By Padraig Herring with commentary by Declan, Aiden and our Socialites.


Last week we saw a new President talk to us about the change that will sweep our nation and how we as Americans have much to look forward to.  I for one am hoping that Mr. Prez is going to make good on his promise of Obamanosing the BCS and getting us some much needed college playoffs.  We also witnessed the impact that the economy is having on us because going into the Superbowl frenzy last week there were still ad space left for people that wanted to advertise during the superbowl.  Our team all over the US decided that we were going to use all forms of free communication to keep in touch with each other during the game and so things like Skpe (www.skpe.com), Twitter (www.twitter.com) Facebook (www.facebook.com) and Digg (www.digg.com) were used as our way to talk smack about the game, send photos and chime in on what we thought were going to be some great Superbowl commercials.  While our team in Chicago were made up of Steeler fans, our team in Atlanta really did not have an opinion.  Our loan wolf out in Austin had a different opinion as she is from the west and hoped for a huge Kurt Warner comeback and Seattle Socialites were just hoping for a really great game.

We did not see some real fireworks until the last quarter of the game when the Cardinals decided that enough was enough and came on with a vengeance.  The reaction from people online to the Non-Review of the alleged fumble by Kurt Warner in the last few seconds of the game was fast and furious in the chat rooms, Twitter feeds and by all of us sitting at the places where we were watching the game.  Immediate review was what we thought we were going to get, but when it did not happen we were stunned and I am not the only one that thought the night was marred by bad refereeing and was the field level at this point?  Chris Chase of Sunday Showdown in an article from yesterday indicates  that "the 11 penalties whistled on Arizona included a preposterous roughing the passer penalty on a play that wouldn't have been uncommon in touch football. That came on a drive that saw two personal foul penalties on the Cards, one of which gave the Steelers another chance to score from the goal line. For the evening, 18 penalties were called, the third-most in Super Bowl history. A missed call may have proven enormous also. After Santonio Holmes' game-winning touchdown catch he did an imitation of LeBron James' chalk move. Using the ball as a prop is an automatic 15-yard penalty on the kickoff." http://tinyurl.com/cqdd22.  The people of www.fannation.com were talking up a storm about how in the world on how that play was not reviewed http://tinyurl.com/cojclc.  and our people in Seattle were shaking their heads all last night while we here in Atlanta were stunned by the bad calls. Our girl (Declan) out in Austin sent us a link to the local paper http://tinyurl.com/cgttkq that does not even talk about the blunders of the game at all!  She was not happy about the call and was later lamenting that those refs might be part-timers for the BCS because the VP of the NFL did not look at the play until after the game!  Anthony Salter from www.scoresreport in his post this morning http://tinyurl.com/cruvyv that came across the Austin feed this morning reported on just that fact.

Whether it was bad calls, poor playing or just bad time management on the part of everyone it is time that we have a clear and consise plan of attack when it comes to reviews!  We just do not need another snafu like you saw with the BCS prompting our President to call for a playoff system because what is in place is not working!