Thursday, February 23, 2006

Day 16 - Fox still game

Good article from John Czarnecki over at FOXSports. He throws in this doozey:

"Seattle was penalized seven times for 70 yards, and three major calls in the game gave Pittsburgh a touchdown, took one away from Seattle and negated a major pass completion that would have given the Seahawsk a first down inside the Pittsburgh five-yard line. Technically, those calls added up to a potential 17-point swing in a 21-10 Pittsburgh win."

Which is, of course, a polite way of saying the refereeing determined the winner. Which, of course, it did.

He adds:

"The league's competition committee will meet this week in Indianapolis to briefly discuss some ways to review officiating overall. But the league is limited in what they can really do. I mean, they're not about to fire all of these officials and start all over."

Dude, we don't want to fire them, we want to firing squad them.

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