Posted on 02/06/2006 3:20:41 PM PST by maineman
where do you come down on this game? I think Seattle won. how about you.
I would have thought that Pittsburg would be penalized for having extra players on the field. Then again, referees rarely penalize themselves.
A 12th man doesn't do you a whole lot of good... when you're up against 18.
For Seattle, although Hasselbeck had good stats, there is no way that some of the other great QB's we've seen win Super Bowls in the last 15-20 years (Favre, Young, Montana, Simms, Aikman, Brady) would have let their offense fall apart like they did at the end of each half.
where do you come down on this game? I think Seattle won. how about you.
AGREED
So far only the Steelers (apt name), Steeler's fans and Rush Limbaugh think they won - the rest of the country thinks that player number 127 should be named MVP for the game ....
Just my humble female opinion
Regards,
Jane
That, and clock management, which is a sideline responsibility. Ending the first half with a timeout left was poor, as was Hasselback spending thirty seconds running around calling an audible (or whatever the hell he was doing). That looked Mickey Mouse.
But the worst of the game was the officiating. When the officials are so much a part of the game, something is wrong.
There's an unwritten rule in the National Hockey League when it comes to the refs in the playoffs: you guys don't fight, and we'll let you play.
That's the way it usually works out. There are very few fights once the playoffs start, and penalties aren't called unless they're blatant.
Thus, the NHL playoffs are among the best championship series in professional sports.
Too much interference from the refs in this year's NFL playoffs have made them the worst in my memory.
As a St. Louis Rams fan, I don't like the Seahawks. That said, they won, in my opinion.
The officals have nice long careers in ahead of them in the WWE where bad officiating is the norm.
When a receiver puts his hand on the DB's chest and delivers a stiff arm with a full extension for the push off, that will almost always be (correctly) called offensive pass interference, unless the receiver's name happens to be Randy Moss. Get over it. It was a correct call regardless of what Michael Irvin (not the most objective source on the subject of offensive PI though one of the more experienced in the area), Steve Young, and John "Oh heck that wasn't a penalty" Madden have to say about it.
When an offensive lineman is flat out beaten by the defensive end so he throws an arm around the guy's neck or shoulder to try to ride him off of the QB (in one case literally tackling him in the other simply slowing him down enough for the QB to get rid of the ball), it will be called holding if it is the 33% of the time that the back judge or ref actually sees it. "Holding, Number 75 Offense" should have been called two or three times more than it was, but the two times that he got called were both good calls. Just because the one that resulted in a big pass being called back was slightly less flagrant than the other one didn't make it a bad call.
Forget the game, what about ABCs production? I thought they thoroughly sucked. Al Michaels acted bored, and as usual we often went to commercial with no expanation-time out? end of quarter? what happened? Madden goes off on wild tangents and the two of them have long conversations about some off the wall thing and ignore what is going on on the field. Just another Monday night in my opinion.
That was somewhat the case last night as well. There were not many penalties, other than blatant ones that happened right in front of the ref. The only penalty that should not have been called was the chop called against Hasselbeck. And even that wasn't called for his tackle but rather for the blocker that he chopped as he was making the tackle. The refs should have talked that one out a bit and said, the guy he was hitting was the ball carrier even if he did also hit a blocker, so pick up the flag. So one bogus penalty call is hardly enough to say the officiating was the "worst" aspect of the game.
Madden and Michaels have to be the worst football announcers on television. At least put some guys in the booth that sound interested in the game. It's like having NPR host the Super Bowl.
The refs were too much a part of the game. They blew the whistle to kill plays that might have benefitted Pittsburgh too quickly as well.
NOPE!!! The Steelers blew the Hawks away and CONGRATULATIONS STEELERS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Did you watch the game? Are you aware the team that ends the game with a higher score is the winner?
Maybe you think Seattle played better at points throughout the game but the simple answer is the Steelers won.
horrible from start to finish.
no they had it given to them, when you win you earn it.
Theisman and the idiots in the booth with him for the Sunday Night ESPN broadcast are worse than Madden and Michaels. And ESPN has the Monday Night game starting next season. You'll we wishing for the good old days of Madden and Michaels soon. Of course MNF hasn't been the same since Cossell and Dandy Don Meredith left.
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