'mad sweeney said:
Pull your head out of the numbers. Ask yourself this: why does GB "deserve" to win or why a win was "stolen" from them when the whole game was terribly reffed? That whole game sucked, even when the refs were doing what they were supposed to (they were explicitly told not to call PI on Hail Marys). GB wasn't robbed, Seattle deserved the win as much as GB did. Whoever got screwed last was going to win that game. Either neither team deserved to win or the losing team would've had it given away. Play with your percentages all you want. Chances were that Seattle would've won if the GB drive was correctly called. It wasn't. The end of the game wasn't either.
Seattle would have been slight favorites to win if the PI hadn't been called. Green Bay was slight favorites after it was called. That PI call represented a swing from slight favorites to slight underdogs, and left the Hawks with 11:30 to rectify the situation. The Fail Mary represented a swing from 100% certain defeat to 100% certain victory, with no time left for Green Bay to redress the situation. I've already demonstrated the differences in win probability- a difference of 6 or 7 times. If you want to make the claim that both teams were screwed equally by the officials, you need to come up with at least 5 more calls equal in impact to the PI. The fact that you can't- that no one can- proves those calls didn't exist. Instead, everyone's left exaggerating the one blown call that went GB's way (under 5 minutes! Tied game! Put them in field goal range!) because it's far too weak of a case to make on its own merits, and everyone knows it. You can't just say "there were blown calls on both sides, so let's all just forget it, klolololol?" The magnitude of the blown calls matters. A blown false start on one side doesn't offset a blown 50 yard PI. A blown PI with almost a quarter left to play does not offset a magic god button that waits until the clock expires and then magically retroactively declares the winner to be the loser.
His point is stupid and an example of over emphasis on numbers. A gift TD is a gift TD no matter when it happens. If you want to complain about one, complain about both. But that's not what happens. GB had the game stolen from them and their gift TD is allowable but the last one isn't due to it being the last play of the game is a ridiculous conclusion.
Wow, you must really not think anything of Seattle's defense if you consider 1st and 10 from the Seattle 39 to be a "Gift TD". The refs didn't give Green Bay the ball in the end zone. The refs didn't give Green Bay the ball in the red zone. The refs barely even gave Green Bay the ball in the 20 yard zone that comes before the red zone. Seattle had 39 more chances to keep Green Bay out of pay dirt, and after they laid down and wet the bed, they still had two more drives to respond to the score. When someone calls first and ten from the THIRTY NINE a "gift TD", it's clear they have no interest in having an impartial and unbiased discussion about the relative merits of the case.