To me, it looked like Santanio Holmes never quite got two feet down. Did anyone else think that? It looked like one foot was sort of caught up on the other one, and remained caught up until his hand came down out of bounds. Still an unbelievable catch.
The last "fumble" was CLEARLY an incomplete pass. I don't even see how that was arguable at all. Warner's hand starts coming forward (with the ball still clearly in his possession), his arm then gets hit, ball travels forward, and hits the ground. How in the world can that be a fumble.
That being said, if the Cardinals had a little more discipline, and weren't outcoached for the breif period to start the game, they likely win this game by a decent margain.
Overall, I can't remember ever seeing a Superbowl that exciting. Clearly, neither team was perfectly executing, and lacked a little bit of discipline, but I can't remember seeing so many "WOW" plays in one game. And I can't remember any game that displayed that football is a game of inches clearer then this game. Rothlisberger stopped inches short on the review, pittsburgh settling for 3. Harrison getting into the zone by inches, and if he had been stopped short the half may have been over with them scoring no points. I was saying to my brother while they were reviewing the Harrison one, that had Harrison been smart, seeing how little time he had, and that he was going to be tackled (perhaps short of the goal line), he probobly should have gone down at the ten or fifteen just to make sure the Steelers got points. Even after the review on that one, I thought that he may not have made it in, but their certainly wasn't any evidence strong enough to overturn it. A mistake by Warner, and all of the Pittsburgh players helping out downfeild blocking in what was definately the key play of the game.
Aslo, seeing how effective the no-huddle was against the Pittsburgh defense, I wish Arizona had gone to it earlier in the game.
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