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How in the world did we start 25 minutes late (due to the fire on the field), and end up finishing before most of the other 1:00 games? I'm not saying there's a conspiracy or anything, it just seemed really weird. Was there a ton of penalties in all of the other games?
 
The ******* field caught on fire from the Devil's pyro - I knew that was a bad omen
 
Spike said:
The ******* field caught on fire from the Devil's pyro - I knew that was a bad omen
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LOL, I was thinking the EXACT same thing. Just felt a bad omen all the way around.
 
Meh the fix was in on the under... clocks were rigged and they tried to burn the field down to make it slower...lol
 
Id seriously guess the real reason was that there were fewer TV breaks due to them being behind. Notice how little NFL and network comercials played during the game? There were some, but not the overkill as usual.
 
Those of you who don't think there is GAME manipulation, are naive. Virtually every nfl game has some manipulation with in it. Weather clock / play / refs / or just flat out cheatriots, it is manipulation. To much money at stake to let go to chance.




Salute the nation
 
I noticed the same thing wondering how the Eagles game could still be at halftime while we were kicking off the 3rd already and we started 30 minutes later. I don't think it's a coincidence that the Steelers game magically ended on time since CBS was assigned the double-header to broadcast a 4:15 game also. Somewhere someone in the internet world has to be doing a time comparison of the games to be able to explain how this could happen. Would be interesting to see.
 
madinsomniac said:
Id seriously guess the real reason was that there were fewer TV breaks due to them being behind. Notice how little NFL and network comercials played during the game? There were some, but not the overkill as usual.
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Excellent point, I didn't think of that.
 
The first half moved quickly because the Steelers had long drives. Not much scoring, not too many penalties. No coaches' challenges. I think the Rams took all 3 timeouts into halftime.
 
I noticed this too. Think we had less tv timeouts and the long drives helped. The fire was a bad omen of things to come
 
nitsuj1225 said:
I noticed the same thing wondering how the Eagles game could still be at halftime while we were kicking off the 3rd already and we started 30 minutes later. I don't think it's a coincidence that the Steelers game magically ended on time since CBS was assigned the double-header to broadcast a 4:15 game also. Somewhere someone in the internet world has to be doing a time comparison of the games to be able to explain how this could happen. Would be interesting to see.
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Seriously? I've missed almost half of games because the early game ran late. I'm sure everybody else has too. So why this week? Some games last longer because of penalties, challenges, TOs, spiking the ball at the end of a game, ETC.... No reason for a conspiracy.
 
I remember we had a game recently where they didn't have any commercials for almost a half of football. It was amazing.
 
One of the reasons was also the lack of scoring. Think about the NFL and their commercial breaks. TD.XP.Commercial. Kickoff.Commercial. When there are a total of 5 scores and then you have NE hanging a ton and Atlanta Dallas shooting it out. Plus other high scoring games, that probably made up half of the time lost to pyrogate.
 
Also lack of incomplete passes to stop the clock. Ben was on fire that first half, he finished with just 4 incompletions probable didn't have more than 2 the first half. Long drives, plays in bounds, few penalties, no incompletes, no time outs, and no tv time outs can turn a 15 minute quarter into close to actually 15 minutes.
 
The officials were told to speed up the game and not throw so many flags was obvious for the first half.
 
Drink IRON City said:
Those of you who don't think there is GAME manipulation, are naive. Virtually every nfl game has some manipulation with in it. Weather clock / play / refs / or just flat out cheatriots, it is manipulation. To much money at stake to let go to chance.
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What are you suggesting? Weather? Really?
 
Drink IRON City said:
Those of you who don't think there is GAME manipulation, are naive. Virtually every nfl game has some manipulation with in it. Weather clock / play / refs / or just flat out cheatriots, it is manipulation. To much money at stake to let go to chance.




Salute the nation
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so if manipulation of games is rampant because there's "too much money to lose", why do you still watch?
 
SteelerAl said:
The first half moved quickly because the Steelers had long drives. Not much scoring, not too many penalties. No coaches' challenges. I think the Rams took all 3 timeouts into halftime.
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Steelers went in with 2 TOs on the board too. And why did they do that? I have no idea. Tight game, had the ball, but Tomlin and Co. instead decide, ahh, **** it, let's go to half time. I get that Ben had just gotten sacked. But it was 2nd down from the 25 with something like 55 seconds left and supposedly you have one of the most prolific offenses and leading by just 6 they decide to eat clock. Whatever.
 
I said the exact same thing during the game thread. Must have been the running and dink and dunking to keep the clock going or there was some funny business going on.
 
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