On the way to a friend's house, I was listening to WFAN, and on the national pregame show they carried, the host asked Fitzgerald about being so close to winning a few years ago, with them losing on the final play when Ben Roethlisberger hit Hines Ward. :lol: And Fitzgerald didn't correct him. The Super Bowl was a fitting way for the season to end, with a blackout and the refs missing a call.
Woody better lie low for a while, Jets are probably going to get 3 prime time games, a Thursday a Monday and a Sunday. I'm guess Jets Dolphins on Monday night, Jets Patriots sunday night, Jets vs NFC south team on thursday night. Knowing woody tho..we'll probably get a 4th primetime game. Considering we have played Buffalo, Miami, and Buffalo again in the last week of the season since the NFL instituted the divisional opponent rule for week 17, we are probably going to play New England in week 17 in 2013. I doubt we are opening up at home 3 years in a row, so we are probably going to be on the road week 1, either @ BUF or @ MIA. Let the schedule speculating begin.
that's from the Harry Douglas "catch" which was upheld his reaction this time was not quite as good. Anyway, if the Ravens give Flacco elite QB money, I think they'll regret it.
it's happened in the NFL before, just not in a Super Bowl temporary power outages, where all the lights went out. But the games were able to be completed as scheduled.
Say what you want, but this loss will break the niners. Seahawks are coming and losing super bowls is the worst loss in sports.
that's absolutely not what happened. Crabtree pushed off because he was held. the defender doesn't hold him, Crabtree just blows right by him and never lays a hand on the defender. so, you want to call the offensive player for his reaction to the hold and completely ignore the defensive hold which came first? if that wasn't the very definition of a defensive hold, the NFL just needs to get rid of the rule altogether. clearly an instance where the ref just didn't want to call it because of the stage.
I will be very surprised if we get more than two primetime games. Nobody wants to see the Jets on national television, it's best we lay low. If we play Week 17 against the Patriots and we somehow do well, that will be a flex-in game. I'm guessing we play the Panthers on Thursday night.
good thing we didn't have those replacement refs to ruin the season when you can have the real refs to ruin the super bowl.
Jim Harbaugh blew this game with the conservative playcalling in the first half (two runs on third and long rather than letting your QB make a play) and putting Kapernick under center for the final three plays. the end of the game calls made absolutely no sense.
The 49ers were only in this game because of that incredibly convenient power outage that came at the perfect time to break the Ravens' momentum, and allow the 49ers extra time to work on the game plan. My friends were all laughing saying it was Alex Smith who pulled the power plug. :lol:
Funny, my friends and I were thinking that Alex Smith was the one 49'er secretly cheering after that kickoff return for a TD.
Well they could, but the punter would just do the same thing again, but the second time there would be even less time on the clock and probably would have ended the game without ever punting.
I think you're right. If the safety originated via penalty, ie intentional grounding or illegal kicking in the endzone, they could decline it, but on a standard safety, I believe that it would be like any other scoring play. Also in the crabtree incident, most of the contact was within 5 yards, then in the endzone they were both kinda pushing each other. Really tough call to make, and I'm happy with non call. I hate when games are decided by penalties, especially a super bowl where they were letting them play physically for most of the game.
Agreed all around. On the non-call, it would be different if the refs called it one way for one team and another way for the other. Or if they had called ticky tack penalties all night, then suddenly changed or vice versa. In this game, they seemed to call it the same way for both teams, and they let both the defenders and the receivers play physical. Ironic thing is that many of us bemoan the fact that in today's NFL, PI is called way too often.
