And that made my feel bad for Bengals fans...until I remembered how they cheered when Roethlisberger was injured, and how at least one bottle was thrown at him as he left the field.
So what? Nearly all penalties are ‘provoked’.
The only fitting end to this game would have been for both teams to lose.
During injury timeouts LOTS of people wind up on the field that the rules say shouldn’t be. You always get players and coaches milling about. Given this situation I don’t doubt the league will be looking at actually enforcing restrictions during injuries. Though the quoted rule doesn’t actually apply, that’s about team timeouts, this was an injury timeout, which probably has similar rules but would be in a different section.
Sounds like sour grapes to me. Those two Bengal “Thugs” deserved their penalties and should be fined for stupidity.
Bengals blew it and the Steelers coach got away without a flag for his actions. I don’t see them beating Denver, though - but that’s why they play the games.
It seems like poetic justice to me.
Plus no team deserves to lose a game when they make a somersault touchdown and STILL manage to keep the ball held to the body. That was way cool!
Or to help lose a game you had bet money on.
#blackcoachesonthefieldmatter
The coach was out there to protect his team.
What you most likely haven't seen is Burfict kneeing Ben's shoulder after Ben was down:
The officals blew many calls. No excessive celebration penalty when whoever ran into the tunnel. Or the fumble that was a fumble and a touchdown scored back only to be called back because the whistle blew.
Only solution is for drones to have a camera on each player. LOL
Reminds me of the Steelers stealing the Super Bowl from the Seahawks with ridiculous, made-up penalties a few years ago. What is there about this team that allows them to get away with this crap?
I guess they walk on water, huh?
Should have been offsetting penalties (against the coach and Jones). That said, the kicker was making the kick from the spot on the field where Burfict committed his penalty.
Someone on the Bengals staff needs to have a sit down with Burfict and see if he ever plans to play the game WITHIN the boundaries of the rules.
Two thoughts: 1) I turned on the TV to watch a fight and a
football game broke out and 2) The game looked like an hour long prison riot!
That was the worst ending to any football game that I’ve seen.
Burfict should go to prison for assault. Late hit to the head when, on a worst case, he should have been going for the body.
It was sickening to see the receiver drop to the ground almost lifeless after the hit to the head.
I didn’t see the second infraction, so I don’t know who instigated it. But Burfict deserved all 30 yards of the penalty. The fact that the last 15 yards was assigned to some other infraction was just to make the bookkeeping correct.
Burfict is an Oakland CA Thug. You can take the boy out of the Ghetto, but you can’t always take the Ghetto out of the boy. Pac Man??? Well, we all know his history.
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