Posted on 02/02/2009 4:02:54 PM PST by TheBigB
(excerpted)... According to NFL VP of Officiating Mike Pereira, the replay official upstairs did see the play clearly.
“We confirmed it was a fumble,” said Pereira. “The replay assistant in the replay booth saw it was clearly a fumble. The ball got knocked loose and was rolling in his hand before it started forward. He has to have total control.”
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Go look at the YouTube video and ask yourself honestly if the poster’s view that it was a pass (12 ft. with a little wobbling spiral) was not in fact a pass. That the league called it otherwise doesn’t change his view of the event. The play may have been “decided” by the league, but that doesn’t create reality. I looked it up. Bad calls occur all the time.
Ask myself honestly?
Wow, thanks for insinuating I’m a liar for stating that the fumble was a fumble.
Change all the nouns in this discussion and it bears a powerful resemblance to “Bush Lost Florida.”
That was no fumble. The defender was putting pressure on the hand, but the ball never came loose until the arm was moving forward.
The NFL just doesn’t want to admit it blew the call. Again.
And yet he is not entitled to his own reality. There is only one reality, the one with the game-ending fumble.
Well, I don’t think anyone has been called blind, retarded, or moronic yet. We’re making progress. lol :)
Don't think of it as a battle. I think of it as an evening's amusement.
Believe me, I am powerfully amused.
Things that make you go hmmmmmm. Bad Steelers!
This amounts to a full fledged battle of wits amongst and between "unarmed" people.
P.S. It was a fumble.
Nice to see you, FRiend. Seems like it's been a while.
:-)
There is only one reality, Warner had the ball it came away from his hand and hit the ground, bounced and was picked up. Now, the poster is not at issue about this reality. He has a different interpretation of whether the officials called it correctly when they interpret this as a fumble. The interpretation is not the reality.
The NFL referee committee already threw Ed Hoculi, one of the best officials in the game, under the bus when he made bad calls. They are not afraid to police their own and they have a proven track record of doing this. It was clearly a fumble, and the only ones arguing otherwise are disgruntled Browns fans and haters.
JM
Seriously--"should have took?"
Since I saw the game and that play, He CLEARLY didn’t have control of the ball, it was wobbling in his hand as he tried to pass it while it wobbled or to down it to avoid the sack
Sorry, he fumbled and lost!
I think there were 5 seconds. Not much time, but it, at the very least, deserved a long booth review. This Super Bowl was not nearly as foul smelling as Super Bowl XL vs the Seahawks (one of the most obviously thrown Super Bowls in history), but it did have a slight stink to it.
I’m glad to see I’m not the only one who saw that the Steeler’s winning touchdown was a farce. It was obvious he only had one foot down.
Sigh. I debated this last night and with people at work today.
Guess you and I are the only fans with good eyesight!
The facts are these: Warner fumbled, and Santonio Holmes caught the ball under triple coverage and had both feet down inside the field. Game over.
Arizona showed up to lose on Sunday. They lived up to the expectation everyone had for them. No amount of citing obscure NFL arcanum will change that.
Better luck next year, Cardinals.
Losers yell "DEAL" and winners tell jokes.
It's the way it has always been and always will be.
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