- February 10th, 2006, 8:40 am
#3596
I hate it when folks dilute a championship. It bothered me when San Antonio won their first championship in the strike shortened season and it bothers me about the Steelers now. I don't even like the Steelers but to say their championship is tainted is just wrong. They won the game. The officiating was horrible and it was mostly against Seattle (No conspiracy here just bad breaks). The Steelers outplayed the Seahawks, scored more points and are the Champs. We should let it go and congratulate the Steelers. If anyone had a gripe about the officiating this playoff season it was the Steelers in that Indianapolis game. They almost got robbed of a chance to win the championship. But if the Colts had won that game and went on to win the Superbowl, I wouldn't try to diminish their championship. Officiating is part of the game and sometimes you end up on the bad end of a bad call or two. To give you a quick basketball story about Liberty (is this too off topic? I don't want to get this puppy closed down like the old mill in Pittsburgh 
). #25 Eastern Michigan led by Earl Boykins played us in Hawaii and with 2 seconds left they broke a tie on a basket that looked to be the game winner. We draw up the Laetner play but instead of Laetner (Aluma) catching the ball, he lets it go behind him where Larry Jackson is waiting to catch for a quick foul line jumper to tie. Well Aluma catches the ball about 23 feet from the basket, turns, fires and makes a game winning 3 pointer.....Wait, the clock showed 0:00 and the horn sounded before the shot is released. You might ask why did it take so long for a catch and shoot. We know you can do that in 1 second so 2 seconds is more than enough time right? Well the clock keeper started the clock while the ball was in the air before anyone had touched it and it cost us the game vs a top 25 opponent. RedDog should remember that one well and Jones too (although he was not there but was on staff at the time). My point is that sports are not perfect, they are governed by men and men make mistakes. Pittsburgh was the better team on Sunday and deserve to be world champs...Another side story was when we got to Hawaii I had an actual Seinfeld moment with the rentals. There were no vehicles on the whole island to be rented even though I had reservations. "They know how to TAKE the reservation, they just don't know how to HOLD the reservation...."
). #25 Eastern Michigan led by Earl Boykins played us in Hawaii and with 2 seconds left they broke a tie on a basket that looked to be the game winner. We draw up the Laetner play but instead of Laetner (Aluma) catching the ball, he lets it go behind him where Larry Jackson is waiting to catch for a quick foul line jumper to tie. Well Aluma catches the ball about 23 feet from the basket, turns, fires and makes a game winning 3 pointer.....Wait, the clock showed 0:00 and the horn sounded before the shot is released. You might ask why did it take so long for a catch and shoot. We know you can do that in 1 second so 2 seconds is more than enough time right? Well the clock keeper started the clock while the ball was in the air before anyone had touched it and it cost us the game vs a top 25 opponent. RedDog should remember that one well and Jones too (although he was not there but was on staff at the time). My point is that sports are not perfect, they are governed by men and men make mistakes. Pittsburgh was the better team on Sunday and deserve to be world champs...Another side story was when we got to Hawaii I had an actual Seinfeld moment with the rentals. There were no vehicles on the whole island to be rented even though I had reservations. "They know how to TAKE the reservation, they just don't know how to HOLD the reservation...."
i feel just fine about the win and the the geeks at the elias sports bureau will not put an asterisk beside it, but they will for the horns BCS win.
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