Super Bowl XLIII Running Thread

How about you get yourself a vocabulary that isn't fulltime obscene and maybe we can have a civil conversation?

 

The true story of Roethlisberger's injury is revealed, choco tacos ...

http://kissingsuzykolber.uproxx.com/2009/02/there-can-be-too-much-of-a-choco-thing.html

 

I think I've watched nearly every Steelers game this decade.
I can recall hundreds of times when I was convinced there should have been a penalty called against the Steelers' opponent: pass interference, especially holding against the guy blocking James Harrison, or how about the six different holds that occurred on Garrard's game-breaking run against the Steelers to clinch the 07 divisional playoff?
But the only penalties that were called against the Steelers that I had any problem with, during all of that time, were some iffy, give-em-a-skirt roughing the passer penalties. Because when a penalty is called in the NFL, almost invariably one has been committed. The problem with NFL officials is what they miss, not what they call. That's what makes me chuckle about the controversy from 05. It's laughable that people are still trying to sell this crap 3 years later.

 

If I remember correctly, the only time they were knocked out of the playoffs by the Bills was in '92. I think Frank Reich might have started that game. O'Donnell played like shit that day.

 

Yes, OOP, Reich did start that game. Apologies. They all played like shit. Lousy game. I am not sure they'd have done so much better if they played Moon's Oilers.

The point stands. Your man didn't have to face a team the caliber of the Cowboys in the Super Bowl. That includes the Seahawks, built to make sustained runs but with all their ducks in a row that season.

 

Oh, there is no doubt about that. The Cowboys team the Steelers faced in Super Bowl XXX was better than any of the teams that played in Super Bowl XL or Super Bowl XLIII.

O'Donnell still played like crap in the playoffs that year. He wasn't very good in the AFC Championship against a very average Colts team, either.

 

I have heard at least one serious complaint on that point. Given the source of that complaint, I am very happy to see this thread alive and well.

 

That Colts team had iron balls. Played their asses off.

I would rather NFL Network re-aired the Greatest Games edition of that AFC Championship game than Super Bowl XLIII umpteen times.

 

Minor quibble -- they didn't rush Roethlisberger into the lineup because Maddox was that bad (he did win the starting job that season in training camp). Rather, they rushed Roethlisberger into the lineup when Maddox got hurt during a Week 2 loss to the Ravens. Roethlisberger won all 14 regular season games he started that season, so him not going back to the bench had more to do with his own performance than Maddox's.

 

First, the ball is impossible to make out in that photo, and he clearly isn't down.

Proves nothing.... again.

 

Damn. I missed that. Now that you mention it, they had no plans to play Roethlisberger at all that season. They planned to have him sit behind Maddox and Charlie Batch for a year. Batch blew out his knee before the season Roethlisberger beat out Brian St. Pierre and somebody else for the No. 2 job in pre-season.

 

I was at Drama Queen's first start.