Fucking Steelers And Their Weird Ass Officials.

The BBQ Pit
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What a game. That’s how I’ve decided to start this rant, because that’s all you really can say. What a fucking game.

The Buccaneers vs. The Steelers, an exciting game, but I expected the Bucs to win, of course.

The game starts off like this: the Bucs are getting royally screwed around by the Steelers, doggie style, with fruit-flavored lubrication, and the Steelers are enjoying it. 17-3 all the way through the 4th quarter. Brad Johnson is sacked 10 times throughout the game, which displeases me none because I hate him. He is a horrible quarterback compared to Shaun King and the only reason anyone likes him is because he is a “veteran”. But still, he plays for my team, so I an obligated to support him somewhat.

In the last minute of the game, Brad finally manages to get his head out of his ass and throws a touchdown. Woohoo! Extra point is good, 10-17. Now, the only chance Tampa has of tying the game is if they recover an onside kick, so Gramattica goes for it, and here’s where all the trouble starts.

The kick is perfect, it rolls around at a nice angle and then all the sudden it pops up about 10 feet into the air. The black jerseys clash with the white ones and Brian Kelly, a CB from Tampa, leaps majestically into the air and grabs the ball, then falls on it. After he is on the ground, the ball is stripped by a Pittsburg player who went out of bounds and then came back in.

Under normal circumstances, this would rule the ball dead, and the play over. Tampa Bay wins the ball.

But our glorious officials are on drugs this afternoon, and the call is reversed, 3 times. On the field, it looks as though a referee has motioned towards the Pittsburg end of the field, and a few seconds later another announces that Tampa recovered the ball.

Oh, wait a second, we’re going to review this call, even though there is no reason to and…well, that’s it. There’s no reason to, except that the official that I mentioned before, the one who may have motioned towards the Pittsburg endzone.

I’ll re-state one of my previous paragraphs,

and say that there was nothing questionable about this play at all.

So, with :28 left, and Pittsburg’s posession, they kneel on it to end the game.

This is just one more example of how the Bucs are screwed over at every opportunity by officials from the NFL. I’m sure some of you may remember the NFC Championship against the Rams, in 1999, where the game was ended when a first-down for the Bucs was overturned, the infamous, “a pass is not deemed complete until both of the reciever’s feet have made contact with the ground” ruling. St. Louis went on to win the Super Bowl.

I know ShibbOleth will be in here in just a few moments, and we can whine and gripe together about the whole situation.

I am seriously pissed off about this, we honestly had a good chance at winning this game and then another dumb call goes and fucks it up for us.

As one of the commentators said, “People will be talking about this one for a long time.”

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Um, after the buttstroking the Steelers have gotten over the past few years, I think it’s only fair that they finally get a call to go their way.

Besides, they’re my team. As far as I’m concerned, a win is a win. Which leaves us sitting pretty in first place, by the way. What about you? :stuck_out_tongue:

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HERE WE GO STEELERS HERE WE GO!!!
w00t w00t!!!

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///Drillrod running around the living room, waving his Terrible Towel[sup]tm[/sup] over his head///

Steelers! Steelers! Steelers!

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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense. “Our team has sucked in the past, so this is only fair.” Tons of logic there.
I hate the Steelers. Do you know why? Because you cannot be a passive Steeler’s fan. You either don’t give a flying fuck about them, or you interject inane comments about them at every opportunity.
I forgot to mention in my OP, that the call wasn’t just reversed, the final ruling was that Tampa never had posession of the ball.

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I’d like to point out something that may or may not be obvious to you: Every single post to this thread thus far, except for yours, has been from a Steelers fan. Where are your backers? Oh, I’m sorry, they haven’t shown up yet. Us Steelers fans have pride in our team, good or bad. Three Rivers Stadium was sold out week after week, even when we were 6-10, and Heinz Field is sold out for years to come. How about Raymond James Stadium? Nope. Empty seats abound.

Yep. That’s exactly how it is. And the ultimate irony of your statement above is that when Bettis called the coin toss and got shafted on it, thus costing us the playoffs that year, I’m sure you had your little chuckle, didn’t you? Now it’s my turn to rub it in, so knock off the sour grapes, OK?

Sorry about your luck, but my team is in first and your team is mired in mediocrity right now. Dems da breaks. Too bad, so sad.

Maybe one day you might actually see the Bucs in a Super Bowl. Make sure your grandkids are around to help you into your easy chair that day, or you might miss it.

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I’m sorry that you have a historically better team than I do. La-ti-fuckin-da.

If you’d care to re-read the OP, I mentioned nothing in it about what the Steelers did. But I start a thread about a ruling by an official, and all the fucking Steeler’s fans jump in here to say, “HAha! Too bad for YOU!!! GO STEELERS!”

No, actually I didn’t. Know why? Because I didn’t give a flying fuck about the Steelers, and I still don’t. I said that you cannot be a passive Steelers fan, and that’s why I don’t like them. You’ve gotta be absolutely rabid about them, and I don’t like them enough to be, thank you very much.

I’m sorry, explain the relevance of this statement to the OP to me again? “Oh, you’re right. Because Steelers fans are more prevalent, this makes my thread absolutely unnecessary, thank you for pointing out the flaw in my train of thought.”

