Monday, February 06, 2006

Super Bowl

I know you've had your fill of the Super Bowl already, the complaining about the officiating, etc. But a lot of you do like to read my opinions so here they are. Officials screw up every game, but very seldom do they actually determine the outcome. Even the Pittsburgh-Colts game, when it seemed like they were trying to, they couldn't give Indy the win. Here's the bad calls:

Darrell Jackson push-off. There's no way any with a brain can watch that play and say it doesn't deserve to be called. Also people complain that it was called late, after the defensive back asked for the call. Watch it again. The referee tried to throw the flag but missed the first time.

Ben Roethlisberger's touchdown. He was in. I think this is clear from the replay. If any part of the ball is over any part of the goal line at any time it's a touchdown.

Sean Locklear holding call. This one was a bad call. But looking at it again, I believe it was Hagans, threw up his arm in a way that made it looked like he was being held. But this flag proves my point. On the very next play the Seahawks allowed a sack that knocked them out of field goal range. Two plays after that Hasselbeck threw a bad interception and got called for a low block penalty (another unfortunate call). Three plays after that Seattle gets duped on a trick play and the game is over.
The way I see it Seattle made three mistakes, the refs made one, maybe two. So why aren't we blaming them? Who did more to lose the game? The ref who made a questionable holding call or the quarterback who held the ball too long and then threw it away.
Why do we expect the refs to be perfect?

Overall impressions:
The Steelers deserved to win even though they played underwhelmingly. During the playoffs they beat 4 of the top 5 teams in the league.
The game of course was disappointing but at least it held our interest.
The Rolling Stones were horrible and there definitely should have been local Detroit acts instead of them.

Now we get ready for March Madness, and spring training.

Sour grapes

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