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I never go into a game worrying about refs. I'm just not one of those guys. I am a bit worried about browner committing penalties at crucial moments tho but that's about it.
Unfortunately I'm convinced there is no way the NFL allows the Patriots to win this game.
I'm very very worried about the refs.... More so than the actual opponent.
I've said it before and I'll say it again..... The winner and sometimes the participants are orchestrated by the league.
Big story lines: brother against brother (49ers, ravens) first African American coach to win a Super Bowl (guaranteed by the fact that both head coaches happened to be African American)
Teams win or get very close after disasters (9/11 2001 pats, Katrina, saints)
And no small market team ever beats a big market team ( aka: follow the T-shirt and DVD money)
Keeping teams from winning 3 SBowls in a row during salary cap era (05 pats, in a very oddly called game in Denver) Keeping a team from going 19-0 in salary cap era (07 pats, in a poorly officiated Super Bowl)
Both of thos Super Bowls were lost to another big market team... Ensuring the best financial outcome for the league, even if they let a big market team lose.
I would be done with this league if I wasn't so in love with the Patriots.
I'm not worried. Read Peter King's MMQB (only the first story) about what Bill Vinovich went through to get where he is on Sunday. I don't think there will be a retaliation factor and I think the refs will let them play (which won't necessarily help us with Seattle's aggressive secondary. They seem to get away with a lot in even regular games).
For the life of me, I can't understand why anyone who actually believes that would keep watching. If you're convinced that the fix is in, go find another sport to watch. And while you're at it, go explain to a Jets fan that the Pats won in 2001 because of 9/11.
I do think the refs will be biased against us on Sunday. Most of the country thinks we're cheaters, and they're people. As a result, I do expect the net effect of the officiating to be that we get hosed. I do not, however, think that the game is fixed. If the Pats are going to win, they're going to have todo so extra convincingly.
So what's the rationale behind this one?
The Katrina one makes no sense. I mean in 2001 you could maybe have a point with 9/11 (though one of the New York teams would have make more sense) but Katrina happened in 2005. The Saints won during the 2009 season. I would not consider that close after a disaster.
As I said in a Previous thread, we're going to have to beat the Seachickens and the zebras to win this game.
It's totally unfair to change the rule 3 days before the biggest game of the year & it would be a much bigger deal to the media if it negatively impacted one of the other 31 teams.Ian Rapoport @RapSheet · 27m27 minutes ago
Pete Carroll says the refs will make a new signal to properly ID a player who isn’t eligible, then is eligible. Seahawks prepping for it
Ian Rapoport @RapSheet
Carroll says the refs will point with two hands at the player in question, explaining whether he’s eligible. “Never done that before.”
Seems "odd" they'd create a new hand signal for the Super Bowl.