OT: The Pittsburgher Thread: The Curious Case of Brandon Boykin

[Mischa]

isn't using the football as a prop during a celebration a penalty ?

 

[bambamcam4ever]

And no penalty after punting the ball into the stands. Where's Ogrezilla to tell us there are no fixed games?

 

[Waffle Fries]

How was there no call on kicking the ball into the stands? They are pretty much getting away with everything right now...

I was wondering the same thing.

 

[Smoke]

I wonder if McCarron is still with that smoke show of a woman.

And I was almost positive booting a ball into the crowd was a penalty.

Yes and Yes.

 

[Common Sense]

Why do we keep getting told Blake is a good tackler?

Turns out that when the guy you're covering gets targeted 50 times a game because you suck you're bound to get some big hits.

 

[End of Line]

Blake getting beat: Episode VIII

 

[Shockmaster]

Blake getting beat: Episode VIII

Maybe that can be the title of Star Wars Episode VIII.

 

[JTG]

Mike Tomlin: "He kicked the ball in the ****ing stands."

 

[ColePens]

And a Bengal just threw our guy down after a whistle - no call. What is going on?

 

[ColePens]

HF Boards was down.. and that was a good game to discuss Good ****ing win

 

[djt153]

was the mitchell hit on eifert even dirty?

 

[EvGeno]

Can the steelers still win the division if they win out?

 

[Mischa]

love how half the celebration came after the ref called the penalty.

 

[djt153]

truly excessive, but like so harmless in a game where people are receiving massif head trauma left and right. priorities I guess

 

[Shockmaster]

Can't say I feel sorry for the Bengals losing Dalton.

 

[Ogrezilla]

And no penalty after punting the ball into the stands. Where's Ogrezilla to tell us there are no fixed games?

are you kidding?

You don't really think refs are fixing games right?

#JetFuelCan'tMeltSteelersFans

 

[Beauner]

are you kidding?

You don't really think refs are fixing games right?

#JetFuelCan'tMeltSteelersFans

Yeah there's a difference between actually fixing games and being ****ing stupid. It happens in every sport.

 

[bambamcam4ever]

are you kidding?

You don't really think refs are fixing games right?

#JetFuelCan'tMeltSteelersFans

Because it hasn't been documented in other sports?

 

[bathroomSTAAL]

Didn't the Steelers win this game fairly easily? But it was fixed for the Bengals to win? Oookay.

 

[Smoke]

Didn't the Steelers win this game fairly easily? But it was fixed for the Bengals to win? Oookay.

It was pretty one sided as far as the person foul calls go early in the game. It seemed like each team was being the same amount of stupid, yet the Steelers were really the only ones to get called.

It isn't fixing games it is just the referee's being terrible at their job.

 

[madinsomniac]

Knowing what we do about fixed games, its highly probable that some NFL games will be fixed, but when pro or high end college sports games have been fixed in modern American sports, its always been point shaving, not so much dictating wins or losses... I just think NFL refs have too many judgment calls and since most are fans and none rely on that income, may have real biases for or against some teams....

 

[bambamcam4ever]

Knowing what we do about fixed games, its highly probable that some NFL games will be fixed, but when pro or high end college sports games have been fixed in modern American sports, its always been point shaving, not so much dictating wins or losses... I just think NFL refs have too many judgment calls and since most are fans and none rely on that income, may have real biases for or against some teams....

The NBA scandal was never about point shaving, it was about who the league wanted to win.

 

[Ogrezilla]

Because it hasn't been documented in other sports?

You guys talk about this **** every single week. Why would the league be against the Steelers? It doesn't make any damn sense.

What major sports league has had regular league-wide fixing in the modern era of media coverage? The NBA had one ref, and he got caught.

 

[Ogrezilla]

It isn't fixing games it is just the referee's being terrible at their job.

Yep. Never ascribe to malice that which can be explained by incompetence.

Knowing what we do about fixed games, its highly probable that some NFL games will be fixed, but when pro or high end college sports games have been fixed in modern American sports, its always been point shaving, not so much dictating wins or losses... I just think NFL refs have too many judgment calls and since most are fans and none rely on that income, may have real biases for or against some teams....

Yeah, in any given week I would guess something like 25 fanbases feel that the refs were actively against them.

 

[KIRK]

Didn't the Steelers win this game fairly easily? But it was fixed for the Bengals to win? Oookay.

It was a curiously fixed game.

For some reason, with this defense, the words 'fairly easily' didn't enter my mind until much later than they should have.