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To: WillT

What plays would those be? The call on Hasselback for an illegal block WAS lame, The only other poor call I can think
of (Hasseback's fumble) was corrected upon review.


54 posted on 02/05/2006 7:37:46 PM PST by macrahanish #1
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To: macrahanish #1; WillT

The phantom hold and no call horse collar on Alexander.


76 posted on 02/05/2006 7:43:19 PM PST by Perdogg ("Facts are stupid things." - President Ronald Wilson Reagan)
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To: macrahanish #1

The completion to the 1 yard line which was called abck due to a late (very late) penalty for phantom holding. Two plays later if you will remember Alexander was tackled from beind by the shirt collar. The league this year put in a brand new rule dealing with just such a tackle, due to its rick of ruining a guys career. You might recall Madden finally even said, ;that almost looked like a horsecollar tackle. The next play you might recall was an inteception, on a pass that would not have had to be thrown if the officials had called the obvious horse collare personal foul on the previous play. Counting th phantom penalty on hasselback after the int., the official blew three calls in the course of five plays. Each of these calls went against Seattle and the net affect was to totally change the complexion of the game. Also, on the third down that came with about 4 minutes left, the clock was clearly at 0 before Big Ben called timneout. You might recall they needed four yards and got exactly that after the timeout was granted. Congrats to Pittsburg, but also you might note that they received no penalties in the second half, how many did Seattle have?


102 posted on 02/05/2006 7:47:42 PM PST by milwguy
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To: macrahanish #1

Push off in the end zone? A reciever can cutback back and change direction. If the DB runs into to him that is too bad.

Also, in the 3rd Quarter Roth scrambled for a first down cept a Seattle linebacker was blocked from behind... thus Roth gets a first down.

Also a bogus holding call...even still if Stevens caught his passes Seahawks should have won.

Steelers get the win...with an asterisk.


111 posted on 02/05/2006 7:49:46 PM PST by 13foxtrot
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Hasselback was not down by contact. Contact bring you down.

That was a brush of a hand. It was a fumble.


175 posted on 02/05/2006 8:05:42 PM PST by Para-Ord.45
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Did you see the replay of Rothlesberger's supposed touch down. The referee was advancing to place the ball when he suddenly put up his hands an signalled touchdown.

The replay clearly showed that the ball never crossed over into touchdown territory and Rothlesberger knew it.

227 posted on 02/05/2006 8:18:14 PM PST by OldFriend (The Dems enABLEd DANGER and 3,000 Americans died.)
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