Porter sez Refs were cheating.....

[Larks]

When they did that, they really want Peyton Manning and these guys to win the Super Bowl. They are just going to straight take it for them. I felt that they were like 'We don't even care if you know we're cheating. We're cheating for them...


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[UFreak]

Not only were they cheating him and his team, but he knows they were "going" to in overtime too!...just because they made one (perceived) bad call during a span of 3 hours!. And we ALL know that making a bad call in a game ONLY means one thing! THEY want the other team to win, and they'll conTINUE to cheat on that teams behalf for as long as it takes!
hhhmmm, what is it they call that kind of thinking?...When a person takes the action of a few (or ONE in this case) and passes charateristics onto ALL that are associated to that ONE person?. Like if I were to pass judegemnt onto an Eskimo person for an action he displayed that I took exception to, and then I passed his deed onto EVERY Eskimo person out there?....what is that called?....

Yeah, Mr Porter, EVERYone loves Peyton Manning (even us Gator fans) and we are ALL out against YOU!!...! What a tool! Maybe its not that EVERYONE loves Mr Manning, but rather that YOU'RE AN A**!...ever think of that JJ? I bet he recruits a lot of fans with this one! Plus, since The Bus was going to fumble his next carry ANYway, isn't it better that he did so at the 2 rather than mid-field?

I'm willing to bet the thin air in Denver is out to get him and his Steeler buddiees too!...everyone knows ALL fans, ref's and eskimo's want the thin air over the Steelers!

[Cowboy]

How about Coach Steel Jaw ALMOST blowing it! YEAH, the Coach!!!
I know the Colts had all 3 T.O.'s. Make Indy use them up!!!!
Take 3 kneel downs and kick a 15 yard field goal if you have to. I know it's the most practical call, but it is a "W"....

Why take a chance on a fumbled exchange or as it turns out Da' Bus losing a valued pasenger????

[Larks]

There is the school of thought out there that pro football has become too fast for officials to make corect calls an acceptable percentage of the time on 50/50 plays.

Having said that, why have replay if they are gonna screw it up! The pick by Polamalu (aka Mr. EVERYWHERE) was as easy of a review call as it gets. On the field, it was ruled a pick so you had to have overwhelming evidence of it being dropped. That was flat out bad.

There were two touch down plays in the Bears Panthers game. In one case, Replay saved them (the fumble into the endzone) and in the other, they cost Carolina a defensive score (The Peppers fumble return to the house)

Thinking back to the First Bengals / Steelers game, that was a very questionable reversal of a called TD on the catch by Johnson. Again, not overwhelming evidence that Chad didnt have a TD. Huge impact on the game.

Not NFL but in the OSU / ND game, the OSU player controlled the ball with two hands over his head, took two steps with the ball over his head....then brought the ball down to tuck it away and fumbled.....ND scored a TD on the fumble. Replay overturned saying incomplete. Yet if that play happened on the sideline with no fumble....and the receiver got just one foot down, they'd have called it a catch.

I think replay training and the rules surrounding catch / no catch and fumble / no fumble needs to be a point of emphasis going into next season. They just can't miss the obvious when they have 37 replays available to make the right call.

Back to school refs!

[Larks]

Update: NFL: Polamalu overturned interception the wrong call

"The definition of a catch -- or in this case an interception -- states that in the process of making a catch a player must maintain possession of the ball after he contacts the ground," Pereira said.

"The rule regarding the performing of an act common to the game applies when there is contact with a defensive player and the ball comes loose, which did not happen here."

More: http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/playoffs05/news/story?id=2294309

[UFreak]

...the P'Malu int overturn was wrong...but it wasn't WRONG because "We all love Peyton"!..and "We all want Indy to win"!...it was JUST the wrong call,...it happens! With replay we don't EXpect it to happen like that, but for him to explain it that way is "K"-rap! I didn't care WHO really won that game, but I'm a Denver fan this week because I want Porter to lose!...and in the ref's defense, P'Malu's hair is everywhere too, not just him!....the hair gets in the way!