From: rege@bongo.Berkeley.EDU (Ashutosh G. Rege)
Newsgroups: rec.sport.football.pro
Subject: Re: Why do the 49ers get to play by different rules???!!!
Date: 13 Dec 1992 23:32:50 GMT
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In article <1992Dec13.201510.26638@serval.net.wsu.edu> jjungbau@yoda.eecs.wsu.edu (Jim Jungbauer) writes:
 >It is now early 2nd half in the 49ers-Vikes game and I'm about to rip the TV
 >set from the wall.  First, we need a QB!  Is there any chance that we'll
 >be able to draft a decent one?  We do get draft picks this year, right?
 >Second, I haven't really paid much attention to all of the complaints about
 >the favoritism shown to the 49ers by the officials, but this is unbelievable!
 >Let me make it clear, I am not blaming what looks like a possible loss for
 >the Vikes solely on the officiating... the 49ers offense has played great so
 >far... I'm just *sick* of these calls, and I have to let out the frustration.

   The Vikings have one of the most sorry offenses I've seen this
   season. If Gannon didn't scramble they'd not have had a single first
   down in the game. 
  
 >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???

   CBS has got to have the worst camera crew ever. Their coverage of
   the Eagles/Niners game especially at the controversial 4th down call
   was bad enough but this was pathetic. How can you say what happened
   on that play, and why do you assume that the refs were wrong ? There
   was no replay so nobody but the zebras and the players knew what happened 
   at that time. And I didn't see the Vikings complaining too 
   vociferously. 
  
 >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???!!!  

   This play had no effect, the Vikes were still well inside their
   own territory and would have to punt anyway (Allen was clearly short
   of the first down) and the Niners didn't do anything when they
   got the ball and the half ended. Besides we don't know what happened
   - maybe we should wait till there's an explanation in the papers 
   tomorrow. 
  
 >What are you supposed to do???!!!  It's really tough to get fired up again
 >after the officials bail out the other team and give them a great shot at
 >a TD that SHOULD HAVE NEVER HAPPENED, and then pull this crap with Allen!.
  
 >I won't even get into the countless holding plays by 49ers tackles that go 
 >unnoticed by the officials, while great Roger Craig runs get called back for
 >holding that we never saw.

   This is pathetic. There was only one "great Roger Craig run" that was
   called back. Besides as you know by now the Niners would have put
   the game away with the Rice TD that was called back. Face the music :
   the Vikes are a solid defense and no offense. The only reason they
   stayed close in this game was the fact that the Niners had Tamm
   playing for the first time ever as a tackle and then he gets knocked
   out, which brings in Sapolu as long snapper which causes the punt
   to get screwed up. If they had gotten off the punt are you confident
   the Vikings would have scored ? 

 >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.
 >
 >Jim Jungbauer               | Go Vikings, North Stars, Twins, Cougars!

   I hope you will post another article complaining about the refs
   bad call on the Gannon fumble on their last drive. That would have
   given the ball to the Niners at about the 50 yard line and there
   would have been virtually no possibility of another Vike possession. 

   I find it hard to believe that there is any kind of bias in the
   bad calls made by refs. That's part of the game. Last season the
   Niners lost 6 games and you could point to a bad call in virtually
   every game. So why are the refs favoring the Niners in 92 ?

   Ashu Rege
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