From the Strong Report on Seahawks.com:I had a hard time with that tripping penalty they called on me late in the game. I don’t know where it came from. But I just had to learn to realize the deal a long time ago. Until you start winning big, you’re not going to get the calls. You’re going to get phantom calls, crazy calls, and you scratch your head and wonder how they made that call. Then you just re-focus and get back to work. We’ve been going through that here for years. It’s ironic the good teams that play well and win games, just don’t get those calls like we do. Those things miraculously get eliminated for them. But it doesn’t matter, because we can’t change the way it is. We just have to battle through that, and once we establish ourselves as one of the elite teams, some of that stuff will go away.
Its a nice attitude, but I fear he is wrong in saying "once we establish ourselves as one of the elite teams, some of that stuff will go away " because this is Egypt, and that stigma will always be... whatever, once we ourselves as one of the elite teams it won't matter much, the ass that is kicked badly cannot often be unkicked by one or two bad calls. Beat a team by 21, even one "Testeverde TD" won't help them.
ReplyDeletePosted by JoSCh
Well, we won't really know that until we are considered in as an Elite team, will we?
ReplyDeletePosted by alba
Didn't say he is wrong, I said I fear. Quit skimming skimmer. ;-)
ReplyDeletePosted by JoSCh
actually JoSCh, I just created that comment as I'm testing something out on Blogger and needed a comment to see if it was working.
ReplyDeleteI Fear that I shall forever be tagged as a "skimmer" now, which is certainly better than being a "fluffer!"
Posted by alba
fluffy skimmer?
ReplyDeletesee guys? I aint crazy about the refs...its amazing how the NFL is like the government on the X Files...we see things we shouldnt see, and the NFL and media acts like nothing happened...and just calls us paranoid...yet we're left saying, im nto crazy...I know I saw that...im not crazy...
Mack Strong just explained why Philadelphia shouldn't be considered elite; especially if we aren't...Philly has beaten one good team in the last two years...Atlanta in the playoffs, and that could be by experience...they really haven't done anything else but beat up on injury proned teams, young teams, or weak teams...
we'll never get the respect we long for; even if we won the Super Bowl...so its not about respect anymore, its about bringing the media to its knees; and forcing them to KNOW that we are a good team...Super Bowl or not...I dont want their respect...its contaminated with bias
that goes for the officials too...
I tell you, reading some of things I go into on this subject...years from now im gonna have a statue as the revolutionary 'Sonics/Seahawks fan with a chip on his shoulder' (Mariners legitamtely suck)
even my friend who watched the game with me (always calls me paranoid with the refs)...he loves Atlanta (like top 3 of his fav teams)...even he admitted the crap we have to go through...I made a believed outta him...
ReplyDeleteand he especially felt our pain when he experience his Cowboys the ngiht after...he was hurt after that...imagine that happening 5-6 times a year; add the refs; and make the score bigger...he knew that have problems with these refs after that game
if anyone EVER wants an article about recent screwsjobs, I have saved every single screw job game recaps out there in the last couple years
joSCH you're right it may never go away for the Hawks but I totally agree with the main thrust of wha Mack said. It shouldn't be that way, but some teams just always get the calls. I remeber when the Niners were so dominating but many players from other teams said that they were also the dirtiest team in the league, that they cheated like crazy and got away with it. I's true, but it shouldn't be that way.
ReplyDeleteNothing more epitomizes this sentiment than Michael Jordan's last shot in a Bulls uniform. He committed an obviously clear out of Byron Something of the Jazz, and it's been replayed about a MILLION times, yet NOBODY mentions it. If Jordan wasn't Jordan he'd be on the bench for constantly travelling and pushing off.
ReplyDeletePosted by alba
funny you mention Jordan alba. In my mind he is the ULTIMATE example of a great player getting all the calls. He fouled and traveled more than anyone in the league and still got all the calls
ReplyDeletelet alone the flagrant spitting he got away with by having that tongue wagging free all those years!!!
ReplyDeletePosted by alba
Yeah, it's pretty sad on those few occasions when we actually aplaud the officiating for doing a good job. I mean, c'mon, poor officiating just shouldn't be so commonplace for us that we need to cheer when they just don't screw up.
ReplyDeleteBut then again, if a grown man had a habit of pooping in the kitchen sink, it would still be worth celebrating the few occassions that he uses the toilet.
Posted by check
poetic check...worthy of the masthead, but internet decency regulations would prevent it!
ReplyDeletePosted by alba