From: ronnie@uts.amdahl.com (Ronnie Townsend)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Bills were LUCKY!!!!!!
Date: 7 Jan 93 15:09:09 GMT
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA

In article <1993Jan7.075843.28448@leland.Stanford.EDU> gsroka@leland.Stanford.EDU (Gregory Sroka) writes:
>In article <1993Jan5.155118.22249@advtech.uswest.com> steven@advtech.uswest.com ( Steve Novak) writes:
>>> = (james e kist) writes:
>>
>>>Let's not forget the bad call against Bruce Smith for a legitimate tackle
>>>of Warren Moon. 
>>
>>C'mon.  He could've just run INTO Moon from his momentum; but Smith
>>bashed Moon head-first, hard, into the ground.
>>
>
>Wrong in a BIG way!!  Did you SEE the play? Watch it again if you can.
>Smith was in the air (i.e. both feet off the ground) as he was diving at
>the QB around a blocker. Basically doing his job, trying to get in the QB's
>face for a sack or at least to break up the pass.  Now get a mechanical
>engineer to figure out for you what will happen with Smith's hands on Moon's
>shoulder's, feet off the ground, Moon just releasing a pass.  Think mass,
>centroid, torque, momentum, etc.  What I saw was the two of them  falling,
>Smith back and Moon forward. The reason Moon's head hit the ground first
>was pure physics. Smith is a great player, but come on, even he can't
>"bash" Moon head first while he's in the air. His momentum was taking
>him up in the air, while Moon's momentum was forward through the pass.

Oh my god... I don't believe this... So Smith dives at Moon... sees the pass
leave and then is helpless to prevent his hands from reaching out as he falls 
past Moon.. nor could he stop himself from pulling Moon's shoulders down and 
he would have had to defy the laws of physics to stop his arms from yanking 
Moon's upper torso down to the turf at warp-speed. I don't know how the ref 
could have missed that! 

>>"legitimate tackle"; that was unnecessary roughness.
>
>No again. They both knew that they'd been screwed again. But they're used 
>to ref's not being able to follow the speed and agility of Smith.
>The ref just instantly reacted because it "looked like" roughness.
>
>The announcer was also quite annoying, saying Smith could have let up,
>even after the third replay.  I kept thinking, stop talking long enough 
>to look at your monitor, you idiot. You try making an acrobatic dive at the
>QB while being blocked, grab the QB almost before the pass is off, and then
>"decide to let up" while your only connection to the ground is through
>the QB's shoulders!  I understand the ref not seeing everything, but I hate
>unobservant commentators. Then during a later series, after seeing Smith 
>run straight into Moon and smash him to the ground, in a much more
>traditional tackle, the guy says something like: "See, now that was his 
>momentum. He couldn't help that, unlike the earlier play." 
>

Please remove your head from your ..... the difference on the plays was 
obvious. On the first play, Smith grabbed Moon as he went by and pulled him 
down... on the second play he smashed into him after leaping into the air. 

-- 
Ronnie
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Whenever the fates hear someone say, "It can't get any worse than this..." 
They just laugh and double your misery! 


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