Ow… they just tried hitting each other to see who would quit first…. or bleed first. Yeah, we’re all for bloodsport around here…. hopefully we don’t have a hand-smacking competition like last time.
The game gets three stars if only for the picture I took.
Even when’s he’s smiling, he looks like he’s gonna yell at you. The best angry face I’ve ever seen.
Each game, the Steelers come in with eight trick plays. These include end-arounds, halfback options, double-reverses, etc. In the middle of the second quarter, they used their first with great success.
Lining up in the I formation, one of the most flexible of the offensive formations, Ben Roethlisberger, faked the handoff to the half-back who then ran to the right side of the offensive line as the fullback ran to the left all while a wide receiver from the right side ran towards the half-back. The wide receiver got the hand off, followed the fullback’s blocks to the left and got the easy first down.
Unfortunately for the Steelers, the drive ended in an interception.
The trick play doesn’t receive five stars if only because it didn’t result in a huge gain, just a first down.
The Seahawks WR just caught the ball, made a football motion (a turn), and put feet down, as the steelers player hit him and the ball popped loose. Unfortunately the refs blew the whistle for an incomplete pass, blowing the play dead, and unreviewable. In my opinion the refs never get this call right, because on iffy calls like this, both teams should be able to get a reasonable image of what actually happened. The safe call here is to let them play, like in hockey or soccer in a situation like that. when the play is dead, then the team that felt ripped off could officially challenge the play and get a definitive answer. In all reality it didn’t matter in this instance though, as the ball went all the way back to the pittsburgh 10 yard line or thereabouts, and the punt recovery probably gave them better field position.
the blown whistle on the iffy call gets no stars because the only reason for them to call a play like that dead is for the refs to save face and claim their authority on the field. Nobody likes refs though, and power plays like this don’t help their cause. This hurts both teams in the long run, because that really was a fumble, and by letting the play go through they can look at all the evidence, and not just a quickly-viewed, one sided opinion.
Without being disgusting, I can’t imagine that “Brown and Bubbly” is the best tagline for well, anything.
I’ll leave it at that.
One star, if only because part of marketing is getting “the people” to talk about it in any capacity.
Mmm…. mozzarella, prosciutto, and other Italian words I probably can’t spell very well. The Suprimo and Turkey Diablo.
Best sandwiches ever. 1/2 star off for a necessary lack of variety.
One drive, two false starts at the right end of the Steelers’ “O” Line. That’s the sort of thing that makes it so in the 3rd quarter, the commentators say, “The penalties are killing the Steelers.”
We’ll see.
Wasn’t expecting that. Nine Inch Nails during a broadcast of something that isn’t normally vulgar (meaning using any Nine Inch Nails song other than “Closer”); that’s actually rare.
Let’s give the music people at ABC some credit.
Harrison Ford and a bunch of NFL stars read an adapted version of “Oh the Places You’ll Go” by Dr. Seuss. Good Animation, good music, well read, and well edited. Interesting mood to set, a playful tone instead of a competitive one.
The opening gets four stars for being well made, and an interesting and different take on it.