I have now seen the two worst unnecessary roughness calls and the dumbest taunting call in this game, and I only wonder- why don’t we just play flag football?
Total bullshit.
The NFL officiating continues its downward trend.
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Rob
I agree with the unnecessary roughness, if he didn’t throw him down, he might have kept running. (and I live in dayton)
But I am going to have to disagree with you on the taunting.
gorillagogo
Agreed. The first penalty was at least arguable since the guys were out of bounds, but the reason it happened was because Joey Porter hit his own guy in the back (was it Chris Hope?), who then fell into the receiver out of bounds. The second one was total garbage — basically a fifteen yard penalty for tackling a guy with the ball. Like Bill Hillgrove said, when do they start putting skirts on these guys?
Regardless, looks like the Steelers are asserting control. I expect a steady diet of the Bus from here on out.
Tim F
Back in the early 90’s it seemed like the Steelers had a knack for fighting 4/5ths of the way through a great game and then falling apart. See Chargers, Playoffs.
By contrast today’s Steelers seem to have a knack for a truly miserable first drive or two followed by a truly great game. The first-quarter Steelers and the third-quarter Steelers seemed like different teams.
Bob In Pacifica
Meanwhile, the Niners are well on their way to Reggie Bush.
Vladi G
Umm, John, I’m not sure you really ought to be complaining about bad calls.
Oberon
Thank God for the XFL.
Oh, wait.
Mac
Seahawks are for real!
Ezert
The taunting was crap too. On Cincy’s next posession one of their receivers caught a first down and spiked the ball and did about the exact same thing Ward did. Of course, no flag.
And unnecessary roughness on a tackle? Holy God.
don surber
Vladi G
Hey, we bought those officials fair and square
Oops
Did I say that outloud?
Joe T.
Hey John, obviously you didn’t see the Penguins game last night. You wanna talk about bad calls? How about phantom calls? Everytime someone falls on the ice, it’s a penalty. You see more asses on the ground during women’s college games.
MMM
If we only had instant replay for the Immaculate “Reception”….
don surber
Mountaineers beating of, er, game with USF was cancelled. Still, how about THESE undefeated ‘Eers?
4668-4551 Woo! Hoo!
Mark
Whatever the NFL refs are doing, they cannot possibly be worse than what goes for umpiring in the baseball playoffs.
Veeshir
I’m pretty sure the ref for the Giant’s game yesterday was drunk. He got a bunch of calls very wrong.
“Holding, offense, number 61. 10-yard pen…” (other official runs up)
“Holding, defense, number 61. 5-yard penalty.”
“Pass intereference, defense. The penalty is declined the result of the play is first down.” “psssssst”
“correction, the penalty will be accepted, the pass was intercepted.”
There were a bunch more. He just kept getting the calls wrong.
And there was some really bad officiating on the calls they meant to make. Burress got away with murder and they called the defender on half the plays where Burress pushed off.
At least they got the final score right.
Faux News
It’s all Hillary Clinton’s fault.
jkis
MMM Says:
If we only had instant replay for the Immaculate “Reception”….
October 23rd, 2005 at 9:46 pm
There was istant replay for the Immaculate Reception. It took the officials about 20 minutes to declare it a touchdown.
jg
So I’m at the Cardinals/Titans game yesterday. what an awful display of ‘football’. The best part was the local youth flag football games at halftime. Funny how the Bidwills have the balls to put a better football product on the field at halftime.
MunDane
I am that Halliburton subcontractors supplied the refs and on the orders of Karl Rove through his Rovebots Chimpy McBushitler and Karl Von Rovenstein cause the ref to hurt the team that plays on the Mrs John Kerry field.
See it all makes sense when you put on a tinfoil hat.