8) That was my favorite part of the game. I was holding my annual protest in my office here...refusing to watch the Super Bowl until my Rams are returned...when Diane knocked on the door to tell me that the lights had gone out in the Superdome and the game was halted. I stood up and cheered! This was what I wanted! Misery and confusion with Frisco fans groping around in the dark! Oh joy! Oh rapture! I hear that the 49ers blew it in the end too... This is my best day in weeks!
Here's something I don't quite get about coaches these days and their love affair with the endzone fade pass. I see it so often, whether it's the Houston Texans trying really hard to get the fade to Andre Johnson or the Fighting Irish trying to get the fade to Tyler Eifert. It's not an easy pass to throw, I see it thrown out of bounds more often than not, and when it's in bounds it seems like a difficult catch to make...of course when it works it looks great. But I couldn't for the life of me figure out why Jim Harbaugh decided after dominating the Ravens DL with the run game, had a great OL, great RB's and a rookie QB who is good at running the ball he decided to throw the fade on the most important play of the game. It seems to me that once you commit to throwing the fade the QB is out of options he has to throw the fade. I really don't understand why coaches are so much in love with the fade.
What no one is talking about is that the pass landed about 4-5 feet out of bounds. It's entirely possible - not probable - that #15, if not entangled with the Ravens DB, could have gotten both hands on the ball, BUT he would have been in the air, headed toward the OB line. Could he have come down with both feet in bounds? We'll never know, but to assume it would have been a TD is a stretch. Something else.....Sitting here in Indy, everyone watching the power outage went, WHEW! Glad that didn't happen last year. Also, the numbers for visitors to the NFL ttractions was less than 35% of last year's record attendance in Indy, 90,000 in NOLA to 265,000 in Indy. http://www.ibj.com/big-easy-super-bowl-attraction-crowds-fall-short-of-indys/PARAMS/article/39430
I agree Sid I don't think that ball was catchable, if they'd called the penalty of course SF would have had a new set of downs at the 2 yd line.
It's history. One Harbaugh brother is left to whine and scream and stomp up and down, while the classy brother deservedly won.
LOL! In truth, the attractions during Super Bowl Week are meant more for families and day-trip visitors, other than those from the two team cities, who come to town for the experience. Draw a 100-150 mile circle around Indy, and you'll likely find a much higher population base than the same circle around NOLA, half of which is water. That would be a logical reason why the NFL wants to continue to hold some SBs in the northern cities.
I have no attachment to the Ravens but watching Jim Harbaugh whine and cry for four hours gave me great pleasure. :twisted:
The thing about an electrical system is that there are always external events that can happen that you have no control over. Having said that, I read an article today where they apparently spent a whole lot of money to minimize the possibility of problems. It looks like there will be some kind of investigation. I was rooting for the Ravens.
the fade is not a difficult pass to throw. IMHO, I think the bad fades speak to the fact that they are going more with QBs in the NFL who are more athletic but not that strong on touch passes. The thing with this pass is that it is something you need to work on every day until you don't. Even then, it's something you should have the QB throw 10-20 times a day in practice once he's shown he can throw it. One thing I've noticed, aside from the lack of touch, is that they throw a lot of these passes to the front pylon or to the middle sideline of the endzone. That's wrong. You can practice throwing fade routes without a WR to catch it. The perfect fade should come straight down on the back corner pylon. I think the combination of it being misused and poor touch lead to the frustration (that I agree with) from Terry and other fans.
Wuerfell was the best I've ever seen at the endzone fade. Jimmy Clausen with Golden Tate and Michael Floyd was a close 2nd.
Was sitting in the endzone in 1995 watching UF-FSU and watched Weurffel throw the most amazing fade TD pass I have ever seen. He dropped back on the FSU 35 and launched a high fade toward the very corner of the endzone and no player of any team seemed near it but in the middle of the field I noticed a Gator WR hustling his ass off toward the goal line with his head down and then when he crossed the goal line he immediately made a beeline for the corner and arrived at the same time as the highly arced ball thrown by Weurffel...... Touchdown!