I think you may be reading too far into my posts. Sour grapes? Not until your last post did I have sour grapes. This thread was supposed to be about a bad call by officials, need I remind you again, but that totally went down the shitter as soon as 3 of the aforementioned rabid Steelers fans jumped right in to add their mindless
“STEELERS RULE!!! WHOOOOO!!!” kind of posts.
So I appreciate it. You all are taking huge strides to boost the average IQ of this boards.
~TAMPA BAY RULZZZZ!!! YEAH BABY!!!~

::sigh::

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This is silly. I’m here having a little fun at your expense, like we were two people at a bar, and you’re getting pissed at me. You say that Steeler fans are rabid? It is to laugh. I haven’t even sworn at you yet and you’re cussing me out. Furthermore, you thought enough about your team to post this thread.

And about the sour grapes: Read your thread title. “Fucking Steelers And Their Weird Ass Officials.” Well, I respectfully submit that anything I say to you is considerably more intelligent than your prickish thread title. That is about as bitter as it gets- blaming the Steelers for the blown call. And all I was saying in my first post was that the Steelers get shafted, too. So I’m really not inclined to hear about “My Weird Ass Officials”, since they screw me, too.

But enough of all this. You wanna keep talking smack, then let’s go. I’d much rather buy you a beer and talk about how O’Donnell threw the Super Bowl a few years ago, which never fails to invoke a few chuckles at my expense. But hey, whatever you want.

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WHOO HOO, GO STEELERS!!

Hey, I happen to like Brad Johnson.
The refs may or may not have funked up a call. So what. It happens all the time to every team.

I love how this is “one more example of how the Bucs are screwed over at every opportunity by officials from the NFL”.

It’s a vast conspiracy you see. Now that the Buc’s fans have started catching on, we’ll have to rethink our entire strategy of ruining the team so that ultimately, we can move them to Fargo and change their name to the Fargo Fudgepackers, thus igniting a true rivalry with Green Bay.

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Wrong. He caught it in the air, and then before he hit the ground it was stripped. The one reply where you were looking from the angle behind Mark Bruner clearly showed this.

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Well, at least you got one thing right in this thread.

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Okay, Airman Doors, you’re my friend and I like you a lot, so I’m going to say this gently:

Go practice making your cheesesteaks.

And ladyfoxfyre, we know each other passably and I’m a fan of yours, so I’m going to say this gently:

Go do something nice and relaxing that doesn’t involve this thread.

Both of you need to chill the fuck out. However much you weren’t, you need to.

Thank you, and have a nice day.

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Saw the game, saw the call. It’s the bucs…no it’s the steelers…no, it’s the bucs…oh,ok it’s the steelers. I didn’t think that a play in the last two minutes of the game could be reviewed?? For the sake of arguement, the STEELERS would have won regardless of the call. Sack 11?? :smiley:

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Okay.
Deep Breath.
Airman Doors, I’m sorry to snap at you. I agree that this is silly, and I’d rather not be arguing with you on Bucs vs. Steelers, because that’s not what this thread was intended for. You did sound pretty serious, and not “joking like we were talking in a bar” like you say. So, I replied seriously just as I believed you were. Let’s call this a wash, and we can be friends?

soulmurk

Your post is totally irrelevant and unworthy of any merit at all. This was an example of a hyperbole, and if you’d like to refer to my OP, it was in reference to the 1999 NFC Championships. Not a vast conspiracy.
And as for your “I happen to like Brad Johnson” comment, I don’t really care. I think that he is nothing compared to Shaun King, and will definitely not take the team where King has. He is washed-up and talentless. He will be the death of this team.

Every single shot that I saw of the play showed posession by Tampa, then the fall, then the strip. But, if I see a different highlight on SportsCenter tonight, I stand to be corrected.

iampunha
Thanks. I have chilled, and made my amends. I didn’t know that you were any sort of fan of mine, however. But thanks.

croaker67
A play can be reviewed in the last 2 minutes of the game if the challenge is made by the official’s booth, but coaches are powerless after 2:00.
The argument that the Steelers would have won is just that, an argument, but just for kicks, Johnson did throw a TD right before the whole onside-kick mess, and it seemed pretty flawless. He seems to do well under a minute of pressure, right when there’s virtually no time to save a team.
Yes, the 10 sacks thing is bothersome. That’s why I think they should give King another try, the line seems to tighten up around him more than they do around Johnson.

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The one angle I am speaking of, you don’t actually see the strip happen, as there is a body blocking the view, but you do see the loose football before the TB guy hits the ground.

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Aw! Poor Bucs.

You have a .360 winning percentage after 24 years in the NFL.
You finished 1st in your Div. the first 6 years you were in the league.

Pittsburgh had a .307 winning percentage for the first 36 years of their franchise. As recent as 1969, they were 1-13 under the great Chuck Noll. I grew up a Redskin fan(I know–who cares!) but we could always count on one thing in life…the Steelers were the worst team that ever took the field. Somebody was worse than we were.

Take comfort. At least you don’t put your fries on your sandwich. :smiley:

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Hey!

Y’know, insulting our sports teams are one thing. You start moving in on Primanti Brothers, me and you is gonna have some serious issues. :wink:

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Yeah, poor Steelers. How many Super Bowls have they won? 4? That’s gotta suck.
Your stats are interesting, samclem, but I’m talking current stuff here, not at the beginning of the franchise.
And you’re right, at least I don’t put fries on my sandwich. That’s just plain weird.

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Aw, git atta tahn!!! Yinz don’t like dem stiller?

:wink:

We’re from the town with the great football team…
We are the Pittsburgh Steelers…
(Sam Clem-not only has Pittsburgh won FOUR Superbowls, but they were the first to do so, the first to win three-or was it two-in a row, and they fucking ROCKED!!!)
Kiss my Terrible Towel, BABY!!!

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At least you got the tense correct, Guin.

ladyfoxfyre I meant to say the Bucs won their Div. two out of the first six years they played. I know, small comfort.