Zero Penalities on the Broncos

[JeffGollin]

I realize the refs didn't cost us the game...I was so angry over the whole debarcle [including the biased officating]...The guy behind me suggested they had no penalities because they were a clean team.

I agree. How can a team with Nalen (Mr. Go For the Knees) on it wind up with zero penalties?

I thought the call on Antonio Smith was bogus. The holding call on Wakefield was apparently a "ghost call" - the official admitted it wasn't Fred but someone else. (Oh yeah, who?)

There was also a Denver fumble earlier in the game where it looked as though the Cardinals had recovered, but the officials took their own sweet time to get to the pile and unravel the bodies; thereby giving the Bronco players plenty of time to grope under the pile and take away the ball.

I agree. Lousy officiating didn't necessarily cost us the game, but Denver definitely had the 13th Man out there.

 

[Sandan]

I thought the call on Antonio Smith was bogus. T

No he hit him for sure, however somehow the ref standing right there missed the Bronco who punched him first.

 

[lobo]

The guy behind me suggested they had no penalities because they were a clean team. When I caught melf from turning around to tell him what I thought of the dirtiest team in the league, I knew it was time to leave.[/quote]

smart move....as i posted before...the "losers" are the teams that get penalized the most...if you look over the years guys like shula teams were penalized less than we have been in one year...not quite but you get my drift....ditto for many other "winning" coaches over a body of work...the lombardi teams NEVER got penalized....the landry cowboys...rarely...and there are guys who played the game that you could could throw a flag on any play...WHATEVER.

 

[Rolling Thunder]

There was also a Denver fumble earlier in the game where it looked as though the Cardinals had recovered, but the officials took their own sweet time to get to the pile and unravel the bodies; thereby giving the Bronco players plenty of time to grope under the pile and take away the ball.

Damn, that might be the first time in the history of the league that the team who had possession when the pile started, didn't have possession when everyone was pulled off.

 

[ANDY440]

When I sat in the southendzone of SDS for the first 8 years, there was a guy who would yell "Striped :rhymes with maggot starts with f:" when the refs made a bad call. After a while, he would just start yelling it all the time.

That has to be my cousin Gerry, we were in sec 38 row 17 on the isle.
Please confirm

 

[Mulli]

That has to be my cousin Gerry, we were in sec 38 row 17 on the isle.
Please confirm

That sounds about right. I think the guy wore a Cards' hard hat. I was there with my dad. We may have been in the row in front of you and in a couple more seats.

 

[ANDY440]

That sounds about right. I think the guy wore a Cards' hard hat. I was there with my dad. We may have been in the row in front of you and in a couple more seats.

Thats us. Do you remember the guy who wore the bandana & danced playing the air guitar? Dude would jump down a few rows at a time.There were the blonde brothers who owned the Gunslinger hot sauce outfit about where you sat also.

 

[Mulli]

Thats us. Do you remember the guy who wore the bandana & danced playing the air guitar? Dude would jump down a few rows at a time.There were the blonde brothers who owned the Gunslinger hot sauce outfit about where you sat also.

I do remember the dancing guy. He would fall of the seat all the time when he did that guitar thing. The hot sauce guys were very cool. The father and son right in front of us were pretty nice. The son kicked for Westwood I think. Good times.

 

[JC_AZ]

Hey Andy... we will have to let Gerry know that he is officially recognized in the annals of Arizona Cardinal History...his quote will be eternally recognized!

I always worried that the "air guitar dancing guy" was gonna break his ankle and some low life RAIDA fan would pretend he knocked him down

 

[Mulli]

Hey Andy... we will have to let Gerry know that he is officially recognized in the annals of Arizona Cardinal History...his quote will be eternally recognized!

I always worried that the "air guitar dancing guy" was gonna break his ankle and some low life RAIDA fan would pretend he knocked him down

That raider fan would have been killed or torn into tiny little pieces.