Tuesday, 11 January 2005 - 9:22 AM

Excerpt from The JagsZone found at - http://www.jagszone.com/archives/index.php?article_id=305

Peyton Manning is one of my least favorite players in the NFL, but watching the game in Foxboro Sunday, even I felt for him and the Colts. Because they didn?t have a chance. I?m certainly not a fan of the Colts, so I think I can say this with pretty good unbiased status. In my opinion the officials just gave New England the game.

Can I ask somebody something? If the officials really are impartial, how the heaven do they keep giving games to New England? I mean, is there any justice in this world? Somebody high in the NFL has got stock or is putting their liabilities on the Patriots? balance sheet or something. I mean if an opposing team had God as their quarterback in Foxboro, they?d still have to have him zap the Zebras to win the game.

Frozen Foxboro is a site of unparalleled official madness.

i.e.

1982 ? Patriots 3 Dolphins 0 - In a ?Snow Bowl? game when neither offense could even stand up straight, much less score, a convict snowplow man comes out and clears the field for the New England Patriots to kick the winning field goal late in the game.

2001 ? Patriots 16 Raiders 13 OT ? On a play late Tom Brady clearly fumbles, but the refs call it an incomplete forward pass. The Pats kick a late tying field goal and win it in overtime.

2003 ? Patriots 17 Titans 14 ? Pats get all the calls.

2003 ? Patriots 24 Colts 14 ? Late in the game, with the Colts behind 21-14 and possessing the ball, on a 3rd and 4th down, TE Marcus Pollard is clearly being held or there is pass interference and the zebras don?t call it neither time.


If I were a team having to play New England in the playoffs, I?d just call in sick, because they aren?t going to lose with like 17 guys to your 11.

So, for the 2nd year in 3, the Patriots are handed on a ?Black and White Platter? a trip to the Super Bowl. And I feel for Peyton Manning.