![]() ![]() ![]() It's equally "ludicrous" to contend that when flags fly on decisive plays this means the officials, rather than the players, are deciding the game. Just for fun, show this picture to Steeler fans. Don't tell me it should be legalized only when your team is trailing in overtime. TMQ thinks it was indeed holding, but has certainly seen the same action before without yellow floating by.Īt any rate, the notion that officials should ignore penalties on game-deciding plays - essentially, that everything becomes legal when the outcome is on the line - is what's "ludicrous." Want to legalize running into the kicker? Start a campaign for that. The Miami holding question is not as open-and-shut. If you made an officiating instructional tape to show what constitutes running into the kicker, you couldn't pick a better play as an exemplar. But Pittsburgh can't argue this, because Washington plowed into Joe Nedney plenty good. ![]() It would be one thing to argue that Dwayne Washington did not run into the kicker or that the Miami defender did not hold the Ohio State receiver - that is, that the calls were wrong. Don't want a flag? Don't break the rules. It's illegal during a scoreless first quarter and it's illegal on the decisive play of overtime. Of course officials shouldn't make bad calls on the final play, but they shouldn't make bad calls in a scoreless first quarter, either. ![]() That flags should not fly on decisive plays numbers among the strangest contentions in sports. Let the boys be the ones who settle the outcome, Hurricane supporters insisted holding shouldn't be called on fourth down in overtime unless it's completely outrageous. Likewise, many Hurricanes and bobbleheads fumed that officials should not have called defensive holding on Ohio State's fourth-down incompletion in overtime that would otherwise have given the University of Miami the national championship. Let the boys be the ones who settle the outcome of games, they said hitting the kicker shouldn't be called in overtime unless it's completely outrageous. Many Steelers and bobbleheads opined afterward that zebras should not make calls that decide games. "For a game to be decided on that call is ludicrous," Pittsburgh coach Bill Cowher fumed after Tennessee missed an overtime field goal but running-into-the-kicker gave the Titans their successful second try. ![]()
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