From: marshall@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM (Bob Marshall)
Subject: Re: Why do the 49ers get to play by different rules???!!!
Reply-To: marshall@NEBULA.SSD.LMSC.LOCKHEED.COM
Organization: LMSC, Sunnyvale, California
Distribution: usa
Date: Tue, 15 Dec 92 00:43:07 GMT

In article <1992Dec13.201510.26638@serval.net.wsu.edu>, jjungbau@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Jim Jungbauer) writes:
>OK, take the 49ers possession right at the start of the 2nd quarter... the 
>Vikes come up with a huge sack on Steve Young, they're going to stop them
>from getting a TD after they were inside the 20, and they've even pushed them
>possibly out of FG range, right?  Wrong... enter the zebras... a mysterious
>personal foul which no one saw, including the announcers, (and we get no
>replay of course) which gives the 49ers a first down near the 10, leading to
>a TD.  This play could have changed the whole game around.  The Vikes were
>up 7-3 and had just come up with a *huge* defensive play, but no, this is the
>49ers, and we can't have them falling behind for too long, so the officials
>bail them out.  Where was the penalty???

OK, you're correct, it was a pretty bad call, but now that you have 
(hopefully) calmed down and are (hopefully) thinking rationally once again,
do you *really* believe the zebras made that call just because it was
the 49ers who were playing? Come on, what do the refs care who wins the
game? Also, I notice that the Vikings did not complain too much about
the call, so the ref must have seen something. True, it was probably
something petty, something that happens on every play and doesn't get
called, but it's ludicrous to claim that the refs give favoritism
to the the 49ers, or any other team. Why would they do that? What's
in it for them? Unless they are being paid off, which is even more
ludicrous.

>Next, late in the quarter Terry Allen is stopped just short of a first down
>near his own 30 with a little less than 2 minutes left.  Some big a**hole
>49er defensive player first holds Allens legs up in the air for several 
>seconds not allowing him to get up, then after he does, he shouts in Allen's
>face for several more seconds taunting him.  Allen NEVER DOES ANYTHING... he
>says like 2 words to the guy, NEVER MOVES TOWARD HIM, NEVER TOUCHES HIM, 
>NOTHING!  What happens?  The zebras, realizing that the 49ers will get great
>field position if they back up the Vikes, FLAG *ALLEN* for a 15-yd personal
>foul!!!  What the *HELL* was that???!!!  

Same as above, another bad and unfortunate call for the Vikes. But I don't
think you can make a leap of logic that proves favoritism. And as for its
impact on the game, there probably was none. The 49ers ended up getting
the ball eight or nine yards closer to the goal line; they probably 
would have scored anyway.

I think what he got flagged for is that when Gash was holding Allen like
a wheelbarrow, Allen gave him a little kick when Gash didn't let go. I
don't blame Allen, and it certainly was not worth a penalty, if indeed
that's what the penalty was for. Or he might have said something out of
frustration; again, that shouldn't draw a flag.

>Well, I'll stop now to watch the rest of the game.  Go ahead and flame away,
>frankly I don't care at this point, nothing is going to make this any worse.

OK, you have a right to be pissed about those calls, but no way did the
Vikings deserve to win that game. What did they do that was impressive?
OK, they had seven sacks against a very good (but short-handed) 49ers' OL.
And the defense made two big plays to account for 14 points. Other than that,
a very poorly played game by the Vikes. Only ten first downs and only 185
yards in offense. And even though they sacked Young seven times, Young
still completed 20 of 26. Face it, the better team won this game, 
deservedly so.

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