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I am not one for conspiracy theories, but I saw this piece of video of the last couple minutes of Super Bowl XLII and there’s a lot of things which seem suspicious. As you’ll see in the video, the Giants were given in essence an extra timeout and Tom Coughlin got away with a harsh infraction which may have doomed the Giants’ final drive. In all, the G-men gained an extra full minute to score and win the Super Bowl. Keep extra attention to the Jacobs play where the clock is stopped yet a mysterious six seconds are added to the clock. This is not simply a Pats fan manipulating video, but it’s noticed by Joe Buck and Troy Aikman. Enjoy.
Patriots Get Screwed by Clock?
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I remember saying “why did the clock just stop?” when this all went down. This is messed up.
I’m serious when I say this, we should write an email to John Kerry. He lobbied to get the NFL to show the final regular season game on CBS and NBC…perhaps he can get the NFL to admit their mistake!
There was no problem with the clock, this video has been debunked. Peter King wrote an article in SI basically saying the fan doesn’t know what hes talking about. The clock stops there on 4th down if there is even a possibility of a measurement, even if the measurement is simply an eyeball measurement by the official. It was an officials timeout. There was also a conference to add 6 seconds which unjustly ran off. After the short conference Carey waited for the officials to get back into their positions before he wound the clock (which is standard in the nfl), the Giants as you would expect were already in position to run the next play, as they were in the hurry up
Even if the officials did not stop the clock there (which they should have done by NFL rule), the Giants would not have allowed 35 or more seconds to elapse without running a play, they were in their hurry up offense and had all 3 timeouts. They scored the game winner with 35 seconds left, so if anything it would have only give the Pats LESS time at the end on their final drive
Well said, Jeff. Patriot fans have even written a protest about this issue to Roger Goodell. Your post emphasizes the falacy of this viewpoint. It is amazing how many Patriot fans can be such poor losers. They couldn’t find any PI calls to complain about, so they had to drum up one officiating call to contest. Why don’t they just focus on the missed INT on the previous play. Joe Buck is just a poor football announcer – he really doesn’t understand the game, but runs his mouth like a beer swilling fan.
What about the NE/PIT game that an extra 52 seconds were added to the game in the 4th quarter? The Pats marched down the field to kick a gw field goal. Brady had 1:21 left to work with when he should have only had 29 seconds.