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:	post by xmikex at 2013-01-14 09:05:26

Was anyone else wondering just what the fuck Phil Simms was talking about the whole game? With a few exceptions I don't often think that commentators are biased, or really anything but people who like to hear their own voice.

But the Foster non-touchdown in the 2nd quarter, and the non-timeout right before the half were infuriating. "Well it's really impossible to see where the ball was when he knee went down..." There's his knee. There's the ball. And there's a 250 lb linebacker in between the ball and the goal line. They pull out the overhead camera where the entire play is obscured by bodies and Simms says "Oh well now I'm not so sure he didn't have the touchdown." Because now that the indisputable evidence of him not getting the touchdown is gone it looks a lot more convincing.

The timeout at the end of the half was the worst though. Daniels catches the ball with a second left. Goes to the ground. And then 2 or 3 seconds later the whistle blows. I realize the CBS game clock isn't official, and sound takes time to travel. But Simms goes out of his way to say "I heard the whistle blow for a timeout and then looked and saw 2 seconds on the clock." Lie. No other way around it.

Simms opened his mouth and said something that he knew wasn't true just to have something to say. And when CBS' own replay showed he was wrong (by a lot) he still didn't own up to it. I'm usually content to just be bored stiff with his Al Gore-ish "color" commentary but he was on another level last night.

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