[OT] Did you turn off MNF when it was 35-14?

[Rel]

I didn't see much of the game, so I don't know what's going on about this "leaping" call. Anyone care to clarify?

I know that it's against NFL rules to use a fellow teammate's body in certain advantageous ways. So for example, in a crucial goal line situation, they can't just put the ball in the hands of a heavily-padded midget and throw him over the defense for a TD. If this leaping thing is what I think it is, I'd imagine using a fellow player as a ramp to jump higher would be disallowed under the same rule.

He didn't step on anybody to gain height. He jumped up and a little forward. As he came down, he got a bit sandwiched between some of the linemen, one of whom was blocked backwards into him. The rule apparently disallows you to land on anybody and that's what was called against him.

 

[Crothian]

Wasn't there also a part about no more then a one yard running start or something like that? I think there was a running start claus and that's why we don't see it called, no one really takes a running start to try to block.

 

[Welverin]

Being a Bucs fan, I couldn't believe it. I started helping my wife with some domestic stuff (cooking banana bread, don't tell ANYone) and looked this morning to see how bad it was when I nearly slipped out of my chair. Since I have looked for answers - why did it happen? who messed up? how, how, how?

AL and John mentioned late in the game that the Bucs D looked tired, so maybe after the Colts O showed up in the second half they just wore them down. I wouldn't know for sure since I wasn't into the game from the beginning and ended up watching a couple of shows on the History channel and didn't start watching until about midnight and saw the colts get within seven and stuck around for the onsides kick.

 

[Mystery Man]

AL and John mentioned late in the game that the Bucs D looked tired, so maybe after the Colts O showed up in the second half they just wore them down.

And the look on their faces at overtime was "shock and awe".

Call me crazy, but I think this my be Manning's year.

 

[Eridanis]

It was after 11pm when the Red Sox/As game ended, so I turned over to ABC before going to bed. THe 3rd quarter was just ending, so I said, "I need sleep - I shouldn't get involved in this game, too."

Turns out maybe I should have, anyway. I'd like to think that the presence of all those game-players next door this summer gave them good game karma*. Or something like that...

*For those that didn't go to GenCon, the convention center in Indy is attached to the RCA Dome, where the Colts play home games.

 

[Wormwood]

I turned it off at 35-14, confident that my beloved Bucs would prevail.

Then, just a few minutes later I hear a chorus of shouts from outside my bedroom window---my neighbors.

I realized this could only mean one thing, and I rushed to the television and saw the carnage in stunned disbelief.

T'was a long, dark night of the soul here in Tampa Bay last night.

 

[Greyhawk_DM]

That field goal was definitely deflected, and it was definitely shanked just like the last one had been.

When they were showing the replay and Madden was talking about it...It looked like the ball was deflected back inside just enough to hit the goal post and go in, otherwise it would have went wide-right. LOL...what a night of football.
I think that is the 3rd MNF game I have watched that has went to OT and didn't end until 12:00 a.m [central time]. If this keeps up there are going to have to start the games at 7:00 p.m. like they used to...lol

 

[Mista Collins]

A real good game indeed. I have always been a Buc fan but when Indy was called with "Roughing the Kicker" when TB went to punt it away near the end of the fourth, I thought TB lucked out. Grammitica did a good job of drawing that penalty that shouldn't have been called to give them 1st down. So I guess the Bucs deserve to have a "bad, but right, call" against them.

Now only if the Lions could make me proud this year. It has never been the same since Barry Sanders left a while back.

 

[Bass Puppet]

Found this on Sportsillustrated.cnn.com

NFL: Leaping penalty on Rice was correct
Posted: Tuesday October 7, 2003 3:33PM;

NEW YORK (AP) -- The NFL confirmed officials made the right call when they penalized Simeon Rice for leaping to try to block a field-goal attempt in the Indianapolis Colts' stunning overtime victory against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.

The call Monday night gave Indianapolis a second chance at a field goal that won the game 38-35 and capped one of the greatest comebacks in NFL history. The Colts trailed Tampa Bay by three touchdowns with under four minutes left in regulation. Rice, a 6-foot-5 defensive end, was penalized for unsportsmanlike conduct after jumping to try to block Mike Vanderjagt's missed 40-yard field-goal attempt. Vanderjagt got another chance and made a 29-yarder that hit the right upright.

The league confirmed Tuesday what referee Johnnie Grier said after the game: The rules ban running forward, leaping and falling on a player, as Rice did.

Rule 12, section three, article two calls for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty on a player "clearly running forward and leaping in an obvious attempt to block a field goal or try-kick after touchdown and landing on players unless the leaping player was originally lined up within one yard of the line of scrimmage when the ball was snapped."

 

[Bass Puppet]

..oh yeah. GO DOLPHINS!!