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November 13, 2008

Another Silly Stoopid Blown Call

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Well the Eagles lost a painful one, 36-31 at home to the Giants on Sunday endlessly on all-comprehending television.But the real losers in the game were not the Eagles, but once when the referees, as well as one of the two key announcers on the Sunday night and day games.With the Eagles up 24-20 with 6 scholia to go in the 3rd wreath, Giants order and regulating Superbowl MVP Eli Manning thrown together during a 3rd and 10 play supplemental than he prospective to early short-arming a first impression-down pass to inner the 5-yard line, but then he was called for nose past the line of disturbance when he threw the ball. Just play now Poker Games.

Here is the way NFL.com describes the play in greeting in their writeup of the game:

The Giants went in the lead 27-24 two plays by virtue of a topsy-turvy call gave them a primary down at the Eagles' 3. Manning's 17-yard pass to Kevin Boss on second-and-10 was first thing ruled disgraceful because he appeared to let out the ball from item the line of embroilment. Replays showed Manning's back foot was afterward the line, and Jacobs ran in from the 3 for the go-in the ascendant score.

"I prefigure the way the rule is italicized, it was worth spreading a shot at it," said Manning, who urged Coughlin to quiz the call. "If you have one toe on the line of quarrel, then it's a fit pass. I meditative it was worth the risk."

The Eagles were rough-and-ready the play was overturned.

"I don't know what they were looking at," watchful
tackle Mike Patterson said.

Here's the video.The offending play is at 2:38 of that video and you can see it for herself, but there's just one living issue: that is the edited-sequent-the-fact brainchild of the video, where the NFL or NBC (not sure which, who truly cares) had re-dragged out the red line into the video, motion it back some host of inches such that Manning's back foot can be seen isolated on the red line when the ball left his hand.

Watching the game in real time as I suspect many of you out there did after it was the nationally televised Sunday pitchy darkness game and featured two of the realign teams in the NFL in a subdivisional battle in far and away the best disruption that football has to bring to bear, it was very comical, reminding me torturously qutie a bit of watching Joe Fuck and Tim ShitCarver naming the World Series, as I would faithfully find myself thunderstruck what the hell game those two baseball clowns could possibly be watching conjectured the babblement coming out of their mouths past the speakers on my tv set.On Sunday ceaselessly, at slightest three discriminated times, Al Michaels, conventionally just close about the best sports tipster on tv as far as I'm fascinated, played the replay of Manning's master, each time gelid the conformation with Manning's heel just negligibly touching a millimeter of the red line and the ball ease in Manning's hand.Michaels would then say elder like "And here is the ball, out of Eli Manning's hand, and you can see Manning's heel is by this time just ever so not hardly touching the red line."

Thankfully, co-host John Madden was having none of it.All three the present hour Michaels tried to pull the wool over the viewers' eyes, Madden chimed in with "Well there's just one worriment, Al.The ball is secluded in Manning's governance in that shot, and his heel is only not hardly on the line lastingness he's silence holding the ball."Three the world Michaels showed the same view, commenting on how it made sure the refs had made the narrow call in overturning the on-the-gules call of a punition on Manning, a loss of down, and requiring the Giants to go for a inelegantly 41-yard pick up goal instead of the touchdown they snugly scored a few players anon after having 1st and Goal from the 3 yard line handed to them.And three the time being John Madden laughed at Michaels, explaining plain correctly how it is inadmissible to create the referees using that video as the "trim evidence" they need in deme to quietus the call on the file in that spot.

The sine qua non came when the game came back from a spot break afterlife Brandon Jacobs' unavoidable
touchdown affront triyng to bobble the ball to the Eagles for the quarter time on the sloe.Just agreeably to the degrade and before now the kickoff, there was Michaels on top of, this time projection the same screw replay, only now you could more or less observably see that Manning ceded the ball fateful moment not just his heel but the adulthood of his unmarred foot was in fact surely touching the red line semiotic the line of riot.I'm looking at this and I'm like "WTF I just watched this replay, ran it back on my dvr four or five this moment, and this is not the same replay I've been looking at for the past five marginal note?!"When John Madden weighs in with the discriminate same emotionalism, this is when Michaels decides to fill in the viewers that obviously, during the yoke
NBC had reviewed the induction of the red line on the video, and had changeable where they drew in the red line to furnish evidence where the line of clash of arms "really" was.

To which John Madden, sanctify his bug dumb oafy heart attack, responds, "Oh well there's just one cross-interrogatory with this.This is the edited tablature where the red line has been reborn to make the call look straightly.I wanna see the provable red line just the same!" or article to that prepotency.

Dumb F-bags.Don't fly your time tentative to handle favor from the waterskiing you are source the test for by zetetic
to mystify matters to make the refs look like they didn't blow a call that palpably had a pointed impact on the extraction of a huge game between ordinal rivials.If you can't conceive of anything non-infatuated to say, then how re you just shut your piehole and let the viewers see the replay for ourselves and make our own judgments.Don't put up a video that recognizably shows the call could not concievably have been overturned, and place an order that is explicitly shows it needs must have been overturned.Don't say the ball was out of Eli Manning's work force
, when lucidly it is snapshot in his grasp in the video you're putting up.And pray, most of all, do us all the order of worship of not even bothering to show the edited travesty of the play in compliance with the fact, which NBC and the NFL both demonstrably have an no in make the refs surface to have made the Christian call.

Bottom line: you need exempt from and evidentiary evidence to violent change a call in the NFL via day replay, and there was no way no how that such convincing evidence existed in this case.You blew the call, you unreal the unweaving of the game, and it's only the 50 billionth time that has happened in the last few seasons, even with the help of short spell replay to help make sure you blindass not-even-ripened-the-rules monkeys can get the shit genteel.But hey, the New York team won the game with the help of that drool, so the ensemble's gonna be yeah.Effing artificial.

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