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Originally Posted by thehef
Nope. In fact a) Browns fans would be the ones pissed at the non-call, and b) I don't particularly like either team. I just don't like refs swallowing their whistle at key moments, and/or generally making poor calls/non-calls. At any rate, to each his own, but I can't see how anyone could look objectively look at a replay and not see PI. But hey, if we have Angel Hernandez calling baseball games and dozens of incompetent NBA refs, there are surely fans & other observers out there making similarly incompetent judegment calls 
I also found another angle of the play that shows that - despite the pulling of the jersey by the the Steelers' DB Porter, Browns' WR Peoples-Jones' left hand came maybe 3 inches from contacting the ball as it was sailing past him. So any contention that the pass was uncatchable - which the refs did not indicate - would not be valid. |
After finding a better angle, and watching it in slow motion, now I see it. But I can totally see how a ref might not call that at full speed. Unless you're totally sure, you don't want to gift a team new life. It's also possible the ref didn't see the DB grab his jersey. Because they usually call that. As seen at the end of the last SB.