle did not do enough to deserve to win and probably would not have won even if they got some of the calls.
It's done all the time. You need a new screenname.
stupid yankee
that's a cool photo... but your photo interpretation skills are much better than mine.
The frame posted is the best evidence available. That is at the point where Ben had made is furthest forward progress. It clearly shows the wristband did in fact score. Whether the ball behind that arm crossed the line is anyones guess.
The frame posted is late.
If it was just one bad touchdown call, the Seahawks fans would be over it by now.
stupid yankee
And I thought that Seattle was the Whine Capital of America . Yeah, Tex you prove the point that everybody's a tough guy hiding behind a computer monitor.
It is done all the time, but the ball is spotted incorrectly more times than not, often by a foot or more. You watch any play and you will see errors on almost every spot. It is the most imprecise ruling in the game, but we must live with the human judgement. Calling the touchdown was not a bad call. It just may not have been the correct call, but it was within the margin of error of what you can expect from a human being.
You Pittsburgh spinmeisters should go into politics. But really, just saying that the officiating didn't favor one side over the other-----no matter how many times you say it-----doesn't make it so.
It was the correct call.
Why would someone who spent the time to try to prove Pittsburgh scored, not post the frame that shows the most forward progress? If there is an earlier frame I would like to see it, but this looks like the frame just miliseconds before the Seatle defender hits him, which would be the furthest Ben got.
Of course just saying that doesn't make it so. It is so, independent of whether anyone says it. Truth is truth, and its veracity is not dependent on one or more proclamations as such.
This is just silly. No one can be seriously arguing that the ref spotted the ball and upheld the spot based upon Ben's way-after-the-play movement of the ball.
Hello? A ref who is fooled by such tomfoolery happening right in front of him would not be in the NFL for very long.
And hello? The video was clear that Ben landed outside of the end zone and then moved the ball forward. An official who could not see that on the video would earn an extra deduction on his 1040 for being blind.
The dispute was where his forward progress stopped. Not where the ball ended up after the play. Ben's optimistic movement of the ball after the play was over was not a factor.
Please.
SD
Then why don't you post the frame that isn't late, the one that shows the ball breaking the plane? Oh, that's right-----because it doesn't exist.
Of course, the converse is also true. Saying that the officiating did favor one side over the other doesn't make it so, either.
The fact is, the only truly bad call that went against the Seahawks was the "low block" call against Hasslebeck. I consider that less egregious than the fact that the referee apparently doesn't know what the "down by contact" rule is, according to his incorrect overturning of Hasslebeck's fumble in the second half.
steelyourfaith's answer to everyone who disagrees with him/her/it is to say they are whining, let it go. I've told you before not to wallow in the mud with pigs, they like it.
On another subject - are you missing a class, statistics perhaps? ;-)
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