The national media is flustered by all this

[mldardy]

I have a cousin that is a Steelers fan. I swear he can't stop talking about us and that call. He talks about the Cowboys ten times more than he does the Steelers? People hate us more than they love their own team..He's about to get Deleted on Facebook. Sent me a pic of a referee on a boat with a star on the side drinking a glass of wine. Even though its a game you can cross the line....

Stealers fan LOL. Those ****ers shouldn't be complaining about anything as much as they've gotten away.

 

[erod]

Hyperbole.

Have heard many people defend the no call.

Have seen many people talk about how the Lions didn't make enough plays.

Romo hasn't been ignored all season as he's in the MVP conversation and made the pro bowl.

Murray has been showered heaps of praise.

People talk about Witten in hushed tones of respect.

The defense has been praised for working hard and being better than expected.

People make googly eyes at our offensive line.

We had the most all pros. Including a historic Martin selection.

Dez is doing interviews before playoff games.

Jerry freaking Jones is getting consideration for executive of the year.

People want to poach the lawyers of Rod Scott and Will.

But please by all means pretend that it's us against the world. Which directly contradicts the idea we are America's Team.

Thanks for pointing out the 2 percent of this week's coverage. Have you turned on your radio or TV since Sunday? I'll bet I've seen this play more than 1,000 times already.

I was in Buffalo Wild Wings, and it was on every screen ten times. And they have about 12 channels going.

 

[Fletch]

Denial. Projection. Deflection. Anything to avoid reflection.

The national media is in a tizzy, tilting dangerously toward a complete psychotic meltdown. It's sad to watch really. It looks desperate and hopeless in an "I-want-my-mommy" kind of way.

Has ever an official's call against a team leading a football game with nine minutes left ever been so cynically analyzed and questioned?

Has an owner's celebrity guest ever been so scrutinized?

Has a quarterback's tremendous play and results ever been so downplayed, qualified, and categorically diminished? Same for the entire season of an NFL defense, for that matter?

Sometimes you're just wrong. It happens. But don't hold your breath for that admission from the nerdy networks.

What's left is a frothing northeastern media in full-on attack mode against a team it unapologetically detests because of too many years of living amongst a throe of Cowboy fandom that has fracked its way into unlikely crevices across the nation.

Remember August, when the cackles and laughs at Cowboy expense were such joyful times for the clueless know-it-alls, who were giddy to gang up for a five-month daily bludgeoning of Dallas fans. We heard 7-9, then 6-10, then braver souls sticking their necks out at 5-11 and worse. It was going to be so gloriously awful.

But now this.....this just can't be right.

My favorite explanation lately is how Dallas has "benefitted from an easy schedule." Huh? I thought this gauntlet of a schedule was the reason Dallas had no chance at breaking through the 8-8 barrier in the first place. I thought there weren't eight winnable games on the schedule even if Dallas played to its potential?

What really gut-punched the media was the impossibly unexpected waltz through December, which Dallas had to - it appeared at the time - win out to get in the playoffs. Not a chance that Dallas catches Philly, they thought. And then, to make it hurt deeper, the Eagles faltered, and the damn Cowboys decided to go ahead and win out anyway. Stick that up your Twitter.

So much is at stake for the media right now. The validation of Tony Romo. Oh my God. The acknowledgement of Jason Garrett. I need to have a seat. The rise of THAT young team with a promising future. This just can't be happening. Wake me now, please.

The media has acted all week like a cornered animal, rabid to poo-poo everything at every turn. The refs cheated. Blandino in the party bus. Christie in the owners' box. Conspiracies abound. The list will grow long if Dallas keeps winning.

Now imagine if you will....successive wins at frozen Lambeau and a second triumph at that hornet's nest in Seattle. That's about as tough a road travelled to the Super Bowl as ever taken.

How could they possibly spin that? How to minimize it and explain it away?

They can't, and they know it. The blowhards are imploding. Let's watch.

