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From: dday@gymble.UUCP (Dennis Doubleday)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: Re: Bears, Pats, Refs, Ditka
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Date: Sun, 2-Feb-86 15:00:03 EST
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Posted: Sun Feb  2 15:00:03 1986
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In article <845@decwrl.DEC.COM> pannell@dec-dosadi.UUCP writes:
>they did have a lot to do with the high score.  The plays that I can think of 
>that MIGHT have added to the score were the non-call on the clip that would 
>have moved the ball out of touchdown range and possibly out of field goal 
>range.  You might remember that play as the one that set up the first Bear 
>touchdown and left Merlin Olsen in a state of disbelief.
 
I still don't know what Olsen was talking about.  I taped the game and
watched it again and there was no clip.  The blocker came from the side and
put his body in *FRONT* of the guy.  It wasn't called because it wasn't a
clip.

>  Then there was the 
>field goal at the end of the half in which the refs admitted they made a 
>mistake.  The other play was a third down and 9, in which McMahon threw a pass
>to his "out-of-bounds" receiver, but was then ruled complete and placed on the
>1 yard line.
 
The receiver was definitely out of bounds.  Bad call.  And the refs did err
in letting the Bears kick before the half.  *BUT*, the refs exercised bad
judgment before the penalty when they didn't stop the clock because the 
Patriot players were clearly impeding the Bears' attempts to line up and get
off a play.  The rule book obliges them to stop the clock if, in their
judgment, this is happening.  

>but 
>he failed to mention that McMahon threw the ball at Roland James after one of 
>his TDs
 
and you failed to mention that Roland James knocked the ball out of McMahon's
hand when was attempting to spike after his touchdown.  McMahon picked it up
and THEN threw it at James' feet.  Altogether understandable, I would say.

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