Comments on: NFL Refs Admit, “Steelers Got Hosed”

By: NFLfan

NFLfan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 18:46:59 +0000

No. I’m not a Jaguars fan. Way to make baseless assumptions. But anyone with sound intelligence knows the Jaguars were owning you guys the entire game and that late rally comeback was just humoring them. Blame your safety or linebacker or whoever that was for not being able to make a hard hit and possibly stripping the ball, not the refs, especially since your team gets the most favors, bar none. Everyone knows the Seahawks were the real winners of that Super Bowl, btw.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 16:20:51 +0000

And how many Lombardi Trophies do the Jacksonville Jagoffs have, pray tell? Oh, right… None. But hey, you just signed that awesome David Garrard to a $70 million contract so I’m sure one will be coming your way soon. I mean, how can you be denied what with a quarterback who can barely break 100 yards passing in any given game?

By: NFLfan

NFLfan — Sat, 12 Apr 2008 04:11:03 +0000

It’s not like that play mattered, it just sealed a game the Jags were gonna win anyway. Boo fucking hoo. You milltown shitsnackers were spotted a FREE SUPERBOWL WIN largely due to biased and incompetent officiating. You don’t deserve to complain about the referrees ever again. Karma’s a bitch, ain’t it? Have fun being the next Dallas Cowboys and not win another playoff game for a decade or two.

By: Ian - Inside the Iggles

Ian - Inside the Iggles — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 03:07:59 +0000

Yous are just a bunch of cry babies. I watched the game, and the Jaguars where the better team. There might have been holding on the RG, but it was nothing blatant. The defender could have flopped to make it appear like he was held.Besides The Seahawks should probably get an apology letter for getting robbed of the Super Bowl.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 13:25:54 +0000

I don’t see what you are talking about. I watched the video 5 times, and I don’t see any blatant holding. The only thing that even looks close is the Jags RG takes somebody down. It’s hard to tell if that guy was flopping or not because this video quality is not the greatest.Do you know what a hold is? Watch the Jaguars LT ~~blocking~~ holding James Harrison preventing him from getting into the very hole that Garrard ran through. Even if Harrison doesn’t make that tackle without the hold (which, given his track record, he’d have made the tackle), the Jags are at least looking at 4th and 12 with the penalty called, and their offense had been anemic the entire second half.The loss can’t be put on the refs shoulders, Carter missing the tackle at the 30, calling a run play on 3rd and long when a first down was needed to clinch the game, and three interceptions in one quarter are much more the reason than the refs. That non-call certainly contributed though, and it’s pretty obvious that it was the wrong call.

By: Chris

Chris — Sat, 05 Apr 2008 04:07:13 +0000

My mistake. I thought it was understood that "accomplish something" meant get to and/or win the Super Bowl. Winning a Wild Card game and then getting bounced out of the playoffs the next week hardly qualifies as an accomplishment. I will try to be clearer in the future.

By: JC

JC — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 14:48:28 +0000

If it’s such a meaningless statistic, why did you mention it in the post, as if it proves that the Seahawks are an inferior team?

By: Chris

Chris — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 10:03:40 +0000

Then why did the refs concede they blew the call if there was no call to blow? Just to make the Steelers feel better? Because they're nice guys?

Perhaps you should watch the video a 6th time, but this time with your eyes open. Pause it at 53 sec.   Note the right tackle is holding the shoulder pads, an obvious call.   The running back is also dragging his man to the ground in what appears to be dubious fashion but I concede that's iffy.

Then advance to 51/50 sec.   The RG has his hands on the shoulders turning the LB (obvious telltale sign of holding) while the center also looks to be using a handful of jersey to drag down his man.

Hey, goody for the Pigeons having more playoff wins the last 2 years than we do (as meaningless as that is) but the main point here is we are victimized by bad officiating just like everybody else.   And I guarantee nobody at Primanti's would spit in the sandwich of a guy wearing a Jags jersey over it.

By: Ian - Inside the Iggles

Ian - Inside the Iggles — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 03:04:49 +0000

By: JC

JC — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:41:01 +0000

"Of course, the fact that if the Pigeons were really the uncrowned champs, why didn’t they, oh say, accomplish something in the playoffs the last two years seems to escape their caffeine-addled brains."For the record, the Steelers WERE the crowned champs and have less playoff wins in the past 2 years than the "Pigeons". Not a Seattle fan, just sayin’…