And Gost's FG deemed no good by the replacement refs in September 2012 against the Ravens. My personal favorite in the pits of hatred is Ben Dreith and roughing the passing against Sugar Bear Hamilton, helping the Raiders in 1976.
OPI on Troy Brown, faceguarding call on Hobbs in the 2006 AFCCG. We could probably keep doing this for a while.
Copying the outward appearance of success (Bellichick) without understanding the underlying thought process?
espn: Ben Roethlisberger, QB, Pittsburgh Steelers: Big Ben walked to the locker room with a slight limp after being hit from behind in the second quarter. The team announced he had a left knee injury, but Roethlisberger returned in the second half. After the game, he said he "felt something funny in my knee" and plans to get an MRI on Sunday night.
Actually, they started last week, but the networks usually hold back until towards the end of the season.
I think it's more the 5 now, more punters get good hang time and spin on it so less punts bouncing outside the 5 go through for touchbacks.
You know this is bad, because Big Ben would NEVER EVER EVER EVER overplay an injury.
Ben is such a fucking fraud. Like Favre, he makes sure to make everyone know how much of a warrior he is. Never seen Manning or Brady do that.
There's really no comparison between the pounding those guys take and the pounding BR takes. That's not necessarily a compliment to BR -- he'd be wise to throw the ball away a couple times more per game than he does -- but he has been surprisingly durable considering the hits he's taken.
He's durable. He also has a tough guy reputation that is built on the fact that he/the media makes everyone aware of every injury he gets. Other guys get banged up as well, sometimes even have surgery in the offseason for something that had been bothering them the whole year and you barely hear about it.
More to the point, if you know you're going to go for it, don't waste 3rd down the way they did. Brutal.
Welp. Have to imagine a win Sunday all but clinches a playoff bye.
I'm not counting the Bills out just yet. There's a small possibility they are a 12-win caliber team and the Pats could end with 12 themselves if they lose in Buffalo.
I don't think they have 2009-10 Jets level talent, and that's the baseline of what you need to overcome the inherent inconsistencies of a Rex Ryan team. Very hard to imagine them winning 12 games.
The amount of crazy shit that would have to take place to make this happen is staggering.
