Mitzkrieg

heh, touchy touchy aren't we? still haven't cooled off after the loss?
I stated in my first post that I was replaying things from my DVR. I've got the whole game recorded. So don't sit there trying to be all cocky with me because I could show you three bad calls against the Steelers(none that were gamebreaking, but still...) If I wanted to bother wasting time trying to upload it to the computer, then convert it to a small enough format to upload clips to some website so that I could link it to this site, I would. But I'm neither a Steeler or Hawk fan. I really don't care enough to spend that much time on it.

I started this thread based on my opinion that people were over reacting to some bad calls. This is stuff that I've seen almost every game I've watched throughout the season. I mean, there were only a total of 7 penalties called against Seattle. That's really not that many at all. People act like they had 20 and that the game was rigged of all things. Gimme a break!

I'd like to know which 3 calls you think were game changing enough to say that Seattle would have definitely won. I just don't see how someone can honestly believe that 3 calls throughout that particular game would have changed the outcome. How many field goals did Seattle miss? (rhetorical question) and the interception that Matt H. threw that could have been more points for Seattle if he hadn't? the four dropped balls by Jeremy Stevens? what about the poor clock management later in the game? What about the three defensive players they lost to injury during the game? Andre Dyson, Marquand Manuel and Rocky Bernard. Those were big losses I think they couldn't overcome with the backups they put in for them. Seattle just didn't capitalize when they could have, and Pittsburgh did on two huge plays with untested Seattle backups in for injured players.

I'm sure two of the calls you think were game changing were the ones that you think should have been called touchdowns but weren't. The offensinve P.I. in the endzone against Seattle with 2:08 left in the first quarter. Well I'm sorry to say, but that was a legit call. Even if people think it was ticky tack, it was still DEFNITELY a push off. You can see the defender hop backwards a bit because of the push off. The ref did his job. One of the other calls people think was bad was when the ball that was ruled caught out of bounds with 54 seconds left in the first half where his foot hit the pylon. Well after watching it several times over myself from my DVR, I can see his foot touch out of bounds before he hits the pylon.

So being a completely unbiased person in this situation seeing as I'm a fan of neither team with nothing invested in either team money wise, I can honestly say that it's fact that those two calls that people think could have given the Hawks an extra 14 points, were called correctly by the refs. And from what I saw, there were no other calls that would have directly affected the score like the two I mentioned. Anything else is "woulda, coulda, shoulda" and ends in speculation.

I'm sorry, case closed, game over. You'll just have to live with the loss. It's not the end of the world bro. Things like this happen. I was actually kinda routing for Seattle, but oh well.