The BS rule is because of your little crying golden boy back there behind center, Lord forbid he would have to take a hit in a football game or even get touched for that matter. I would have laughed too if I was Brady and got that call after jumping up and down like a little girl so the flag would come out.
... yeah, it couldn't last. A couple of the Ravens fans are cool, but it looks like a couple of you just can't handle a loss. Clear which category you fall into.
And if you think that King is a Pats' homer, then you haven't been paying attention for the past 3+ years. If you think Brady gets every call, then go watch the Bills/Pats and Jets/Pats games- you know, the games with the two teams that were actually able to get pressure. They hit Brady hard and often and weren't penalized for it because they were (novel concept, but here it comes...)
legal hits. They didn't have to resort to diving at Brady's knees long after he threw the ball, which would have been a potentially career-ending injury if it wasn't
so late that Brady had time to look down, see him coming, and jump out of the way. Don't blame the Pats for your team's inability to get a grip on itself and execute when it counts.
The Ravens are far and away the 'best' in the league at whining after the fact and blaming everyone but themselves for a loss, which is why I'm actually confident, as of today, that they
won't come anywhere near a super bowl for at least another year. The Jets, Steelers, and Colts are all looking like much more legitimate threats, if this is how we can expect the Ravens to handle a loss. It seemed like Harbaugh had brought some accountability to the team, but looks like that wasn't the case, and now the Ravens have "will collapse under the first sign of adversity" written all over them.
If you want to know why it's getting covered this morning, it's because the Ravens talked about it. If a team gives the media something to write about, they'll write the hell out of it. There's no story angle that the media won't beat to death, and when a team actually gives them quotes, that just makes their job even easier (as opposed to the rest of the time, when they just make **** up or recycle the same Owens/Favre/Tomlinson storyline again).
If the Pats accused the Ravens of trying to infect them with the swine flu for a competitive advantage, that would be dominating the airwaves today. Still wouldn't make it true, which is why it's so dumb that you're claiming this as some kind of proof of legitimacy. Why don't you hear about the Patriots getting jobbed in week 1, even though they got screwed far more egregiously, to the point that the MNF announcers were openly calling it out? Because the Pats don't talk about it after the game. They don't let blame fall anywhere else. They didn't in the 2006 AFCCG, when the refs screwed up a game-changing PI call on Ellis Hobbs so badly that the league wrote him a letter of apology. That call essentially ended the Pats' season, but they still held themselves accountable for the loss. If they had made plays, it wouldn't have mattered, so it was their fault.
If the team doesn't hype it up after the fact, it just isn't a story. And the Pats, who have seen as many good calls and bad calls as anyone else, just don't talk about it. Belichick won't let them- he'll tell them what the ref's tendencies are and how to play to them, but knowing that it's 100% their responsibility to go out, execute, and win the game. If they don't, it falls on them- end of story. If you want to know what separates teams like the Pats from teams like the Ravens, that's a huge part of it.
Next time you hear the Pats, Steelers, Giants or Colts publicly dwell on the officiating after a loss will be the first. Coincidentally, they've won 7 of the last 8 Super Bowls. The Ravens, on the other hand, should spend less time worrying about whether correctly called rules should exist, and more time figuring out why they're surrendering 25 PPG to their three non-Browns (the worst team in the league) opponents.
