At 12:25 PM 1/12/2003 -0500, you wrote:
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 saidWhoa 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
So having to ask the ref, over and over, to review a play before he agrees is a good thing in your eyes? Yes the steelers finally got the call, and it went their way, but that doesn't negate them not knowing their job.
How do you know the linebacker didn't tell his back judge that he was going to call a time out? You know how the offense can do that, they trot out after a play with 35 seconds on the clock, the QB says to the ref, "Hey at 4 seconds we are calling the TO'" Maybe the LB was gesturing because he thought the TO was going to be called already?
And you want to talk about holding? One team gets to tackle the defensive line, the other gets lucky in the way it pushes his opponent and he gets flagged? How many penalties before that didn't the cameras show? Instead we watch Reeves yelling and Vick shaking his head. Thanks Fox!
I didn't know that Vick's 30 yard run was against just one player. I thought the iggles had eleven men on the field.
But I posted in drunken anger last night. Thanks for thinking my words meant something.
Kevin T.
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