Oooh Super Bowl Controversy!

I think that pretty much settles it.

I was rooting for Arizona, but you gotta give the man what he’s due; that was an amazing freakin’ catch.

Here’s the blown up of what the zoom was taken from:

So yeah, it looks legit.

It appears that he made a good catch and got both feet in, barely…although I don’t know if he had possesion at the very instant that he tipped both feet in. But what most Cards’ fans here in AZ are talking about is some of the other calls or noncalls that went against AZ. Some of the personal foul calls were borderline at best. And why the RUSH to the next plays instead of reviewing it over and over to make sure of the call on the field?? Like this touchdown in question, and the ball being knocked out of Warner’s hand….forward pass maybe?? I would think in a Super Bowl there would be a long look at plays like that….hell, during the regular season some insignificant plays take 10minutes to look at. What about Holmes using the ball as a prop after that score….Pitt should have been kicking off from their own 15….Cards might have had a damn good shot at getting down field quick….but no call.

I heard Adrian Wilson of the Cards on the local sports show yesterday saying that it is tough when you have to play against more than the 11 other guys on the field. That is coming from a stand up guy who isn’t the type to say those kind of things.

It stinks when there has to be controversy like this. Too bad we can’t just enjoy the players making plays and not have to feel like the league and refs decide important games. I can hardly watch an NBA game anymore because of that crap, and now it’s getting to where I have doubts about the legitimacy of NFL games.

If Santonio had gone to Michigan, he would have been out. But he went to Ohio State, so he was in. :)

I watched every replay when that catch was made, including the slo-mo, but it was a side-angle shot and from the side, it looked solid. He came down with two feet apparently together, apparently they bounced, and then he was out of bounds. Man, I want to see the whole sequence again to see when the possession, to be sure.

This angle changes things…. still an incredible catch and all that, incredible effort even, but without two feet in, there is no TD. And the question is very much alive.

LOL!! Ain’t it the truth!

But being a bitter bastard myself, it gives me a certain amount of vicious pleasure (I think the Germans call it, "schadenfreude") to see that a team other than the Vikings has something controversial to gnaw their bellies for the next 30 years :)