we have all heard all about the botched INT call in the steelers/colts game. but i am finally watching my tape of this game and am MIND-BOGGLED as to why people haven't been going crazy about pittsburgh's Fraudulent First Down. you know, the whole "false start" debacle. where the pittsburgh player clearly false started on 4th and inches, drawing the entire colts defense offsides, and no flag was thrown, the play was simply rendered a "do-over" by the refs. they should have been moved 5 yards back, at which point cowher would have punted.
pittsburgh easily converted the inches-to-go on the "do-over", and went on to take nearly FIVE MORE MINUTES off the clock they did not deserve. THAT ENDED THE GAME RIGHT THEN AND THERE. the colts were cheated out of any fair chance to stay in the game. the ensuing INT contraversy is irrelevant, manning would never have been forcing that pass with 10 minutes to go. but he HAD to with 5 minutes to go.
the colts would have had time to score again after the missed FG, if there were still 5 minutes left in the game as there should've been.
i have nothing against pittsburgh, they played a great game and very well may still have won. but the result of this game was completely tainted by this horrible missed call, and the colts got totally shafted.
Pittsburgh's Fraudulent First Down
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ChrisHanburger wrote:Welcome to Marino-land Eli. I hope your line steps aside on the first snap of next season. You deserve it after you threw them under the Bus like that. (He does read this board, doesn't he?)
Uhhh....that would be Peyton you'd need to talk to. And, while ELi is a member, Peyton, to my knowledge, is not. He's got better things to do, like criticize his teammates when he blows a game.

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REDEEMEDSKIN wrote:ChrisHanburger wrote:Welcome to Marino-land Eli. I hope your line steps aside on the first snap of next season. You deserve it after you threw them under the Bus like that. (He does read this board, doesn't he?)
Uhhh....that would be Peyton you'd need to talk to. And, while ELi is a member, Peyton, to my knowledge, is not. He's got better things to do, like criticize his teammates when he blows a game.
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Well you know what I meant...
I don't know if you read (or even heard of) Freakonomics, but the authors have a blog which I happened by today, and noticed a post on this and other bad calls in the game: http://www.freakonomics.com/blog/2006/0 ... n-the-nfl/