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vinsanity wrote:

GatewaySnayke wrote:The Tuck Rule is absolutely nothing like the completion/incompletion. Tampa had a chance to stop the Rams still, and that game was not even over. It was a missed call. Bad, but it happens. Walt Coleman's call was the biggest farce since Dekinger. When the Raiders fell on that ball, the game would've ended.

Correct The Tuck Rule is nothing like a completion or incompletion - thank you for teaching me the basics of football.

Actually I was talking about the situations. The Tuck Controversy was nothing like the Incompletion Controversy.

The point still remains: a better team wouldn't have scored only 3 points the first 3 quarters. You can't call the entire Playoffs 'illegitimate' because of one bad call in the Second Round Game.

Sure you can. The team that fumbled the ball away and lost the game with less than two minutes to play was allowed to keep the ball and eventually score to tie the game and win. How does that make the playoffs legitimate? It's all in the past now, but Tagliabue's paper champions got theirs against Denver four years later and Patriots fans are probably STILL whining how they were jobbed.

I don't think the Rams ever beat the Raiders in the Super Bowl.

GatewaySnayke wrote:Actually I was talking about the situations. The Tuck Controversy was nothing like the Incompletion Controversy.

More publicized? Yes. In fact clearing the incompletion was more noticed because the crappy rule was actually changed after that season. According to the letter of the current 'tuck rule' if a Quarterback goes in to the throwing motion and brings the ball down as long as he doesn't tuck it against his body it's still an incompletion. I fail to see why you're so upset the Ref made the right call in the framework of NFL rules.

The point still remains: a better team wouldn't have scored only 3 points the first 3 quarters. You can't call the entire Playoffs 'illegitimate' because of one bad call in the Second Round Game.

Sure you can. The team that fumbled the ball away and lost the game with less than two minutes to play was allowed to keep the ball and eventually score to tie the game and win. How does that make the playoffs legitimate? It's all in the past now, but Tagliabue's paper champions got theirs against Denver four years later and Patriots fans are probably STILL whining how they were jobbed.

The ball was on the raiders 48 yard line, in the snow with 1:43 left. That means after the replay it's Second and long and something like a 70 yard field go. Seems like they still needed to go 30 yds to tie the game. The Raiders could have stopped them easily, but they didn't. They could have won in OT but they didn't.The Pats still then had to beat the Steelers on the road and the Rams in the bowl.

Had anyone else won that Super Bowl would it had still been illegitimate? I can't believe your griping about the Pats still whining (sniffle sniffle) about a call that's a year old and you're griping about one from 5 years ago?