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From: dettelis@canisius.UUCP (Carl Dettelis)
Newsgroups: net.sport.football
Subject: superbowl officiating blooper
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Date: Tue, 28-Jan-86 22:30:21 EST
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Posted: Tue Jan 28 22:30:21 1986
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Subject: Super Bowl foulup
Newsgroups: Net.sports.football


At the end of the first half of the Super Bowl, it was
mentioned that the referees made a mistake in allowing the
Bears to kick the field goal. They said that since the Bears
deliberately tried to stop the clock with 3 seconds to go, there
should have been 10 seconds run off the clock.
I dissagree with this. When Jim Mcmahon was takled, there were
18 seconds left on the clock. You would think that a team sould be
able to line up and snap the ball in 18 seconds. The reason they couldn't
was because there was a Patriot who deliberately held JM down after
he was tackled, and a bigger reason was because there were Patriots
in the Chicago backfield who were pushing Bears that were trying to 
huddle. For this reason, I feel that the clock should have been stopped
with no penalty to the time clock assessed.

	-I was wondering what other people on the net thought
	 about this.

		-Carl (maddog) Dettelis