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I don't think anyone will debate the BBW call. However, the OPI was a good call in my book. I'm all for letting them play...and had that contact occured 2 seconds before it did, I would have held my flag. In this instance you have a reciever clearly gaining seperation and an advantage a fraction of a second before the ball is caught. It may have not been a visable reaction by the defender, but IMHO the defender could have been in position to at least deflect the ball had the arm not been used by the reciever.
When it coumes down to it, most of these are judgement calls. Is the same for all of us that wear the stripes. Do you call a minor hold on a wide out when he's getting blocked at the line and the play is a dive up the middle? no. Do you call a Jr. High game as tight as you call a varsity? I suspect not. This was the Super Bowl. A match up between the two best teams in the league. There is no excuse for not calling the game as tight as it was called. And the calls that were made (O-line holding that brought back a TD and the OPI) were infractions that occured and gave the offending team a distinct advantage.
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