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NFL: Giants would have been flagged if they spiked it
AP Via ESPN ^ | 1-6-03 | ANON

Posted on 01/06/2003 11:48:10 AM PST by Pharmboy

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To: Alberta's Child
LOL. See my #151. If I were Fassel and the Giants had gotten a second chance to kick that game-winning field goal, I would have punted the ball away.

LOL. True. Giants should never have been in the position to lose the game anyway.

201 posted on 01/06/2003 1:18:23 PM PST by Mrs.Liberty
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To: Dog Gone
Although I will stand corrected, I still haven't located that rule spelled out in the "online" NFL rule guides.

Thanks for the info...

202 posted on 01/06/2003 1:18:23 PM PST by Hatteras
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To: discostu
I hate the Steeler secondary, every 3rd and long gives me an upset stomache.

They're killing me, and will be their ultimate downfall. I also hate how everyone on the D struts and pose for pictures after a second down stuff, only to give up a twenty yard pass completion on third.

That said, K Bell is an absolute wrecking machine, and if he can stay healthy, could carry the day.
203 posted on 01/06/2003 1:18:32 PM PST by mr.pink
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To: mr.pink
"the one chick says "let's make out" I almost dropped by beer."

Heck, I grabbed another beer, and went out looking for her and her friend! teeheehee

204 posted on 01/06/2003 1:19:08 PM PST by walkingdead
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To: justshutupandtakeit
I think Alex Brown will be the next Dent - and he slipped to the 4th round. With Daniels at left end, we're okay there. My major worry is defensive tackle. Traylor and Washington are not getting younger, and both are coming off injuries this year.

I think it may be time to open the auditions there. B-Rob might be an option, and I think that Joe Tafoya could be good, but if we get Jimmy Kenendy, we only have one slot to fill as opposed to two.
205 posted on 01/06/2003 1:19:54 PM PST by hchutch
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To: Alberta's Child
hehehe a trip back through time.

My roommate and I are dieharders from our first games in the early 80's (both born in 75). Our fathers laugh at us because they were sucked into loving the Giants in the 50's and we got sucked into during the 80's. Thankfully we haven't had to live through entire decades of futility but those spurts are pretty hard to go through. Somewhere Ray Handley is in his shack in the middle of nowhere cackling like a loon right now.

206 posted on 01/06/2003 1:20:07 PM PST by amused
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To: blackdog
Well, I guess not many gays were watching the playoffs. Imagine that.....
207 posted on 01/06/2003 1:21:47 PM PST by walkingdead
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To: justshutupandtakeit
Here's an interesting late-round (sort of) draft story.

Back in 1985, Pitt DE/OLB Chris Doleman was considered one of the hottest prospects in the NFL draft. The New York Giants did not have a high selection in that draft (they had finished 9-7 the year before), but they sent a scout to the last Pitt game of the season against Notre Dame just to evaluate him anyway.

The scouting report on Doleman was interesting, to say the least. I paraphrase:

Doleman seems like a definite blue-chipper. Great physical pass-rushing skills for a college lineman. Excellent speed. Did not perform as expected, though. Spent most of the game flat on his @ss, courtesy of an unknown Notre Dame tight end named Mark Bavaro. Bavaro looks like a real hidden gem in this draft.

208 posted on 01/06/2003 1:22:06 PM PST by Alberta's Child
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To: Dog Gone
Oh, man, the zebras missed that one bad...

Man, that's gotta hurt - you could arguably say that Rush should have been 2-for-4 in his picks...

You can bet this is gonna have the Giants irritated for a while...
209 posted on 01/06/2003 1:23:51 PM PST by hchutch
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To: My2Cents
No- all records in the NFL of that nature- longest run, most passing yards, most consecutive completions, most rushing yards, etc. HAVE TO BE SET AGAINST EITHER THE BRONCOS OR THE VIKINGS. I believe it is an NFL rule.
210 posted on 01/06/2003 1:24:01 PM PST by ThinkingMan
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To: Pharmboy
giants = losers = morons = golfing while the Eagles win SB XXXVII
211 posted on 01/06/2003 1:24:27 PM PST by Libertarian4Bush
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To: Alberta's Child
It looks like as a Giant's fan you will have to join the Raider's fans on bad calls ending games. I just heard this on Dan Patrick's ESPN show and it is posted on NFL.com. Rich Seubert was an eligible receiver.The NFL say's it was a bad call and the giants should have got the ball back.
212 posted on 01/06/2003 1:24:37 PM PST by Captain Beyond
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To: Pharmboy
not to mention that he could have chucked it out of bounds
213 posted on 01/06/2003 1:25:05 PM PST by Libertarian4Bush
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To: mr.pink
I'm a big fan of the EA Sports Madden series, and I always play the Steelers (some especially bitter times I also play whoever is going against the Cowboys to make sure the go 0-16). Yesterday afternoon watching the game I'm doing the usual fanatic stuff bitching at the secondary, the wife comes in sees something other than Madden football on the computer (Neverwinter Nights actually, but she doesn't know what the games are) looks at the TV, sees them blow another 3rd and long to my profanity laiden insults and says "wow the Madden series really is accurate".

Bell's a linebacker. Someway somehow even with all the guys we lose to free agency (like Holmes going to the Browns last summer) we always keep a great set of linebackers. But I think it's telling that nobody ever tries to steal our corners or safeties.
214 posted on 01/06/2003 1:25:44 PM PST by discostu
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To: amused
Well well well, the truth comes out, and I'm telling you, I knew something was fishy with the ending of that game, but couldn't quite put my finger on it do to the mistaken information be foisted upon us by the Fox announcers.

I knew that games cannot end on offsetting penalties, and it has happend before.

And now will those football ignorants please shut up about "it's not interference if the player's ineligible" nonesense. Seubert was eligible. That position is always eligible in that formation.

Of course the game never should have gotten to that point, but it did. And yet again, the Giants get screwed by poor officiating.

Well at least the NFL is sorry....
215 posted on 01/06/2003 1:26:23 PM PST by motzman
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To: hchutch
You can bet this is gonna have the Giants irritated for a while...

With a few adjustments, the Giants will be the most dangerous team in the NFL next year.
216 posted on 01/06/2003 1:28:09 PM PST by motzman
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To: motzman
Well at least the NFL is sorry....

About as sorry as Clinton was {/sarcasm}

Damn them to Hades.

217 posted on 01/06/2003 1:28:50 PM PST by amused
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To: Alberta's Child
They couldn't get Doleman, but they got the guy who was knocking Doleman on his ass!

Bavaro didn't do that badly in the NFL, IIRC.
218 posted on 01/06/2003 1:29:19 PM PST by hchutch
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To: Dog Gone
I don't think it would have made much difference even if they were given another play. You have an out-of-practice
long snapper, a brain dead holder and an inept kicker- them scoring would have been similiar to the kids on the short bus performing Shakespear on the way to school.
219 posted on 01/06/2003 1:31:08 PM PST by ThinkingMan
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To: Libertarian4Bush
golfing while the Eagles win SB XXXVII

Talk about counting your chickens...Maybe you "sense" the Iggles will win the SB...

BUT HOW WOULD YOU KNOW??? THE EAGLES HAVE NEVER WON A SUPER BOWL.

Get it out now, because Michael Vick is going to destroy Filthydelphia
220 posted on 01/06/2003 1:31:17 PM PST by motzman
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