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I know this...you cannot go mouthin' off like that in prison!  Well, you could, but........

It is beyond a disappointment when you invidiously downgrade and disparage your own team mate(s) who happen to play the same position by declaring yourself the best.  What a @#$%^^&# maroon! Doesn't matter even if everyone in the locker room believes it, not nice "team" representation to publicly be so indiscriminately blatant a bozo...   Send that buffoon to minor league pro wrestling circuit A.S.A.P.  Is THAT where NFL football is now? Seems it often... Wish they would stop impinging on the sanctity of pro wrestling with these antics!

Bad enough the Bowman injury and incorrect field call for possession, and yes, that was THE game changer...but if anyone needs proof the NFL needs to address many practical game adjustments, including just EXACTLY what is possession and the concise definition of fumble and "Down" in regards to recovery...and that damnable "review process," there it was! It is granted one has an even greater possibility of even greater injury in playoff football than prior games, but to have a double whammy of the obviously bad call adding insult to injury...

Notice that both teams "progressing" on both have legalized recreation cannabis use as their respective state laws allow...on to the Stupor Bowl! A flying flaming Hindenberg sized joint will be landing at halftime...which will be extended by an extra 30 minutes to clear the concession lines completely...

Just not advisable to bet against any team Peyton Manning is QBing...

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

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Given the play I mention-I don't like anyone "stripping" the ball instead of tackling, so Bowman got more than he bargained for.  And it could be said it is a moot point about the fumble as it was ruled in "better" SF favor as it was from downs, but I am objective about the game.  He was DOWN with possession closer to the goal line, and THAT affords an opportunity for greater pressure on the 49ers offense to avoid the Seahawks gaining redemption with a safety...remember I am a 49er fan, but fair is fair...Plus him down and injured but no baloney with the call makes it, fans perspective, a more "heroic" injury, one with no bad after taste for either team.  But please, STOP STRIPPING THE BALL and just tackle...

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Peanut Tillman has made that into an art form.

It is too easy to accomplish to be proud of or call an art form...especially when a team mate is just as likely the one impeding initial forward progress by slamming protected and unprotected muscle and bone against the attackers, and the whistle just "hasn't blown" just yet, so the cowardly lion strikes, often like taking candy from a baby  There's essentially only 2 moves, that one, and the sledgehammering fist to the ball or carrier's arm(s).  Make it interesting, let offensive backs and receivers grown long nails.  Why not? All else except any head rocking (? every player, every play-since............remember the "bell-ringer"?!) has come to get the old school Raiders squeal of delightful approval as "legal"  football...hockey players would surely approve of that tact for a receiver to "always" be able to make their cuts...so to speak...

I got nothing against Da Bears, I'd just take a guy who can do something really talented, like run a kickoff or punt back for a touchdown, any Sunday of the weak.

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

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Tillman is much more than a guy who is the best out there at stripping the ball. In fact, he has generally recognized as one of the best corners in the league and has been for some time (not the best evidently, since we were told who the best is on Sunday). I view the ball strip the same way I view the interception...an exciting momentum swing and an integral part of the game.
Perhaps the ball carriers should take better care of the rock.

Yeah, I knew all along it didn't impact the game by itself when fumble 2 occurred as some kind of cosmic mea culpa.  Officiating had already impacted the game, moreso than the 12th man (at that point).  But to CLEARLY have possesssion yet lose not only the call AND a star player, but having to suffer further denial of challenge, which is in place to falsely protect offiiciating "integrity" when the real reason is at least a 50-50 chance the wrong call is made and don't want to broadcast THAT.   Seahawks won the game outright, no questioning outcome or bemoaning it would've been different under most any circumstances.  Being the dirtiest team, BY FAR, in the NFL, they did nothing to change the status, although they were definitely playing their cleanest game of the year.  Good Luck to the Seahawks, I am pulling for NFC West as the best division still, but I think they better win or else the whole young QB approach is up for debate.  The better team will win, but we all know guys like Peyton Manning can be a one man team at times when he is unstopppable, which is usually.  Points or punt, what do you usually see with Denver...........I don't like Denver this year.  Seahawks by 12.

Bill, I am always an advocate of you will lose the football if you don't protect it like Ft. Knox.  HOWEVER, stipping the ball, especially in these "modern" (they are not, have always been part of football) scrums, where resorting to tactics resembling street gangs' violence pretty much tells you the mindset of some of these so-called world-class athletes.  It's time for the union to step in and do some blasted training on SPORTSMANSHIP and SAFETY!  Shape 'em up or ship 'em back to the streets where they can live the street to prison life by rightfully yearning it instead of being glad-handed multi-millions to be a hired thug for someone whose business practices are probably suspect themselves somewhere along the lines.  The game is smelling real bad these days!  A lot of the fans also.  Rant paused...Tillman is a fantastic player, just the stripping aspect is boring and lame conversation fodder for me.  I'd rather see arms around the back of the legs, helmet drivng to the midsection and the opposing physical forces resulting in a lot of noises and a defender's stick tackle forcing a fumble.  To pull it baby delivery gently away while some 300#+ goon has the guy's facemask heading backwards whether holding it or not as another player purposely  digs cleats into the guys foot is just ugly wrong.  Players today have been taught to cheat and also to move playground tactics to an "art form." Please, it is not.  And if anyones considers today's brand of football clean, then let's move forward with the long nails, and allow biting, scratching, hair pulling, facemasks, holding allowed for EVERYONE, tackling before pass gets there, pushing at all times in the secondary, jersey grabbing, late hits to include kicking and stepping on down players...think of the FUN!

I feel better now.  Maybe I WILL change habits and watch figure skating (oh the humanity! What have I said?!) instead...

Rock the whatever,
Rocket

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"Everybody wants ta get inta the act!"
“Now, this isn’t your ordinary party crowd, here.  I mean, there are professionals in here.”

I love Tillman as a player Bill, LOVE to have him on my team.  He just wouldn't be stripping balls.  He'd show he has them EVERY play when I, as owner, offered him a $250,000 instant bonus buy every fumble he caused by tackling somebody open field.  I bet he'd be an even more daunting an opponent...might even get to the point where super slow motion shows some sad sack gettin' the old potato sack tackle from Tillman and actually fumbling the ball when he closed his eyes EVEN BEFORE GETTING HIT.  That's my kind of respected football player, both he and sad sack!

I do confess I love seeing Jim Harbaugh blow a gasket in a (every) game!  Got to respect somebody willing to commit frighteningly frantic foolish follies for public consumption, done with zero regret, too!   Much better than an omnipresent scowl of a Bill Belichick...

And biting...NOW we're talking exactly what football needs to do.  Remove that facemask and allow biting at all times!  Hockey players losing teeth? HAH! Try losing a nose on (replacement) for size.  I can hear Mike Tyson half-heartedly cheering as a color commentator, in his high-pitch voice saying "I like the biting, Tom, but they shoen't be doin' dthat, biting nose pieces off!" "Draw a li'l blood out, sewer, but you gots to go crazy doin' dthat shtuff!" "I know, you know?!"  "Yes sir, I do!"

Rock ON & Keep the Faith,
Rocket

"He still doesn't charge for mistakes! "
http://jbonamassa.com/tour-dates/
"Everybody wants ta get inta the act!"
“Now, this isn’t your ordinary party crowd, here.  I mean, there are professionals in here.”

Any pickers out there?
Manning is a master. Broncs by 10.
Side note: A pal of mine is a retired Raider LB from the great years. His opinion of Sherman? He should watch his blindside since disrespect is an invitation to a lesson in manners.
Rick