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Post by FredFan7 on Apr 7, 2011 10:52:26 GMT -5
1977, Patriots at Colts. Crew: R81 Silva U15 Morcroft HL65 Kragseth LJ11 Jacob BJ80 Rice FJ55 Musser Silva blew an inadvertent whistle wiping out a Patriot recovery. The Colts ensuing win knocked the Miami Dolphins out of the playoffs. According to my research, this call wouldn't die. The call impacted the playoff chances for many teams. Columnists wasted many trees and tons of ink kvetching about the call. Before the IW, Kragseth called a DPI that looked pretty good, but the Patriots had a big beef. At the end of the clip, a Colt player was kicked out. I think Morcroft gave him the boot. I never noticed it as a young person, but boy, was Enberg a whiner when it came to officiating. Mr. Silva, where ever you are, I'm sorry. bit.ly/dL5ykK |
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Post by cj on Apr 7, 2011 17:53:08 GMT -5
When the leagues merged, didn't they put in the 2 point conversion. Wasn't Baltimore crazy to kick a 1 point XP to go ahead by 6...there really isn't any big difference at that point in the game behind ahead by 5 or 6 but to go ahead by 7......coaches make plenty of mistakes too.
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Post by FredFan7 on Apr 7, 2011 22:15:53 GMT -5
When the leagues merged, didn't they put in the 2 point conversion. Wasn't Baltimore crazy to kick a 1 point XP to go ahead by 6...there really isn't any big difference at that point in the game behind ahead by 5 or 6 but to go ahead by 7......coaches make plenty of mistakes too. Believe it or not, the 2-point conversion didn't some in to the NFL until the mid-1990s (1994 I think). It really added some excitement to the game when they adopted it. |
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Post by cj on Apr 8, 2011 6:39:46 GMT -5
You're right...it should have come in as part of the merger...the AFL was so progressive. Do you realize that until the merger, NFL timed the game the way soccer did namely the official time was kept by the officials and the scoreboard clock wasunofficial? What lunacy...the AFL from the beginning made the scoreboard clock the official clock...they fixed that at the time of the merger..I really, I guess my old age is showing, thought they had made the 2 point conversion at the time of the merger but I guess the purists ruled even in the NFL!
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Post by nyasablue on Apr 9, 2011 7:22:00 GMT -5
1977, Patriots at Colts. Crew: R81 Silva U15 Morcroft HL65 Kragseth LJ11 Jacob BJ80 Rice FJ55 Musser Silva blew an inadvertent whistle wiping out a Patriot recovery. The Colts ensuing win knocked the Miami Dolphins out of the playoffs. According to my research, this call wouldn't die. The call impacted the playoff chances for many teams. Columnists wasted many trees and tons of ink kvetching about the call. Before the IW, Kragseth called a DPI that looked pretty good, but the Patriots had a big beef. At the end of the clip, a Colt player was kicked out. I think Morcroft gave him the boot. I never noticed it as a young person, but boy, was Enberg a whiner when it came to officiating. Mr. Silva, where ever you are, I'm sorry. bit.ly/dL5ykKAnd Enberg is STILL a whiner about officials/umpires today.. |
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Post by fan on Apr 10, 2011 10:33:58 GMT -5
1977, Patriots at Colts. Crew: R81 Silva U15 Morcroft HL65 Kragseth LJ11 Jacob BJ80 Rice FJ55 Musser Silva blew an inadvertent whistle wiping out a Patriot recovery. The Colts ensuing win knocked the Miami Dolphins out of the playoffs. According to my research, this call wouldn't die. The call impacted the playoff chances for many teams. Columnists wasted many trees and tons of ink kvetching about the call. Before the IW, Kragseth called a DPI that looked pretty good, but the Patriots had a big beef. At the end of the clip, a Colt player was kicked out. I think Morcroft gave him the boot. I never noticed it as a young person, but boy, was Enberg a whiner when it came to officiating. Mr. Silva, where ever you are, I'm sorry. bit.ly/dL5ykKAnd Enberg is STILL a whiner about officials/umpires today.. I fail to see how anyone can watch this clip and call him a whiner because he is absolutely right!! |
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Post by FredFan7 on Apr 10, 2011 21:50:14 GMT -5
I agree that an error was made. Enberg continued to harp on it, even saying that the Colts were "getting all the breaks." For a network play-by-play announcer, that is not acceptable.
That was not the first time he did that. There was a big play in the early 90s, I think, involving the Broncos. It was a forward pass downfield that hit the ground which made it a dead ball incomplete pass. The defense recovered the "loose ball" but the officials properly blew it dead, walked off five yards from the spot of the illegal forward pass and the offense kept the ball. Enberg was perplexed by the ruling (thinking it should have been a fumble) and went so far as to say the officials blew it and mis-applied a rule. Jerry Seeman then called the NBC truck to let the announcers know the ruling was actually correct. Bob Trumpy (no friend of officials either) passed that information along to Enberg who said, ON THE AIR, "That sounds like a cover."
In the first edition of instant replay (86-91), a whistle automatically killed the play, even if replay deemed it a fumble. During another game Enberg announced there was a fumble, the the official hit the whistle ruling the runner down. Replay. Referee comes out and says a whistle killed the play, and the offense was awarded the ball at the spot where the play ended. An angry sounding Enberg snorted, "The 'ole blown whistle trick." Uh, Dick, that was the RULE.
Enberg is now doing Padre baseball and can be biased for the home team. Almost every Padre ejection is a huge injustice according to him.
He is and was a great announcer, but sometimes he went completely goofy regarding officiating issues.
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