marty
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Rob I agree with you on the Pats getting away with plenty of contact with DBs in a playoff game against Indy, but Indy still got some calls later in that game and had a chance to win, but Peyton blew it. I didn't see what you saw with the Pat-Rams SB, and in both cases (both matchups) it seemed it was clutch passes late in the game by Brady that won the games (and NOT taking a knee with 38 seconds to go). One of the playoff games against Indy (vs. Pats), where the Pats got away with plenty of contact, might have been a 'sway' in the Pats' favor. But you also can't ignore that when Indy won the SB, with their win over NE, it took quite a bit of calls and non-calls in Indys' favor for them to beat the Pats. It may have been something psychological for Manning that he couldn't beat them, and maybe he would NEVER have beat them in a playoff game if not for some tinkering from the refs. I vividly remember the Packer-Steeler regular season meeting a few years ago. There were plenty of calls against the Pack for PI and holding, but what is even more startling is there were quite a few NON-calls where the Packers SHOULD have been flagged for PI and holding, so much so in the 4th quarter that it almost ended up being THEE reason the Pack came back and won the game. The irony, and perhaps justice being served, the play where Big Ben threw the game winning TD, there was a pretty obvious hold by a Steeler OL on Johnny Jolly. Yes the Packers are known for mugging WRs, but don't give me some mularkey that 'it's football'. Yes it's football, and football has some RULES. It's unfair for one team like the Pack to continually get away with breaking the rules while almost every other team is called tightly on the PI rules. The Pack have a competitive advantage in this area getting non-calls at crucial times with the game on the line. It's not right, and I think the Lombardi darlings are doing a dis-service to Lombardi by playing the game with such disregard for the rules. Maybe the "football Gods" will punish them with another playoff loss where the opposition gets away with something like Arizona did a few years back, mugging Rodgers in OT on the game winning play, or give them a treat like a Moss moon, or something like that in a playoff loss.
< Message edited by marty -- 10/14/2011 9:56:45 PM >
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