Pro Football is Fixed

83 yards and a FG to go! Could Karma be with the Colts?

Linear

Like I have told you many times before there is a real world outside of "Linearville"---wake up and realize it

Ball Game. Joey Porter was sure able to rotate around the Indy O line.

HOLY FLIPPING COW!!!!

Shades of Jersey Joe Pisarcik

Even the NFL office can't make it happen when you kick the ball like that.

Liquored up kickers.
You're a bit of a conspiracy theorist, are we? This isn't the NBA.
Time to root for the Panthers.

Do you think the referee was looking at the video......or talking to the office.

I was pulling for Indianapolis.........until that call.

Then I was pulling for right to win over wrong.

This game PROVES that you don't have to be very smart to coach a professional football team.

What was the Pittsburgh coach thinking?

All his qb had to do is take 4 knee drops and game over.

Would have been fitting if his POOR DECISION-MAKING would have cost his team the game.

Manning...Once again...meaningless statistics in the big games.

Can you say CHOKE in the big games for the past 5 years?

Poor Indy kicker I guess he'll win the ESPN just shut-up award.....Mike and Mike will be all over it..

On the Polamalu interception - something just aint right there.

The right team won.

Couldnt care less about either of them - but I do not understand the Polamalu play. At worst - he fumbled - and recovered his own fumble.

I dont get that at all.

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Originally posted by BeenthereIL:...Would have been fitting if his POOR DECISION-MAKING would have cost his team the game...

Blaming the coach for giving the ball to The Bus is Monday morning QB'ing......

The next time the QB drops the snap you'll say.....well, why snap it.

The Polamalu "non-interception" was a major screw up.


In a game of this importance - I dont understand how they could let that happen.


Someone - please explain what I am missing.

Thank you.

Not Monday morning quarterbacking at all.

Watched the game and I said: He'll take a knee; and, then, the fumble.

Why did they have to score more points, Linear?

They were up by 3 with the ball on the 3 yard line with a minute and a few seconds to go in the game!

It's

You are right on. There is no explanation for it.

Other than graft. Corruption.

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Originally posted by BeenthereIL:
Not Monday morning quarterbacking at all.

Watched the game and I said: He'll take a knee; and, then, the fumble.

Why did they have to score more points, Linear?

They were up by 3 with the ball on the 3 yard line with a minute and a few seconds to go in the game!

Nice try at changing the subject.

I didn't say they had to try to score.

I said, or insinuated, that giving the ball to the Bus is about as safe a thing as you can do.

Nothing wrong with the decision. Everything wrong with the execution.

Your statement is the equivalent of saying (after you had a car accident on the way to the grocery store) that "I didn't need that milk. Why did I think I did?"

There's nothing wrong with going to the store for milk.

posting mistake.

deleted.

I think that was Bettis's first fumble all year.

A one in a thousand event.

And taking a knee would have done nothing. Indy had several time outs left.

Cowher played to win - and I am glad he did.

IMO.

Carolina's offense should be well rested after last week.

This game is the perfect illustration why it is TABOO to ever open your trap and point fingers at one of your teammates. Remember when Mike VaderJagt (sp) (in Sports Illustrated) called out Peyton Manning for being a choker? Uh...that field goal wasn't even close dude...nice kick...LOSER.

Rough day for the replay officials.

How does a player who hasn't missed a home field goal all year miss by 15 yards in perfect conditions? I could understand 5 to 7 yds at the most. Very questionable???

Linear...You must be drinking the milk you picked up at the store.

Everything WRONG with the decision.

Gave the Colts a chance to tie/win the game.

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Originally posted by BeenthereIL:
This game PROVES that you don't have to be very smart to coach a professional football team.

What was the Pittsburgh coach thinking?

All his qb had to do is take 4 knee drops and game over.
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Indy still had 3 Timeouts


Would have been fitting if his POOR DECISION-MAKING would have cost his team the game.

Manning...Once again...meaningless statistics in the big games.

Can you say CHOKE in the big games for the past 5 years?

Polamula - interception - game over.

No brainer.

Refs kept it alive - dont understand how they could do this with folks in the booth.

Big time game - and no brainer call.

I still dont get it. Hopefully someone will explain the technical part of that call.

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Originally posted by BeenthereIL:
Linear...You must be drinking the milk you picked up at the store.

Everything WRONG with the decision.

Gave the Colts a chance to tie/win the game.

Apparently you don't read well or the facts don't matter to you.

I read very well.

Fact remains: POOR COACHING DECISION.

In the language of Hawaii - Polamalu means -

"drunken referees"

Never knew that.

