I suspect this happens often, the favored team at home already getting drilled, an obvious pass intereference, the ref looks the other way, an INT we all know was good, the ref took forever to make up his mind.
Home favorite gettinmg hammered , I think usually the refs will let that team get away with more, not sure if its subconsciously or not.
Home favorite gettinmg hammered , I think usually the refs will let that team get away with more, not sure if its subconsciously or not.
The head official, the ref, definitely wanted to give Indy a second chance, so he corrupted the call. If was so obviously corrupt that the redfaced NFL had to publicly smite him.
Don't blame the referee; he was simply being a good company man, just wasn't thinking clearly. Nowhere near as clever as the infamous Jerry Markbreit, who carried out the corporate agenda in a more subtle manner, and therefore more insidious.
For years, the NFL has used replay, and bad on field calls before replay, to help get a great storyline team into their big end of season showcase game. Not to "fix" a game,nothing so crass.
Posters who state that Pittsburgh or Denver or etc would be great in the SB understand the game on the field, but simply are clueless re the PR game. With the Colts, with Manning (even people who don't know the game know his name, esp with those sappy commercials), with the exciting offense, with the Dungy tragedy.
Even a matron who writes a human interest column for the Hungry Horse Montana Weekly Advertiser could do a SB story with all these juicy storylines. Not so with Steelers, Broncos etc
The NFL has pulled this shit before. They executed a call-reversal to screw over a Dungy-coached Bucs team at century-turn, so as to escort the fab storyline team, the St L Rams, into the corporate biggie. (Remember all that heart-warming - ugh, puke, vomit - stuff about the rags to riches Kurt Warner?)
Brian Billick once accused the league of trying to fuck his Raven team over with bad calls (vs the "new" Browns) so as to have a neat ending to a public morality play, the new heroic franchise vs the nasty grinch Art Modell, who robbed noble Cleveland of their longtime property.
One really good thing abou this Polamalu incident: it may in the future encourage the NFL to issue a directive to all officials, that playoff games must be called strictly by the rules. Because it's far better for two non-glamorous, poor storyline teams to burst into the biggie than to make the corporation and its onfield employees look either like thieves who had a bet on the game, or as a group of complete incompetents.
Don't blame the referee; he was simply being a good company man, just wasn't thinking clearly. Nowhere near as clever as the infamous Jerry Markbreit, who carried out the corporate agenda in a more subtle manner, and therefore more insidious.
For years, the NFL has used replay, and bad on field calls before replay, to help get a great storyline team into their big end of season showcase game. Not to "fix" a game,nothing so crass.
Posters who state that Pittsburgh or Denver or etc would be great in the SB understand the game on the field, but simply are clueless re the PR game. With the Colts, with Manning (even people who don't know the game know his name, esp with those sappy commercials), with the exciting offense, with the Dungy tragedy.
Even a matron who writes a human interest column for the Hungry Horse Montana Weekly Advertiser could do a SB story with all these juicy storylines. Not so with Steelers, Broncos etc
The NFL has pulled this shit before. They executed a call-reversal to screw over a Dungy-coached Bucs team at century-turn, so as to escort the fab storyline team, the St L Rams, into the corporate biggie. (Remember all that heart-warming - ugh, puke, vomit - stuff about the rags to riches Kurt Warner?)
Brian Billick once accused the league of trying to fuck his Raven team over with bad calls (vs the "new" Browns) so as to have a neat ending to a public morality play, the new heroic franchise vs the nasty grinch Art Modell, who robbed noble Cleveland of their longtime property.
One really good thing abou this Polamalu incident: it may in the future encourage the NFL to issue a directive to all officials, that playoff games must be called strictly by the rules. Because it's far better for two non-glamorous, poor storyline teams to burst into the biggie than to make the corporation and its onfield employees look either like thieves who had a bet on the game, or as a group of complete incompetents.
come on guys- there will be plenty of storylines if pittsburgh or denver make it. The media doesnt need the colts to win to have a story they will make one up. Nor does the NFL care who plays in the game. When its the NBA "we" indiana fans think there is a conspiracy agianst our pacers and the major market teams... If the refs really wanted the Colts to win they could have called interfernce on the reggie wayne attempted catch.. I reffed for 7 years and I can guarantee you one thing.. If a ref wanted someone to win they would win... You guys sound like a bunch of "ignorant" joey porters...you think manning is a crybaby -- you guys won and are still thinking the NFL was trying to screw you.....:cryingcry
Ya, it is pretty silly to think the refs wanted Indy.
They were just incompetent, nothing more.
If they wanted Indy it wouldnt have been:
Pitt:
<TABLE class=yspwhitebg cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR class=ysprow2 align=right><TD align=left>PENALTIES 2</TD><TD></TD><TD> </TD></TR><TR class=ysprow1 align=right><TD align=left> Penalty Yards 8</TD><TD></TD><TD>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Indy:
<TABLE class=yspwhitebg cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR class=ysprow2 align=right><TD align=left>PENALTIES 9</TD><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR class=ysprow1 align=right><TD align=left> Penalty Yards 67</TD><TD></TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
They were just incompetent, nothing more.
If they wanted Indy it wouldnt have been:
Pitt:
<TABLE class=yspwhitebg cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR class=ysprow2 align=right><TD align=left>PENALTIES 2</TD><TD></TD><TD> </TD></TR><TR class=ysprow1 align=right><TD align=left> Penalty Yards 8</TD><TD></TD><TD>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
Indy:
<TABLE class=yspwhitebg cellSpacing=0 cellPadding=0 width="100%" border=0><TBODY><TR class=ysprow2 align=right><TD align=left>PENALTIES 9</TD><TD></TD><TD></TD></TR><TR class=ysprow1 align=right><TD align=left> Penalty Yards 67</TD><TD></TD><TD> </TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>
