***Official Super Bowl XLVIII was FIXED Thread***

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

It was fixed

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

James Harrison should be getting fined.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/2/14646/04636/676/691903

Kurt Warner: "God Is To Blame For This Loss"
Sun Feb 01, 2009 at 11:05:36 PM PST

Tampa, FL (KE) -- Kurt Warner, the 37-year-old veteran quarterback for the Arizona Cardinals, seemed to blame the Christian God for the team's heartbreaking loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers in Sunday night's Superbowl XLIII. Speaking to a pool of gathered reporters outside the team's locker room, Warner stated, "I always credit God for my victories and earlier this week I said I had an advantage in tonight's game because of the power of Jesus. Clearly, however, Jesus let me down. And so I am not responsible for tonight's loss. If you want someone to blame, this one is 100% on the man upstairs."

For a while, it appeared that God would give the Cardinals their first Superbowl win in franchise history. But with time running out at the end of the second half, the Steelers, trailing by a field goal, managed to score the game-winning touchdown.

"Did you see the way that Santonio Holmes came down with that ball?" Warner asked sports reporters incredulously after the Superbowl. "Both his feet touched the inside of the endzone before he went flying out of bounds. You can clearly tell that invisible angels pushed his toes into the turf to give him that touchdown completion. Clearly, God made us lose."

God's abandonment of Kurt Warner and the Arizona Cardinals was foreshadowed at the end of the first half, when Warner attempted a touchdown pass from the Steelers' one yard line, which was intercepted by Harrison and run back for a 100-yeard interception return and a touchdown. "That's really when I started to suspect that God and Jesus had forsaken me," Warner admits. "I walked in the faith of Jesus Christ, my Lord and Savior. And how does he repay me? By feeding the ****ing ball to Harrison and turning a Cardinal touchdown into a Steeler touchdown like it was water turning into wine."

Warner is also quick to notice that if that play had not been intercepted, the Cardinals would have won by ten points instead of losing by four. "God cost us the Superbowl," Warner stated, matter-of-factly. "It's as simple as that."

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/2/2/14646/04636/676/691903

omg...

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

i don't think thats a credible source...

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

ofcourse not, it's a joke. I thought it was funny.

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

ofcourse not, it's a joke. I thought it was funny.

I didn't know, lol i'm easily duped by the man

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

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[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Officiating-dictates-Super-Bowl-XLIII-to-the-non;_ylt=Au3r2xesRT7bjVeDQZ8Dj1M5nYcB?urn=nfl,138123

t will go down as one of the most thrilling Super Bowls of all time. But, as has become all too common in the NFL, an officiating controversy threatens to overshadow the stellar play on the field.
On the final Cardinals play from scrimmage, as the team was driving for a potential game-winning score, Kurt Warner turned over the ball after his arm was hit by LaMarr Woodley. The play was ruled a fumble, and it may have been. Or it may have been an incomplete pass. The problem is, there was no official replay review to take a closer look at the ruling. Instead, the Steelers got the ball, knelt down for the win and earned the sixth title in franchise history.

Frankly, it's remarkable that there was no booth challenge to review the play. It was certainly close enough to warrant a look from upstairs. In all probability, the call on the field would have been confirmed. But why not appease the masses and nip any talk of controversy in the bud? (If the call had been overturned, Arizona would have had the ball on the Pittsburgh 29-yard line, certainly close enough to have had a reasonable shot at scoring a last-second touchdown.)

It was a night marred by questionable calls, but the game managed to make everyone forget about the disparity in penalties (106 yards for the Cardinals against just 56 for the Steelers) with its thrilling finish. And then came the unreviewed call. It's especially interesting that the play went without a second look considering the Cardinals correctly challenged two plays during the game (both of which should have been easy calls on the field but were botched by the refs).

The 11 penalties whistled on Arizona included a preposterous roughing the passer penalty on a play that wouldn't have been uncommon in touch football. That came on a drive that saw two personal foul penalties on the Cards, one of which gave the Steelers another chance to score from the goal line. For the evening, 18 penalties were called, the third-most in Super Bowl history. A missed call may have proven enormous also. After Santonio Holmes' game-winning touchdown catch he did an imitation of LeBron James' chalk move. Using the ball as a prop is an automatic 15-yard penalty on the kickoff.

Officiating controversies became way too prevalent in this league this season. Ed Hochuli's premature whistle dominated headlines in the early season and a missed delay of game penalty in the divisional playoffs aided in a Baltimore Ravens win. It's too bad a great Super Bowl followed down that path and may be marred by a decision that would have been easily remedied by a simple booth review.

 

[DBfan187 5,000+ posts]

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.gif of James Harrison punching & pushing the Cardinal's defender.

 

[99grandprixGT 5,000+ posts]

ya that was some BS. mabye they will fine him

 

[TurdFergueson2 5,000+ posts]

Just so much hate in the room. That was one of the best games I ever saw PERIOD. Not as good as the Giants, but right up there.

Maybe Harrison should have been thrown out, but maybe all the refs saw was the push. I don't think that the personal foul on I believe that was Ike Taylor was justified. I didn't see that much holding on the safety either. I give Arizona a lot of credit. They played their ***** off.

 

[bunkerking09 10+ year member]

http://sports.yahoo.com/nfl/blog/shutdown_corner/post/Officiating-dictates-Super-Bowl-XLIII-to-the-non;_ylt=Au3r2xesRT7bjVeDQZ8Dj1M5nYcB?urn=nfl,138123

QFT

 

[bose301s 5,000+ posts]

He held him. You've got to either be retarded or extremely biased to not realize it was a hold. Dude grabbed his jersey, and took him to the ground with him. It's a hold.

It was a very questionable call. Warner took a nice shot later in the game after he released it, no call on that one. Ben got pushed after he released and they got flagged, was a pretty crappy call to make in a Super Bowl.

I agree, the call on the hit to Roethlisberger was questionable, however the other 2 calls on that drive were not.