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• Monday, February 6, 2006 05:14 AM

  My take on the Zebra calls

  Roethlisberger's TD: The replay call was correct. The play was so close, and the view of the ball was partially blocked by Ben's arm, that I don't think replay could have overturned any call, TD or not. The ref on the field, first ready to spot the ball, decided it had gotten in. Tough judgment call either way.

  Holding: The fact that the announcers, including possibly the most annoying man to ever cover a game while having large ugly caterpillars replace his eyebrows, means nothing. I don't remember the comment and therefore don't remember the play. I just wanted to mention Madden's eyebrows.

  Pushing off: I struggled with this at first, but on replay, he did push off. Was it a strong, knock you to the ground push? No. But right in front of the ref he push hid defender one way and moved the other to catch the ball. Dumb and done. Correct call.

  No catch-fumble: Watch the replay...the only reason the Steelers did not recover that fumble before it went out of bounds was the play was whistled dead. This call, clearly the wrong one in my view, was in the favor of the Seahawks.

  Pylon TD: I wonder about this one, too. If the pylon counts as in bounds as far as getting two feet in -as opposed to just being in bounds if the football contacts it- then this should have been a TD. I agree, his foot did hit the pylon. Possibly a bad call, but then why didn't Seattle challenge it? I do believe they had one left...

  My Call on the refs: Everything that was replayed was called correctly. There was at least one bad call (the no catch/fumble) and it went to the Seahaws' favor. Possibly another that could have been challenged that went against them.

  Refs get a B+ for staying out of the way.

  —ChefColeman Read ChefColeman's other letters
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