Super Bowl: Pass interference, or good no-call?

[DJL]

Sounds like:

I really didn't care who won, not a big fan of either team. It's was just obvious that Crabtree was being held. If you disagree, you are only fooling yourself.

 

[bighawkeyedaddy]

As someone who didn't care who won, it upset me most because I wanted to see Flacco get the ball back and see if they could come back and have a game winning drive of their own if the 49ers punched it in.

 

[HomerChampless]

Is this a precedent? Whenever the game is on the line, the refs aren't going to throw any laundry?

 

[sportstalent]

I thought that, too. But if Crabtree hadn't been held, could he have gotten to the corner of the end zone and made a leaping catch? Pure speculation, I know. And I agree with those who've said you don't decide the Super Bowl on a call like that.

You act like if they called the penalty it results in a TD.

SF still would have had to score...they had four times to do it and didn't. Nothing is a given.

 

[TChawk]

Arm around his back, turning his body - or not allowing him to turn. It should have been called.

The SF/ATL game was worse on 4th down where White was held from the snap till the ball was thrown when the LB went through white to knock it down....it wasn't called there and was more obvious PI than this was.

 

[Hawkeye11en1]

The SF/ATL game was worse on 4th down where White was held from the snap till the ball was thrown when the LB went through white to knock it down....it wasn't called there and was more obvious PI than this was.

link?

 

[sportstalent]

I thought that, too. But if Crabtree hadn't been held, could he have gotten to the corner of the end zone and made a leaping catch? Pure speculation, I know. And I agree with those who've said you don't decide the Super Bowl on a call like that.

I don't believe he could, it looks like it fell too far out of bounds.

Like I said, I think if the ball had been anywhere closer, the ref would have had a more difficult decision.

The reality is though, had SF not gotten themselves in such a hole and their defense would have played anywhere near capable of what they are capable of it would have been a different game altogether. The SF offense early made the Raven defense look like the 2000 defense and that was also a factor.

I am a 49ers fan and even if I wasn't, I think the call should have been made, but that is not what determined the outcome of the game, the failures in the first half and the opening kickoff pretty much did them in. It sucks as a 49ers fan because I believe they are a better team than the Ravens, but they didn't prove they were.

 

[sportstalent]

The SF/ATL game was worse on 4th down where White was held from the snap till the ball was thrown when the LB went through white to knock it down....it wasn't called there and was more obvious PI than this was.

I thought a call should have been made there as well...I am not sure it was any worse as the DB was playing off of Crabtree and Crabtree never had an opportunity to touch the ball, that was partly on the throw.