I know, I know. Just trying to get the Hawks fans stirred up again. Call it "football trolling".
Holmgren lost standing in my book by his behavior yesterday. And everybody is comparing him negatively to Cowhler, because of Bill's good sportsmanship after the TERRIBLE call in the Colts game.
BUT...
Before we canonize Cowhler as the king of sportmanship, I'll remind everyone of a certain playoff game (of which I was in attendance), where a kicker missed a winning field goal, but got another chance because the Steelers were called for roughing the kicker. Cowhler's behavior after that game can only be described as, er, "unsportsmanlike". I thought he was going to have a seizure.
All coaches have their moments. Fans are even worse. As a Titans fan, I still have to put up with Bills fans trying to prove to me that it was a forward lateral.
Anyway, these ssort of things help make a good living for sports talk show hosts.
Good example. I remember they opened the next NFL season with a computer reproduction of that play that PROVED CONCLUSIVELY it was a legal lateral (by about a yard IIRC).
Both teams stunk for the most part, Seattle stunk worse. The officiating was bad but it was equally bad both ways.
This NFL LIHOP/MIHOP Moonbat stuff is right out of DU.
My favorite Cowher moment with a ref was a time where there were 12 guys for the other team on the field that wasn't called. Cowher was furious and demanded a replay review, which wasn't granted. At halftime, he shoved a press box photo of the play (showing 12 defenders on the field) onto the head referee.