Thank you erod! Best post of the year by a landslide!

 

[dsudawg06]

I live in the Greater Philadelphia area, and Eagles fans are still calling in and whining about it. They're shaking in their boots and can't handle that they have to watch the Cowboys another week in the playoffs. What are they going to do if the Cowboys win the Super Bowl? And the other thing that gets me is how bent they are over Chris Christie as they term it "dry humping" Jerry Jones when Lawrence made the game ending strip. The game's in 5 days. It's time to start talking Green Bay X's and O's and enough of this nonsense. I listen to ESPN Radio of the Lehigh Valley and their hosts aren't even Eagles fans and they are saying that the entirety of America is rooting for Green Bay this weekend and for one day, they will be America's team. Embrace the hate people, because we are the ones getting the last laugh!!!

 

[TheDallasDon]

This is a bigger story than Seahawks vs Greenbay TD controversy to the media wth lol

 

[daveferr33]

I have a cousin that is a Steelers fan. I swear he can't stop talking about us and that call. He talks about the Cowboys ten times more than he does the Steelers? People hate us more than they love their own team..He's about to get Deleted on Facebook. Sent me a pic of a referee on a boat with a star on the side drinking a glass of wine. Even though its a game you can cross the line....

I would Delete him as well. He is probably too stupid to realize the irony of being a Steelers fan and complaining about another team receiving a beneficial call.

 

[Direwolf63]

Personally. I'm done with NFL Network, ESPN and all the loudmouth pundits until at least after the game. I have no interest in listening to all these overcaffinated morons blather on until Sunday.

 

[Fletch]

Thanks for pointing out the 2 percent of this week's coverage. Have you turned on your radio or TV since Sunday? I'll bet I've seen this play more than 1,000 times already.

I was in Buffalo Wild Wings, and it was on every screen ten times. And they have about 12 channels going.

Haha. To think there are still fans of our own fan base not ready to except what's going on, when they themselves were so critical from the beginning. Just gotta laugh.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Thanks for pointing out the 2 percent of this week's coverage. Have you turned on your radio or TV since Sunday? I'll bet I've seen this play more than 1,000 times already.

I was in Buffalo Wild Wings, and it was on every screen ten times. And they have about 12 channels going.

It was a controversial play. Not because a foul was called or not called.

But because how the call unfolded.

This would be controversial for any playoff team.

 

[Arkyvarminter]

I would Delete him as well. He is probably too stupid to realize the irony of being a Steelers fan and complaining about another team receiving a beneficial call.

If I delete him he would just say that I take a game too serious and rag me about that...It never ends

 

[daveferr33]

If I delete him he would just say that I take a game too serious and rag me about that...It never ends

Fair enough. My advice then is this: if he says anything more about it, ask him what time the Steelers play this weekend.

 

[THEHEREAFTER]

Hats off to the OP. Post of the year!

 

[links18]

Any journalist talking about conspiracies should be ashamed of themselves.​

 

[Yakuza Rich]

But please by all means pretend that it's us against the world. Which directly contradicts the idea we are America's Team.

No, it actually goes right in line with the idea we are America's Team.

Plenty of people absolutely hate it when the United States is successful and love to point to conspiracy theories towards the US.

It's called propaganda.

And that's all that has happened here since we beat the Lions. Sure, there are those that have supported the call, but notice how nobody mentions the bogus PI call on Williams which negated an important 3rd down conversion? Notice how nobody mentions the bogus holding call on Witten that negated the Murray TD?

Why?

Well, part of it is that Dallas fought back from those bogus calls by scoring a TD on the very next play after the bogus Williams PI (on 3rd and 12). And then scoring a TD a few players later after the bogus Witten hold.

What gets lost in all of this about the PI call is that the Lions didn't recover from it. And they had far less to recover from. They were leading and all the missed PI call did was make it 4th and 1, which the Lions didn't go for. And then shanked a punt to boot.

