Pittsburgh's Fraudulent First Down
Posted: Tue Jan 17, 2006 4:46 am
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 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.