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One more thing: Did you guys know that the official who kicked this whole thing off with the "I-can-technically-get-away-with-calling-this-so-I-will-and-besides-the-Steeler-is-asking-me-to" pass interference call on Darrell Jackson is a Pittsburgh native? I'm sure the guy didn't have a preference for who won the game though...just a little bit of Super Bowl XL* trivia.


226 posted on 02/08/2006 11:09:27 AM PST by Junior_G
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pass interference call on Darrell Jackson

Ha! That was so blatantly offensive pass interference that they ought to use film of it when training officials the types of things they should be flagging os offensive pass interference. What really should be chafing you is that Jackson probably didn't need to push off, but cheating is cheating, and the penalty was correctly called.

229 posted on 02/08/2006 11:16:21 AM PST by kevkrom ("...no one has ever successfully waged a war against stupidity" - Orson Scott Card)
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The Steeler wasn't "asking" him to. In one of the replays you can see the ref and he was clearly reaching for the flag as soon as the push happened but missed, first he got nothing then he came up with the blue turn over beanbag (you can see the blue hanging below his hand as he starts the throw before he spots the blue and reverses motion), then he finally came up with the flag. If he's have actually gotten his flag on the first grab it would have been in the air before Jackson caught the ball, but he missed. And so what if he's from Pitt? I'm from Arizona and hate the Cardinals, where someone lives or is born doesn't necessarily dictate their favorite team or even if they have a favorite.


239 posted on 02/08/2006 11:30:47 AM PST by discostu (a time when families gather together, don't talk, and watch football... good times)
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