{"id":81,"date":"2005-12-11T21:22:31","date_gmt":"2005-12-12T05:22:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yuriar.com\/wp\/?p=81"},"modified":"2005-12-11T21:22:31","modified_gmt":"2005-12-12T05:22:31","slug":"eagles-play-dirty-refs-paid-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/2005\/12\/11\/eagles-play-dirty-refs-paid-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Eagles play dirty&#8230;  Refs paid off?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><font face=\"Century Gothic\">I didn&#8217;t get to  see the game personally&#8230;.   But my dad, who is the biggest football  fan I know, watched it and gave me this report&#8230;  The Check Cleared.   He said there were several times when the ball would magically move up a yard  during commercial breaks.  Blatant attempts to outright injure NYG players,  with no penalties.  Strahan was held constantly with no calls going against  the Eagles.  But the worst, were the two penatlies that were called,  then just totally ignored&#8230;  <\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Century Gothic\">As reported to  me, there was a flag thrown against the Eagles, just before they kicked the  field goal at the half.  Giants head coach Tom Coughlin was seen making the  motion to accept the penatly and back the Eagles up.  Then a  commercial break, and when the game returned, there had been no penatly assesed,  and the Eagles were kicking a field goal to tie it up.  Even the announcers  of the game were thrown off, wondering what had happened to the penalty.   <\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Century Gothic\">The second time  such a thing happened, was reportedly the second to last Giants drive in the  OT.  An Eagles player grabbed Tiki Barber by his shoulder pads, and swung  him around and threw him to the ground.  A flag was thrown, unnecessary  roughness the call.  Then, the flag was picked up, and it was announced,  &#8220;There is no penalty on the facemask.&#8221;  Well duh! the flag wasn&#8217;t thrown  with concern to the face mask!  Very odd indeed. <\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Century Gothic\">Now  understandably, the game was played in Philly, which is one of the roughest  stadiums in the NFL.  But the Eagles haven&#8217;t a prayer of making the  playoffs, so why?  Why call such a horrid game?  Why ignore penalties  and blatant attempts to injure the opposing team?  <\/font><\/div>\n<div><font face=\"Century Gothic\">But that said,  the Giants won despite the refs and the Eagles.  though it was a costly  victory.  2 linemen, Luke Pettigout &amp; Kareen Mackensie, were injured,  as well as Middle Line backer Antonio Pierce and defensive tackle William Joseph  also had to leave early.  I can&#8217;t wait til next weekend! *S*  Starting  next weekend the Giants play on Saturdays and the local team (who I  despise) on Sundays, so I should get the rest of the season! Yea!   <\/font><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I didn&#8217;t get to see the game personally&#8230;. But my dad, who is the biggest football fan I know, watched it and gave me this report&#8230; The Check Cleared. He &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yuriar.com\/katp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}