Monday, September 24, 2007
RANDOM THOUGHTS
All right. Who told the NFL replay officials that a pass that never hits the ground can be called incomplete? If you officials get that call right for the 49ers (as in, call it a completed pass and down inside the Steeler ten-yard line), the texture of the game would have been completely different. Not saying San Francisco would have won, just that it would have been different.
Marcel Marceau died? I hadn't heard. (I'm wondering, though, how many people posted that same joke on the Internet.)
That's twice now that a game-winning field goal has been erased because of a coach's last-nanosecond devious calling of a timeout. Last week, the Raiders were jobbed in overtime by Mike Shanahan (and the do-over kick hit the upright and Denver wound up winning), and this week the Raiders did it to Cleveland, calling a timeout as the Browns were snapping the game-winning field goal. The do-over was blocked, and Oakland won. Screw that. Play fair.
Marcel Marceau died? I hadn't heard. (I'm wondering, though, how many people posted that same joke on the Internet.)
That's twice now that a game-winning field goal has been erased because of a coach's last-nanosecond devious calling of a timeout. Last week, the Raiders were jobbed in overtime by Mike Shanahan (and the do-over kick hit the upright and Denver wound up winning), and this week the Raiders did it to Cleveland, calling a timeout as the Browns were snapping the game-winning field goal. The do-over was blocked, and Oakland won. Screw that. Play fair.