LOL

Interception - game over - What was the deal on that call?

Never seen anything like that.

He intercepted the ball - rolled over twice - fumbled it - recovered it - and they said - no interception?

What the h*** was that?

Any referees out there who can help with this one?

Personally, I feel that the NFL needs to do some investigating into the officiating in this game. The reversed interception was terrible. However, there was also the pass interference non-call on the bomb to El (and when El was held on flick pass a play or so earlier), and the worst call: When the Colts jumped on D across the line, the officials blew the play dead & then said there was no foul?! In baseball terms, that's the same as a HR hitting the foul pole & instead of ruling it a foul or an HR, the umpire rules it a "do over." Horrendous! As one player (maybe Hines Ward?) said afterward "Las Vegas lost a lot of money today."

Cowher's run call made total sense. You take the knee, Indy takes the time-outs, and Manning gets the ball back with a minute & the chance to win. Bettis hadn't fumbled all year, so he went with percentages.

This doesn't have anything to do w/baseball, so I apologize to contributing to the delinquency...

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Originally posted by pirateradio:
Cowher's run call made total sense. You take the knee, Indy takes the time-outs, and Manning gets the ball back with a minute & the chance to win. Bettis hadn't fumbled all year, so he went with percentages.

Bettis hasn't fumbled in 2 years! The call to run it in was the safest call. IF they kneeled to run the time out, Indy would've used their TO's and forced the Steelers to kick the field goal. Then they're only up by 6 with about a minute to go. Not only do you have the threat of Manning moving the ball down the field but you got a potential for a kick off return. Cowher made the right call.

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Originally posted by Prepster:

Agree 100% Former Ute Steve Smith driving the DBs crazy.

please stop saying its poor coaching

The colts still had 3 timeouts,you take a knee 3 times and kick a field goal you give the colts the ball.Running it with bettis was smart

I am STILL stunned by this game! I was in the air, flying back to Pittsburgh from Orlando during the first half. Pilot kept updating the planeful of anxious Pittsburghers the startling score (14-0! Say WHAT??!), then said maybe we should just keep circling overhead and land after the game concluded, since we were doing so well up in the friendly skies!

Hubby and I RAN to the baggage claim, ripped our luggage off the belt, RAN to the car, and hightailed it to the nearest Quaker Steak and Lube in Pittsburgh on the way home so we could watch the 2nd half in riotous fashion! OMG! I nearly had a stroke! The HIGHS...the LOWS...the HIGHS...the LOWS...the---HE MISSED THE CALL...HE FUMBLED THE BALL...HE MISSED THE KICK!! I have never witnessed anything so insane!

First of all, itsinthegame, you don't get it because it was a completely BOTCHED CALL!! I stayed up listening to analysts and recaps of the game and to an expert, each agreed that it was arguably the WORST call in a big football game ever! That ref should be SHOT (well, at least disciplined)! He DID keep the game alive for Indy...and almost gave me a heart attack.

And Beenthere, with all due respect, you are dead wrong. The Colts had ALL three timeouts left with well over a minute to go. Taking a knee four times would have given the ball back to Manning with TIME LEFT on the clock! You really think Cowher wanted to do that?? And kicking a field goal would have put us up by only six---also with TIME LEFT for the ever-dangerous Manning to work with. NO WAY, BABY! The RIGHT call was made---the EXECUTION by the almost always reliable Bettis was uncharacteristicallly NOT. And no one felt worse than he did!

Game ball to the Colts' kicker for taking Bettis AND the clueless officials OFF the hook!

Steelers to the Super Bowl...WRITE IT DOWN!

(Actually, I think they just won it...everything else is a bonus)!

My only feeling on this season ...


we just need one for the thumb

hit&run...
you're right about the kneeling 3 times and then kicking a fieldgoal aspect, but I don't see the point of kneeling 4 times as a turnover would stop the clock anyways.

I do agree with your call to go for it however.
Not even a second thought

If anyone ever listens to Colin Cowherd on ESPN radio.... is it little wonder that the referee was named Morelli?

OPP

Morelli? Don't give me Morelli. You give me Morelli and I'll give you Salami!

Update:

The NFL APOLOGIZED to the Steelers today for the INCORRECT, BOTCHED, TOTALLY NUTTY (they were more tactful than I) call by Salami...er...Morelli. It is entirely possible he will also be fined. All I have to say is it's a good thing the Steelers won that game!

See, itsinthegame, this is why no one could explain the call to you. It only exists in the warped mind of a clueless official.

UGH!!!