Posted on 02/08/2006 10:43:11 AM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
Turns out Mike Holmgren lost respect, as well as the NFL championship at Super Bowl XL by insisting that officiating was a factor in the Seahawks' 21-10 loss to the Steelers. Holmgren's better than that.
As a veteran NFL coach, he at least ought to be held to a higher standard.
Sadly, Holmgren pointed the finger instead of the thumb.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Whaa whaa...
ESPN? I don't care what analysts think. I played the game for many years and have been watching for more than that, I make those judgements myself and turn off the sound. Seattle says bad calls and Steelers say not. I bet it is 50/50 across the spectrum of viewers.
If the NFL apologizes I will never watch a game again ( I am sure the NFL gives a rip ). It shows that they are getting more PC when they should grow some and say nothing and tend to bad behavior of the players and outrageous salaries instead. Officiating is no better no worse than in previous years. Seahawks cannot blame their poor performance on the officials. Seems like everytime a team that is suppose to win loses it is always someone else's fault.
Colts blamed to refs as well, Manning blamed his line it goes on and on. McNabb blamed whatever.
I don't suppose you're man enough to go find and post a link to the followup story to the story you posted, where Cowher said that he was wrong to do that?
You are seriously dishonest!
Item #1, once the officials leave the field, there is no option of dispute. Cowher's dispute was about the last play of the game. Ergo, he had to catch the ref and dispute BEFORE the ref left the field.
Item #2, Cowher then apologized for doing that, and said that it was wrong. The jury is still out for Holmgren.
You've got a lot of nerve calling us hypocrits when you purposly embellish one side of this story, in your lying manner, and then don't mention the other facts that easily show you to be a hypocrit.
Go find a link to the rest of the story and post it if you aren't a hypocrit.
Yeah and no Seahawk ( or Steeler ) OL was holding. I see it every play.
If they called every penalty the game would take 5 hours.
I am all for dropping all penalties except, offsides, certain illegal procedures ( movement and number of players on field ), and certain personal fouls ( spearing and fask masking ).
You want to ground it fine do it.
If high dollar WR's want to tlka smack, then play on an even field and earn those catches. Open season on QB's if they have the ball. I for one am tired of watching rushers having to let up so as not to get a "hitting the QB" penalty whaa whaa.
Kind of like government less is better.
You must have come in late. That's like saying no one's mentioned Kerry was in Viet Nam.
Hope you didn't miss the NFL much. They've already apologized for the clipping call on the Seattle quarterback.
I've always looked Holmgren as the Al Gore of NFL coaches. He carried this smug, smarmy arrogant attitude, "I invented the Internet!" "Well I invented the West Coast offense!", and the arrogance was unearned. One Superbowl championship a decade ago, two losses since and a bunch of mediocre seasons in between. I believe the only coach to lose to two wildcard teams in the Superbowl (although Denver was a great team in 97, merely sputtered late). I've never liked Holmgren and I was glad that the Seahawks lost, and I find this embarassing officiating recount "hanging yellow flag" whine-fest hilarious.
The NFC stunk. The NFC West was composed of a bunch of teams that wouldn't win the Big 12 North. Seattle's record was inflated by wins over embarrassingly bad teams, and they would have lost to San Diego or Cincinatti in the Superbowl.
Hmm... I have not seen a clip since the season for me was over when the gun went off and I changed channels. I can't take pre/post game crap and all the has beens and never was doing the what if's.
I have been leaning toward not watcing now for several months. I totally quit 5 years ago and just started again the end of last season to have something to talk about with my sports enthused boys. I tire of the pandering, whining, and posturing of people that make more in a week than 80% of us do in a year. It is just a game and if I can't watch without the extra, well I have better things to do. In teh scope of life it means little but I like the "game" itself.
In this game, the refs sucked, both teams sucked, and I hear the half time show sucked. I think what bugged me most about the refs was that whenever something exciting happened, it was like the refs jumped in and said, "I'm sorry, this game is getting too interesting. We're going to throw a trash flag stand around and talk for twenty minutes, killing all sense of excitement." I watched animals eating people on Spike TV about half the time, because a Depends advertisement was more exciting than what went on during that game.
Come on, admit it - you're just p.o.'ed Oklahoma can't beat Texas anymore and are taking it out on Mike. BTW, he was one of the offensive co-ordinators under Walsh at S.F.
So, did the kicker's accuracy suffer because he used the wrong mechanics for these two attempts? Because in both cases the kick was long enough. Now if you are suggesting that the reason he missed is because his teammates didn't get him closer for the attempt, then you are correctly placing the blame for the two missed kicks on the Seahawks.
OU owns UT. We felt sorry for Young and wanted him to leave with at least one win. Watch Adrian rule the NCAA the next 2 years.
That is good. LOL.
Sure, this a free country...he can speak his mind...at the risk of forever being known as a sore loser and whiner.
It was obvious to all except for Steelers fans than every benefit of the doubt went the Steelers direction.
GO...BACK...AND...READ...THE...ARTICLE
Go back and watch the Colts-Steelers playoff to witness how a real champion overcomes bad calls!
Maybe you oughta switch to DU....
Second, the Colts' game had the metaphysical impossibility play: The Colts' D ran into the Steelers' O and there was no penalty called. None. That is not possible. False start, offsides, encroachment, something had to be called.
2 errors !!
#1.....The Big 12 North will probably put about 3 players into the NFL next year and none of them will even start. How could an NFL team NOT win the big 12 North EVERY YEAR ?? (plane crash?)
#2.....San Diego did not even make the playoffs. How could they make it to the Super Bowl ?
Just courious
I hate horsey, but found the picture was one of the few things that POS ever drew that was correct.
Oh, and just in case you're not from Seattle, and pulled that toon from the web, Horsey is a vocal, vicious Bush and GOP hater....
It's funny, we in the GOP believe in personal responsibility and accountability...it seems neither are important when it comes to this game...STOP BLAMING EVERYONE BUT YOURSELVES FOR YOUR MISTAKES like missed FG, poor clock mgmt, bad punting, dropped passes...did I miss anything?...read the article.
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