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Posted: 2/7/2006 12:41:07 PM EDT
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it doesn't matter. They coulda made it from two inches from the endzone
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probably just to make the seahawks fans even more angry and upset.
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Roethilisberger "I don't think I got in"
Rest of team "STFU NOOB" |
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Roethilisberger "I don't think I got in"
Ironoxbows "heh, I don't think you did either" |
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I never looked at like that.... Maybe he was stirring the pot a bit. |
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Seahawk fans are looking more and more like Raider fans whining about the stupid fucking tuck rule, get over it you all lost, your team is heading for the shitter next year go back to drinking your starbucks and listening to grunge rock.....
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... So what?
... Just means the score would have been 14-10 instead |
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Combine it with the borderline pushoff call that erased the Seahawks' touchdown and it might have an impact on the game's outcome |
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Before he went to the ground, the ball was even with the white goal line stripe. T.D. Everyone focuses on when he hit the ground and where the ball ended up. That is not the way it is done but did the ball every cross the plane and it did.
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good teams find a way to overcome bad calls, they happen in every game period, I am not a Steeler fan but they sure overcame bad calls in the Colts game. That is because they are champions and they found a way to win. The NFC is far weaker than the AFC and it shows. The Steelers are a better team than Seatle and they are world champs, at least for a year. the Seahawks meantime will fall apart next season and find themselves circling the toilet bowl like a log of shit.... |
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I wish we had stellar teams like the 49ers or the Raiders. Let me wait for the "back in the day we won so may Superbowls." |
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Yep |
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Borderline pushoff? I believe he did pushoff. After all, it did happen 4 feet from the referee. Now, whether or not he pushed off hard enough is not for you or I to decide. The way they have been calling illegal use of the hands on defensive backs for everything after five yards, they need to start penalizing receivers. Fact is, he pushed off and that is a penalty |
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Don't give me that. Frankly I was rooting for the Steelers. Did I, or did I not, call it a "borderline" call? |
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You too, see my post above. |
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INDISPUTABLE VIDEO EVIDENCE
Never forget that when analyzing replays. It was Awful close. If the ball ever crosses the plane, any part of the ball, it's a TD. As close as it was, you really can't say either way - he was quite literally stopped AT the goal line. It was in by an inch, or it was short by an inch. The call on the field was Touchdown. The video evidence cannot prove 100% that it wasn't, so the call stands. OTOH, had the call been that it was short, it would not have been overturned, either. As for the push off in the endzone... That was technically illegal. Just not called very often. I thought it looked worse in regular time than in slo-mo, which is probably why it was called. It was a little push with a big break leading to huge seperation, but in real time you don't realize that the seperation was caused by a really good cut, not by the push. With the slo-mo replay, no way would I call it. But in real time... I can see how the flag would come out. The ref didn't hesitate. |
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It was borderline in 1990, it's an OBVIOUS penalty in 2006. |
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sports.espn.go.com/espn/columns/story?columnist=wojciechowski_gene&id=2322300
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Meh. I think we all got robbed of one half of a football game... The first half sucked hard. |
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Personally I can't stand either of those teams however at least they can both say tehy have won it instead of "wo is me the officials ripped us off, damn" |
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Of course he didn't. Not that those blind refs could tell. I acutally figured some of this would come out about but not so soon and not from him. Good man!
Like I said before...I don't care who won...but the integrity of the game suffers with poor officiating...ESPECIALLY in the Big Game. Sad state of affairs. |
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The refereeing was definitely a factor inthe game. Good teams can overcome one call, but not a questionable call on every big play you make. It's just the Steelers turn to get all the friendly calls the Patriots used to get.
BTW: Trick play touchdown should have been called back too. Quarterback gave a low block during the reverse. From a ruling a few minutes earlier, I though that was a penalty. What the referees really did was take a potentially exciting game and make it mediocre. Both teams seemed to be getting their acts together and a real shootout would have been more exciting than watching momentum constantly being killed with questionable calls. Some day I would like a coach to actually speak up about the officiating. This was not the best crew out there. |
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Like the 2000 presidential election? |
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Not sure where you think the ball is, but it not clear in this pic. Ben had it tucked hard to his chest with his gloved hand breaking the plane. Regardless, I feel the would have punched it in either way. That isn't one of the multiple game-impacting poor calls. I'm not blaming the Steelers. The damn officials should have let them play the game. "A good team find a way to win". BS. Pitt only had three plays all game. It could have been a good close game, the ref didn't allows us to see it. |
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The turning point of the game was the holding call when the Seahawks completed the ball to the 1 yard line. Even Madden commented that it wasn't holding. That ended the Seahawks drive. They tried a 50 yard field goal and missed. That gave the Steelers the ball with the lead 14-10. A couple plays later, the Steelers through the WR to WR touchdown pass which ended the game.
Without the holding call, the Seahawks would have had the ball first and goal. I give it an 80% chance that the Seahawks would have scored and taken the lead 17-14. |
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The way I saw it, and I couldn't care less, the ball got at least TO the plane of the goal, then he jerked it back and after he hit the ground reached it forward again. All you people whining about the refs, COME TO THE SEC, where a defensive back can shove the receiver out of the endzone, turn around and make the interception, and get away with it. Truly breathtaking. |
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Awwww, what the fuck does he know? |
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Define borderline....is it a millimeter short of the goal....or a "little" push-off"? And then there's the Hasselback fumble that wasn't ...because of a little touch...when he was obviously going down on his own without having been touched. The only correct thing to do is replay the whole game, a do-over. |
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It isn't the Seahawks that got robbed.
It's the fans. Game sucked, and it shouldn't have. I expected the Steelers to win, they probably deserved to win, but the fans deserved the game as it would have been without the BS officiating. The low block call all by itself ruined the game, the 'Hawks got rattled and never got it together again, for that they deserved to lose, but they didn't deserve the call that rattled them in the first place. Shame. Should have been at worst a seven point game, if the questionable pushoff call had gone the other way, and the BS low block call had not been made, then all the 'Hawks would have had to do was score from 1st and 1 to have tied the game, since the FG never would have happened in that case. And that's giving Rothlesgurger his TD, which was good IMO. |
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