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Chargers at Steelers(-4.5)

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iambrutus;1329525; said:
his pick was probably the coolest play i've ever seen. he is by far my favorite NFL player, just balls out every play and never do you hear anything about him off the field.
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Ditto that. I hate the Steelers, but man is he fun to watch. Just an awesome player.
 
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No, I don't believe the final play in the Steelers-Chargers game is scandalous. The referee, Scott Green, made a mistake. A $66 million mistake, but a mistake nonetheless. The Cliffs Notes version of the story (full AP write-up, with Green's comments, here):
With five seconds remaining, trailing 11-10, the Chargers, on their own 21, tried one of those wacky, multiple-lateral plays to keep the ball alive. LaDainian Tomlinson caught a pass, flipped it to Chris Chambers, who then tried to pitch it to a teammate. Steelers safety Troy Polamalu broke it up, scooped up the football and ran in for an apparent TD. After a review, Green announced the play was upheld and the TD counted. But the officials huddled again before the Steelers extra-point attempt and changed the call, declaring Tomlinson's lateral to be an illegal forward pass which should have ended the play.
The problem is the Steelers were very heavy betting favorites in this game. One Vegas bookie said last night that $100 million was bet on this game alone, with $66 million of that bet on the Steelers. The Steelers were four-point favorites. Instead of winning 17-10 or 18-10, the Steelers won 11-10. Thus they didn't cover, much to the angst of gamblers around the United States. The call led to the conspiracy theory that somebody must have been in on the action to influence such a gigantic swing in the betting line. I don't buy it. I would never buy it for two reasons: 1) There are too many safeguards in place that would cause the ruination of too many people -- the officiating crew, those in the league office who supervise and regulate the officials all the way up to the highest offices of the NFL -- whose lives and careers would be forever tarnished for a few million dollars. 2) There is also the sheer impossibility of inventing some sort of fix like this to consider. How do you make up a play like that and get the word to the officials to call it a certain way? There's no way.

Eleven opinions in NFL's Week 11 - Peter King - SI.com
 
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