why didn't they review the fumble?

[eaglechick]

someone else thinks they shoulda done a booth review of warner's fumble

Officiating dictates Super Bowl XLIII to the unreviewed end - Shutdown Corn... - NFL - Yahoo! Sports

 

[Jetdoc]

I agree...I was screaming at the TV about this, and was flabbergasted that they just decided to end the game with a whimper.

The rest of the officiating wasn't that bad, IMO. I think the roughing the passer call was a bit much, but the rest wasn't too terrible.

 

[Da Bomb]

i definitely thought it should have been reviewed and was a strange ending. not sure if it wouldve changed the outcome, but you never know.

 

[Da Bomb]

and i agree with jetdoc about the officiating. i didnt see it as biased or lopsided, just a sloppy game overall with a lot of chippy mistakes and penalties. the one roughing the passer was a bad call, but thats the only one i remember.

 

[Orgazmo]

i definitely thought it should have been reviewed and was a strange ending. not sure if it wouldve changed the outcome, but you never know.

Maybe not, but the odds of a successful hail mary with Fitz in the endzone have got to go up.

And where was the 15 yards on Holmes for using the ball as a prop after his touchdown? That could've helped the Cards.

My beef with the refs is this... if you're going to call every little thing, rather than "letting the players play", then do it across the board. Don't turn a blind eye when it suits you.

 

[Phicinfan]

Uh, according to what I have heard, they did review it up in the review booth, and upheld the fumble call.

 

[Runnik's Hambones]

I as well thought that play should have been reviewed, but I heard the same thing Phic did. Or at least, one of the people I was watching with said that they heard the booth did review the play.

On a whole, that game was poorly officiated. There were a lot of crap calls.

 

[Mike]

Didn't get to see the game yet, but from listening to the radio after the game, both fans and radio hosts were all pretty well aligned that the Cardinals got screwed over multiple times by the officials.

If that's truly the case, kind of glad I missed it.

 

[The Ram]

Head of officiating reviewed the fumble and validated the call on the field. It was indeed a fumble.

 

[GBG]

Sucked that it was a fumble and the game ended on a soft note. I would have loved to watch Warner hurl a Hail Mary to the endzone ... never know what could have happened.

 

[Orgazmo]

... never know what could have happened.

Fitz would've owned Pitt.. yet again. :koolaid:

 

[Hawks Eye]

I thought that the officiating was a little slanted, not overly so, but I thought there were some pretty sketchy calls. At first, I was upset about the roughing the passer call, but watching the replay, you could see, after initial contact, he extended his arms to push Roethlisberger down. Still a little sketchy, but we did see that.

 

[eaglechick]

usually when there's a review, there's a timeout and they say "official review" and all that crap. it takes a while, and we all see the officials looking and discussing and blah blah blah. in this case, they did a short commercial break and gave the ball to the stillers. i'm not saying it would have changed anything, but it sure didn't look like a review to me. :hmmm:

 

[The Ram]

I thought that the officiating was a little slanted, not overly so, but I thought there were some pretty sketchy calls. At first, I was upset about the roughing the passer call, but watching the replay, you could see, after initial contact, he extended his arms to push Roethlisberger down. Still a little sketchy, but we did see that.

I think the refs tried to let them play but both teams started holding every, stinking, play, so they had to pick and choose which holding penalties to call.

 

[Da Bomb]

Sucked that it was a fumble and the game ended on a soft note. I would have loved to watch Warner hurl a Hail Mary to the endzone ... never know what could have happened.

i agree. i was disappointed to not see the super bowl end on a jump ball and see what superfitz could come up with.

if you thought the crabtree catch in college was big earlier this year, that wouldve been the play of a lifetime if fitz makes it.

 

[eaglechick]

The Officiating Farce that Was Super Bowl XLIII : Sports On My Mind

 

[Orgazmo]

That's what I'm talking about. That celebration penalty would've been huge if the refs weren't busy with the see-no-evil monkey routine.

 

[The Ram]

i agree. i was disappointed to not see the super bowl end on a jump ball and see what superfitz could come up with.

if you thought the crabtree catch in college was big earlier this year, that wouldve been the play of a lifetime if fitz makes it.

After watching that game I'm convinced that the sound effects for the Million Dollar Man played every time Fitz went up for a catch.

 

[eaglechick]

you mean the six-million dollar man?

 

[The Ram]

you mean the six-million dollar man?

Not in a recession year he's not. bvious: