by Nordic » Sun Jan 10, 2016 9:52 pm
That is the only football game I have watched all season! I was bored and found a great stream of it to watch on my megaphone.
It's funny this would be brought up here, because just when it looked like the Bengals we're going to win, a thought moved into my mind -- "are they really gonna let the Steelers lose this one?"
I am not one to quickly believe that pro sports are fixed. Hell even if you want to throw the game sometimes you can't. The only time I've thought an NFL game was fixed was when at the end of the Super Bowl where Eli Manning had been destroying the Saints all day long, suddenly he started throwing inexplicable interceptions and the Saints actually "won". And that "put Katrina behind us as a nation". Barf.
But yeah this game the other night, suddenly the refs seemed to throw that game for the Steelers. So weird. I didn't even see the foul that caused the ball to be moved another 15 yards closer to the goal line - it seems they kept trying to show a replay of it without success -- the talking heads said he had "pushed a ref" but I sure never saw the evidence of that, and they showed. Few clips that didn't show anything, almost like the replay guys were trying to find footage that would show it but coming up short -- Then suddenly it was a done deal and the Steelers were the victors.
Strange thing indeed.
"He who wounds the ecosphere literally wounds God" -- Philip K. Dick