flashOverride

January 18th, 2015 at 9:54 PM ^

I have one Sparty friend who is just unrelenting with that, whenever Brady does anything. I've shown him the massive disparity in passing attempts between him and Henson in 1998 and 1999, doesn't matter. Fingers in ears. Someday in the next couple decades they'll produce a QB who has sustained success in the NFL, and maybe they'll finally get over it. 

LSAClassOf2000

January 18th, 2015 at 10:31 PM ^

Just as a general question - have you considered asking this person if they have ever thought about the benefits of perhaps giving their brain to a neurophysiological study of sports fandom even though they are evidently still using said brain? I am sure whoever is running the study would be intrigued by their rationalizations and denial.

Blau

January 18th, 2015 at 10:54 PM ^

True but it also didn't help they picked up a flag on a correctly called penalty and missed an important hold on the Cowboys winning drive. Football is a momentum game and the refs changed it really fast. Sour grapes aside, winners find a way to win big games and Tom Brady has done it better than anyone since he came into the NFL.

mgoblue0970

January 18th, 2015 at 11:37 PM ^

Football is also a game that is 60:00 long.  So even if the ref blew a call, what were the Lions doing the other 59:30?  Yes, winners find a way to win and losers blame the refs.  The Lions had a 14-0 lead; was it the refs fault they blew that too?

PapabearBlue

January 19th, 2015 at 1:15 AM ^

Hate that excuse, its not what cost the game, no, but the rest of the stuff is within the confines of the game. Bad reffing is an outside influence and is so absolutely rampant within this sport that it borders on suspicious that little to mothing is being done to fix it.

mgoblue0970

January 20th, 2015 at 7:57 PM ^

Don't disagree...

But it's been happening for years. 

Anyone remember the botched coin toss against Pittsburgh on Turkey Day for example?  Heck, they made a fucking rule out of one of the reffing fuck-ups.  The Calvin Johnson Rule.

I coach my U-14 team to "play better than the refs".  They get it.  But the adults here don't.  *smh*