pushaway
So Pittsburgh won. Which wasn’t totally unexpected, but the number of bad calls made by the referees in that game was shocking. All in the Steelers’ favour, mind you.
In the first half alone, there was the disallowed TD (pushaway ? Err.. what ?) and then the Roffleburger Roethlisberger “TD” which was stopped just short of the line… Man, the list goes on. On the plus side, Hasselbeck played better than I ever expected (I was thinking that that it would be a Pitts offensive line vs the Seahawks defense game). To give credit where it’s due, Roethlisberger made some nice moves to disrupt the Seahawks defense, so the scoreline wasn’t entirely unfair. And I might as well update with a note on the number of weirdass penalties that the Seahawks got… a 34 yard punt return, brought back to the 20 yard line… Hasselbeck called for an illegal block ? Aargh.
So much for the Superbowl. In other news, Scotland tripped up the French. I would have been more shocked at this result than the Superbowl, except that the French rarely played like they deserved a win – I lost count of the number of knockons after it hit 7. The French kept trying that silly little inside pass which always ran into a wall of Scottish forwards – and the one time that they actually went for a long pass into the wing, they scored a try. In short, the French passing sorta sucked.
And to cap it all off, Dennis Bergkamp points out the obvious. Not that I saw Bergkamp putting his hand up over the last few games he played, but a valid point nonetheless.
On 06-Feb-06 at 11:42 pm,
spizkapa wrote:
Didn’t have you down as a sport fan drac, my man. Now, if only Warcraft required more exercise, you’d be a proper athlete!
On 07-Feb-06 at 3:22 am,
elric wrote:
[ obligatory arsenal hate message ] I see the apologists for the Arse are already scurrying to the rescue after one good performance http://football.guardian.co.uk/Columnists/Column/0,,1703812,00.html
A tad harsh I know but still…of course at the rate I’ve been spewing the bile no doubt they’ll end up winning the BIG cup or something.
On 07-Feb-06 at 10:11 am,
drac wrote:
spizkapa: Even if War3 required exercise, I’d still fall far short. Those who can’t, watch TV and play armchair quarterback
That’s me.
elric: They have nothing more left to play for this season and it doesn’t seem like they’ll do a whole lot better in the next either – unless Theo Walcott and co get on with things. I’m rather shocked at how swiftly they fell. In perspective, they only lost Viera. (Walcott might actually play in the next few matches. Now that would be fun to see)
On 07-Feb-06 at 10:56 am,
elric wrote:
Well I suppose you could say they lost Ashley Cole too. But you’re right, the way some of the other senior players have failed to pick up the slack is shocking. For that matter for the latter third of the seaon United have lost – Keane/ Scholes/ Giggs. Heinze been missing for most of the season as well. As a Utd fan I have to say, this is about the worst we can play; you could hardly do worse than a midfield of A. Smith and K. Richardson and we’re still second. I wonder what that says about the quality of the rest of the Premier league though.