Sounds similar to when SEAL Team 6 found and killed Bin Laden and then dumped him in the ocean. They came, they saw, and with precision took out Bin Laden. And then there were conspiracy theorists that claimed he was dead all along and plenty of people not happy that we rid the earth of that pile of garbage. For years, people would tell the US that they were wasting their time going after Bin Laden and you'll never catch him because he's hiding out in some cave and they laughed at the idea of us trying to chase after him (even though we almost killed him and had him dead-to-rights on 10 different occasions). But years of persistence, educating ourselves on how his network operates and having super intelligent people on the case, they found him. And they went in there with precision and finished the job for good.

I would like to think that most of the world is happy for the US finding and killing Bin Laden. But there are plenty of people out there that aren't happy about it or just hate to admit that they were wrong and that the US would find and kill him. Just like those people that hate to admit that they were wrong that you can't win with Jerry Jones, Tony Romo is a choker, Jason Garrett can't coach and Dez Bryant is a locker room cancer.





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[LittleBoyBlue]

I have a cousin that is a Steelers fan. I swear he can't stop talking about us and that call. He talks about the Cowboys ten times more than he does the Steelers? People hate us more than they love their own team..He's about to get Deleted on Facebook. Sent me a pic of a referee on a boat with a star on the side drinking a glass of wine. Even though its a game you can cross the line....

And I quote....


The next day, then-Seahawks coach Mike Holmgren told fans at a civic gathering at Qwest Field: "I knew it was going to be tough going up against the Pittsburgh Steelers. I didn't know we were going to have to play the guys in the striped shirts, as well."

http://sports.espn.go.com/nfl/news/story?id=5444048




Seattle got beat out of Super Bowl win by referees favoring the stealers.

http://seattletimes.com/html/seahawksblog/2012557181_referee_bill_le.html

 

[DandyDon1722]

I would Delete him as well. He is probably too stupid to realize the irony of being a Steelers fan and complaining about another team receiving a beneficial call.

God yes - exactly - in the history of the NFL NO ONE TEAM has benefited more from officials calls than the Steelers.

If I were you I'd call his *** out on it. Ask him if he knows about the awful missed Mike Renfro call in the AFC Championship game that helped the Steelers to another Super Bowl and ushered in instant replay talk, then laugh at him as he stares back at you with a blank face.

Then tell him to get to know his damn team better before worrying about everybody else. Stupid freakin' people!

 

[mahoneybill]

I'm sick of it too. Listening to NFL radio and the stupid Lions fans still complaining. Thankfully, Jim Miller who is from Detroit, but not a Lions fan basically said to the caller, Lions should have made a play. I wonder what the Lions players are saying. They are probably saying woah is me too. I'm so glad I don't live in Detroit any longer. They are being stupid. They even have shirts that say "Detroit vs Everybody". Why?

Even he is changing. Yesterday he and Kirwin had a " former ref" on and all the talk was about how the call was missed. I think once they have seen the facemark grab, and understand that the announcement should not have been made before the conference, that they realize the refs did their job, and picked it up....

Also, as we saw, who thought Bailey would miss the FG after the turnover... Join the NFL it really is about the next play....

 

[MRV52]

All this comes with the territory, "Welcome to AMERICA'S TEAM", never do I want to hear that the Broncos or some other team has taken our title from us. We are the in thing the most talked about NFL franchise for the even the most stupidest topics. Man I love all the attention and controversy, who cares Packers next and then the ride continues,

 

[erod]

It was a controversial play. Not because a foul was called or not called.

But because how the call unfolded.

This would be controversial for any playoff team.

Absolutely, but if that same scenario happened the other way, I guarantee you there wouldn't be half the media uproar over it. They'd be twisting themselves in knots to support the referees decision.

 

[Toruk_Makto]

Absolutely, but if that same scenario happened the other way, I guarantee you there wouldn't be half the media uproar over it. They'd be twisting themselves in knots to support the referees decision.

I disagree.