Posted on 02/07/2006 4:55:05 PM PST by bikepacker67
When I go on "Who Wants to be a Millionaire" will you be my SPORTS info telephone call. (Poll the crowd, remove half the choices, CALL A FRIEND!)
Time reveals the Referees were from seven (7) different officiating crews. Time reveals the main subject of SB XL was the sub-standard officiating.
Time for full-time officials.
Too bad you haven't been watching the NFL long enough to know the rules.
But that has been the trend for all the whiners and crybabes. There was one true bad call -- the Hassleback supposed illegal tackle. But the way the Steelers were playing, I doubt the 15 yards made any difference.
I heard that BigBen said on Letterman (Leno?) last night that he didn't think he scored.
Even HE didn't like the officiating.
There were two bad calls in the Colts/Steelers game. There was the catch/fumble/recovery that was called incomplete but was called obviously wrong even after instant replay. That was the problem, the ref and the audience at home were watching the same footage and he still got it wrong. There was also the metaphysical impossibility: the Colts' D line running into the Steelers' O line with nary a penalty called.
I saw the Seattle rally ... I don't know how, but I missed a few parts of Holmgren's speech? He blamed a lot of people ... he just didn't acknowledge his part in not providing the Seahawk players with the needed tools to be successful.
#1 his apologies for such poor planning and missing standard Pittsburgh gimmick play were missing?
#2 his lack of planning on running a basic two minute drill with clock management was missing?
#3 Seattle's inability to move a FG kicker into better field position through short yardage play calls was missed>
#4 Why would a defense provide the Steelers an eight man front with shooting gaps knowing the only RB in the game has 4.3 forty yard speed? That resulted in a 75 yard touchdown run by Parker.
#5 Seattle failed to consistently exploit the corner-man coverage after the 1st quarter
#6 No one corrected the miserable punting game to emphasize field position and not strictly endzone kicks.
#7 Why didn't Seattle move the offensive waggle plays AWAY from a struggling and obivously nervous TE (Stevens)
#8 Why didn't Seattle run the NFL MVP behind a future Hall of Fame lineman all night long??? Why didn't they try?
Why didn't Mike Holmgren tell Matt Hasslebeck that his commercial sting with Rogaine was a failure?!?!
They just showed him admitting it on the Letterman show last night.
I have no affiliation to Seattle. Anyone who thinks those were good calls never played football, likes Pittsburgh, or had money on Pittsburgh. The only people defending the NFL are yes men whose careers depend on the ignorant masses believing that professional sports are legitimate. The Super Bowl was an embarassment. Not one person has actually said the calls were right. They just throw out red herrings about Seattle failing to capitalize. It is difficult to capitalize when the game is fixed by the refs.
The calls were close enough not to make a huge deal about it. But the calls did go mostly against Seatle, but that's part of the game.
Do you know the answer to my clip/tackle question. IIRC, Hasselback committed a clip and a tackle on the same play. Does that result in a penalty by rule?
There will be one basic measure by which to assess the officiating. If one or more of these officials are fired before next season, then you've good a very good indication that the calls were downright miserable.
Should be repeated.
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yes I have some questions about that call as well....as well as the holding call before that (when they got down to the 1 yard line).
But the calls the Seattle fans are screaming about were either A) textbook or B) inconclusive upon review.
There's nothing to be done.
Seattle fan needs to start worrying about signing Shaun Alexander. The rumblings already are that he doesn't want anything to do with them now unless they pay him bigtime. Seattle doesn't want to do that because at his age (29) he's almost out of time.
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works for me :)
You haven't been paying attention.
So is the era when Alberta's Child wastes one Sunday evening every year watching increasingly mediocre Super Bowl games. You're absolutely right.
I honestly thought that the supposed clipping occured because he was going for the tackle and the Pittsburgh guy without the ball kinda ran into him.
Generally that doesn't get called on a play like that. I have seen it before, but honestly I didn't think it was right at the time.
I thought I was the only one who noticed?
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