There’s no way for me to discuss the Pittsburgh Steelers’ highly dubious game-winning touchdown against the Baltimore Ravens in an objective manner. Is there any way to be 100% certain that one molecule of that football crossed the invisible plain that rises up in a perpendicular angle from the very front of the goal line? No, there is not. We benefited from a ruling that was questionable at best and flat-out wrong at worst.
And you know what? I’ll take that. Yes, Ravens fans are bitter because of it, but if the shoe were on the other foot, those same Ravens fans would be laughing their asses off at us today, while Seattle Seahawks fans would be crowing about karmic retribution after Super Bowl XL or something.
So I’ll just ask this question, because I’m genuinely curious — what do Cleveland Browns fans think of this ruling?
Because if I sat in the Dawg Pound and yelled my lungs out for the Browns every year, and I heard Ravens fans complaining that the refs cheated them out of a victory, I think I’d be inclined to tell those Ravens fans to fuck right off, because they stole football from our city for three whole years and won a Super Bowl with what should have been our team. That would pretty much erase any sympathy I might have for that particular franchise.
Then again, if I were a Browns fan, maybe I wouldn’t want the hated Steelers to be the benefactors in this scenario. Maybe that would outweigh my general hatred of the Ravens.
So if there are any Browns fans out there would like to chime in with their thoughts on this call, feel free. I actually find myself rooting for the Browns defense tonight, because I have a 29-point lead in my fantasy league semifinal — more proof that fantasy football makes stranger bedfellows than politics — and the only player my opponent has left is Donovan McNabb. So try to keep him from getting more than 300 yards and 3 TDs tonight, okay? I could use that extra $20.
UPDATE (3:03 PM): As for the Ravens, they took that loss pretty well.
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2 Tony curtiss // Jan 17, 2009 at 1:45 am
Both his feet were down so it was a TD. Look at it this way, on a punt where a team is trying to down the ball on the 1 yard line, if ANY part of that player is touching in the endzone and touching the ball, it is a touchback because if the person is in the endzone, so is the ball.
Eat a flying Fuck Baltimore. Ya stabbing bitches.