Wednesday, February 08, 2006
Okay, I tried putting up an entry earlier in the week and blogger was down for maintenance. It was 10pm EST. You'd think that would be a time that they would want the site up, if at all possible. Makes you wonder if there was a major problem or someone just wasn't thinking. I've seen the behind the scenes workings of a dot-com and the aim was for 99+% uptime so any maintenance would be done such that the site might be slowed down, but it would be running.
I put the EZPass thingy on the Mustang. It doesn't look right. I might make use of the velcro and remove it when I'm not taking the turnpike or crossing one of the bridges.
No more football for the year (unless I end up watching the Pro Bowl). Just wanted to comment briefly on the bad calls that happened during the Super Bowl.
- The touchdown called back for offensive pass interference: it technically was pass interference but it wasn't blatant. It did, however, right in front of the ref. It the same with following the speed limit when driving in front of a cop. You've got to be extra careful. Also, Plexico used to try and get away with the pushoff. Sometimes he got caught and sometimes he didn't. So I can imagine how Seattle fans felt. Let's just say that if the penalty had not been called, alot of Steelers fans would have been saying that it was a missed call, but I think I would have just said that they got away with one and moved on. I don't get too upset either way on the borderline call.
- The Big Ben touchdown: the right response came back from the replay review. It was inconclusive. You couldn't see the whole ball but part of his hand did just barely break the plane but you couldn't tell if any of the ball did. As for the initial call, I would not have a problem with it if the ref came up immediately for a touchdown. In a situation like that where it's a matter of the ball breaking the plane and then being pushed back, the ref should know immediately whether or not it's a touchdown. The ref seemed to change his mind. If the ref didn't explicitly see the ball break the plane and then get pushed out, he made the wrong call.
We'll never know how this affected the game, though. They might have made it on 4th down. It might not have had an affect.
- The Hasselback tackle: I remember a similar call going against the Steelers in a game during the regular season. I don't remember which, but I heard one person say that it was against Jeff Hartings in the Indianapolis game. So it's being called consistantly. Putting that aside, Although he was tackling one guy, he went low on a blocker in the process. Even if he wasn't intending to do it and even though he missed, he still did it. Also, what happened if he hadn't made the tackle, he still forced the blocker to change his path via a illegal method, making it easier for someone else behind him to make the tackle.
- The pass to the 1 yard line being called back for a hold. The cameras always concentrate on the ball. I didn't see any hold, at least nothing worse than on any other play, but you only see the pair of players in question for a limited window. The hold could have happened after the cameras went off of them. Who knows.
People haven't mention the play early where the Seahawk caught the ball, took a few steps, got hit, fumbled, but the play was whistled incomplete before the Steelers could pounce on the ball, so it couldn't be reviewed.
The Steelers lost SBXXX despite outplaying the favorite Cowboys. Nowadays, most people only remember that the Cowboys won and the Steelers lost. Seattle didn't even really outplay the Steelers, atleast not by much. If I can live with the Steelers loss in SBXXX the Seahawk fans can live with the results of SBXL. In the long run, the only thing that will matter will be who ended up with the ring.
I put the EZPass thingy on the Mustang. It doesn't look right. I might make use of the velcro and remove it when I'm not taking the turnpike or crossing one of the bridges.
No more football for the year (unless I end up watching the Pro Bowl). Just wanted to comment briefly on the bad calls that happened during the Super Bowl.
- The touchdown called back for offensive pass interference: it technically was pass interference but it wasn't blatant. It did, however, right in front of the ref. It the same with following the speed limit when driving in front of a cop. You've got to be extra careful. Also, Plexico used to try and get away with the pushoff. Sometimes he got caught and sometimes he didn't. So I can imagine how Seattle fans felt. Let's just say that if the penalty had not been called, alot of Steelers fans would have been saying that it was a missed call, but I think I would have just said that they got away with one and moved on. I don't get too upset either way on the borderline call.
- The Big Ben touchdown: the right response came back from the replay review. It was inconclusive. You couldn't see the whole ball but part of his hand did just barely break the plane but you couldn't tell if any of the ball did. As for the initial call, I would not have a problem with it if the ref came up immediately for a touchdown. In a situation like that where it's a matter of the ball breaking the plane and then being pushed back, the ref should know immediately whether or not it's a touchdown. The ref seemed to change his mind. If the ref didn't explicitly see the ball break the plane and then get pushed out, he made the wrong call.
We'll never know how this affected the game, though. They might have made it on 4th down. It might not have had an affect.
- The Hasselback tackle: I remember a similar call going against the Steelers in a game during the regular season. I don't remember which, but I heard one person say that it was against Jeff Hartings in the Indianapolis game. So it's being called consistantly. Putting that aside, Although he was tackling one guy, he went low on a blocker in the process. Even if he wasn't intending to do it and even though he missed, he still did it. Also, what happened if he hadn't made the tackle, he still forced the blocker to change his path via a illegal method, making it easier for someone else behind him to make the tackle.
- The pass to the 1 yard line being called back for a hold. The cameras always concentrate on the ball. I didn't see any hold, at least nothing worse than on any other play, but you only see the pair of players in question for a limited window. The hold could have happened after the cameras went off of them. Who knows.
People haven't mention the play early where the Seahawk caught the ball, took a few steps, got hit, fumbled, but the play was whistled incomplete before the Steelers could pounce on the ball, so it couldn't be reviewed.
The Steelers lost SBXXX despite outplaying the favorite Cowboys. Nowadays, most people only remember that the Cowboys won and the Steelers lost. Seattle didn't even really outplay the Steelers, atleast not by much. If I can live with the Steelers loss in SBXXX the Seahawk fans can live with the results of SBXL. In the long run, the only thing that will matter will be who ended up with the ring.
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