At 12:46 AM 1/12/2003 -0500 Kevin Tarr wrote:
>figured I reply now while I'm drunk.
>
>REFS 2 - steelers and falcons 0
>
>nuf said
Whoa nelly!
First, in regards to the Steelers - I watched the whole game closely and I
did not feel that it was a poorly reffed game. Indeed, I don't recall any
particularly bad calls.
Re: The situation at the end of the game, the refs called the penalty for
"running into the kicker" exactly as the rule is written. This isn't the
NHL where the rules change at the ends of games, especially in the
playoffs. Now, if you want to argue that it is a bad rule, that is fine,
but the refs certainly did their jobs - enforcing the rules exactly as they
are written. As for the second timeout, on the one shot at the replay
that I got to see, it is not clear at all that the Steelers called the
timeout before the ball was snaped. The tried to be cutesy about icing
the kicker, cut it a little too close, and it didn't work. That's life.
If the Steelers want to kno about how they lost the game, how about having
the ball in Tennessee territory with one minute left in a tie game, in the
playoffs, and coming away with zero points. Cowher made the so-called
"safe" and conservative to not go for it on fourth down, and then got not
one, but TWO missed field goals by Tennessee before finally losing the game
on Tennessee's third shot.
Finally, anybody want to be in Dewayne Washington's shoes right now? He
missed a tackle that turned a 5 yard pass into a 30 yard run after the
catch in overtime, and then boneheadedly tried to dive for a block that he
couldn't make, and gave Tennessee its third shot to win the game.
Meanwhile, I have no idea as to what you might be talking about with the
reffing in the Atlanta game. Atlanta ran into, as I noted, the best team
in football, plain and simple. The holding call on Vick's touchdown was a
*great* call, as the holding was not only blatant, but moreover, the hold
was the only reason that Vick got sprung free. Quite simply Atlanta
never scored a touchdown and never forced a turnover. I don't see how
they possibly deserved to win, save for bad reffing.
JDG
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