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[h2]Cheaters Feel Cheated: Patriots Fans Want Final 1:40 of Super Bowl XLII Investigated[/h2]
Posted Feb 9th 2008 1:10PM by Dan Benton
Filed under: NY Giants, Patriots, NFL Fans,Boston, Super Bowl, New York, FeaturedStories
In a humorously ironictwist, fans of the New England Patriots are demanding that the NFL investigate the final 1:40 of Super Bowl XLII because -- get this -- they feel cheated.
And no, this is not a joke.
According to the disgruntled Patriots fan who created the original petition on petitiononline.com, the game clock should not have stopped following Brandon Jacobs' fourth-and-one plunge and thus, the game should have ended on the sack of Eli Manning with 50 seconds remaining.
This fan, and the other 7,815 (and counting) who have apparently signed this ridiculouspetition, were obviously too busy crying in their beer to realize that it was an administrative time-out. The referees were determining whether or not tomeasure the spot -- something that requires a clocks-stoppage under NFL rules. Once the first down was determined without a measurement, the clock was woundand continued to run.
If anything, using the fan's logic, this petition proves that New England shouldn't have had 35 seconds left on their next possession. If anything,they should have had 29 seconds or less.
But hey, what can you expect from fans who say they love their team at 18-0 and then claim they were bored to tears during the greatest Super Bowl of all time?
Salty Patriots Fans
How ironic that they would feel they were cheated smh
Posted Feb 9th 2008 1:10PM by Dan BentonFiled under: NY Giants, Patriots, NFL Fans,Boston, Super Bowl, New York, FeaturedStories
And no, this is not a joke.
According to the disgruntled Patriots fan who created the original petition on petitiononline.com, the game clock should not have stopped following Brandon Jacobs' fourth-and-one plunge and thus, the game should have ended on the sack of Eli Manning with 50 seconds remaining.
This fan, and the other 7,815 (and counting) who have apparently signed this ridiculouspetition, were obviously too busy crying in their beer to realize that it was an administrative time-out. The referees were determining whether or not tomeasure the spot -- something that requires a clocks-stoppage under NFL rules. Once the first down was determined without a measurement, the clock was woundand continued to run.
If anything, using the fan's logic, this petition proves that New England shouldn't have had 35 seconds left on their next possession. If anything,they should have had 29 seconds or less.
But hey, what can you expect from fans who say they love their team at 18-0 and then claim they were bored to tears during the greatest Super Bowl of all time?
Salty Patriots Fans
How ironic that they would feel they were cheated smh
