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AB, I'm not trying to do that at all. That's why I said it in my OP.It is just hilarious to see some of this stuff happen. It happens every year, I'm sure, but these fans can't seem to accept that the better team won that day.
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Pretty funny stuff, really!The sad thing is that some are taking it seriously!I'm glad to see that many of the comments are taking the petition as seriously as it deserves to be taken.
Considering I thought it was the best job an official crew has done in the big game since I've been watching, yeah there really isn't anything to argue about. Most of the fans who are complaining don't know the rules of football.
I agree. This was a really well officiated game. This was a great game and all the greater because there was no contraversy via the refs. Thats saying a lot in a game of this magnitude- and its not like they were sitting on their flags either, the Pats took some dumb penalties in this game that really killed some drives. I haven't really heard anyone mention that factor with all the hoopla at the end of the game, but a couple less penalties in the first half and I think the Pats may well have put this one away early.Considering I thought it was the best job an official crew has done in the big game since I've been watching, yeah there really isn't anything to argue about. Most of the fans who are complaining don't know the rules of football.
agreed. I didn't notice anything that was a blantant call not called or a call that shouldn't have been called. They stayed out of the way and did an excellent job.
Sign the petiton then!!
Once again it amazes me that there are people out there that don't understand the idea of an official time keeper. There is an official who keeps the time! It has nothing to do with the stadium crew and even less to do with the time on the TV. In the case of Brandon Jacobs first down, they refs called for stoppage so they could determine whether it was a first down or not. The clock continued to run after the head ref called for the stoppage, but obviously the official time keeper stopped his watch.That is why it took so long to get the clock running again. When the official time keeper has a different time than the stadium clock, the ref keeps the play stopped until it is fixed. When he wound his arm to signal the clock to start, it did.
Kid, i've forgotten more football than you're likely to ever learn. Watch the tape- the clock is never corrected. Play is stopped, the clock is stopped, the Giants snap the ball, the clock remains stopped, there is a timeout, a new play starts.. essentially the clock is never corrected and the Giants score with 35 seconds left, Pats run their plays and the game ends at 0 seconds.Watch the tape and you tell me when the clock catches up.
I haven't been accused of being that in a while.I watched the tape. It doesn't matter what the TV clock says. Like I said, there is an official timekeeper. Usually a TV crew has someone in charge of keeping their clock consistent with changes made on the scoreboard in the stadium. That doesn't always occur immediately, which would be the reason that the clock adds 6 seconds after the play started(basically the Fox crew was behind a bit).
I read that petition for about one minute and 40 seconds before my eyes glazed over and I fell asleep in a bowl of corn flakes. What is the point? They wanted more time on the clock when Belichick left the field at the end of the game?
I haven't been accused of being that in a while.I watched the tape. It doesn't matter what the TV clock says. Like I said, there is an official timekeeper. Usually a TV crew has someone in charge of keeping their clock consistent with changes made on the scoreboard in the stadium. That doesn't always occur immediately, which would be the reason that the clock adds 6 seconds after the play started(basically the Fox crew was behind a bit).
Ive seen this happen on several occassions throughout the years. The TV clocks are never official.Thats my question- did the tv clock ever match up with the game clock. The ONLY way it works out is if the TV clock was 35 seconds slow before all the shananigans begin. The bottom line is that with 1:22 seconds left in the game, 1:57 seconds worth of real time elapsed with no play stoppage.
Gotcha. It was early and I missed that comment. This is pretty funny stuff, awesome find.
And yet i've never seen a game end with -35 seconds left on the clock. Its not like soccer where nobody is really sure when the game is going to end. The TV clock reaches 00 and the game ends, so assumedly they should be linked. My point is at no time is there a correction to the TV clock made, except to ADD 6 seconds. This cant be right because not only did the clock not start after Jacobs 1st down, but A WHOLE PLAY went off without the clock running. But watch the entire rest of the game and you will never see 35 seconds suddenly deducted to make up for it. So again, logic dictates that unless Fox was 35 seconds behind BEFORE the mess, the clock was never righted.
It's true. With the technology available these days ordinary folks can now get nearly every frame of every game, enlarge it, etc. to prove their points. On nearly every play there are potential penalties that go uncalled in the playoffs though it's amplified by a factor of 100.
And God forbid the announcer disagrees with the call/non-call on the field - then it's armageddon the next day as millions of sheep take up the "cause."
Are you seriously under the assumption that there was a :35 second mistake,and BB is standing on the sidelines clueless? If there was any coach that would be throwing a tizzy I would think it would be him.
I'd be a lot less happy about my team going 18-0 and then choking in the superbowl......
Again- go prove me wrong. What I assume is immaterial. The FACTS say there is a 35 second discrepency in the game film. Note- this has nothing to do with timekeeping- no matter who is keeping the clock, more time physically ellapsed during play than can be accounted for in the allotted tme for an NFL game, specifically the last 2 minutes. All I can say is go watch the last minute and a half with a stopwatch, there is a 35 second lapse and it has nothing to do with a few seconds here or there for a timeout etc... a running play ended and the clock was not restarted until the end of the next play. The clock was never corrected before the end of the game, and the game ended at 00.
Bill Belichick thinks it ended at :01.
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