From Will Leitch’s personal blog today:
UPDATE (2:30pm PT): Just saw this in the ARIZONA REPUBLIC, on a tip from Jamie Mottram:
And yet another seemingly definitive photo of the play after the jump.
Well, it appears that Holmes did indeed get his right foot down. He either dragged it before the above two shots, or after those photos were taken.
1:59 pm on February 4th, 2009
Looks like the picture Greg Brady shot and blew up in his little darkroom
2:14 pm on February 4th, 2009
Nice to see Will has his own Zapruder cam.
2:17 pm on February 4th, 2009
It looks like the review booth did all the Zaprudering for him. Thanks for the link love on the Super Bowl Porn blurb.
2:21 pm on February 4th, 2009
Back…and to the left. Back…and to the left.
2:22 pm on February 4th, 2009
Does Will also have a zoomed-in close-up of that porn guy's wiener?
2:24 pm on February 4th, 2009
bull, take a look here
2:24 pm on February 4th, 2009
http://d.yimg.com/a/p/sp/getty/98/fullj.3917e638fc175409ec80eaf28e85ac44/3917e638fc175409ec80eaf28e85ac44-getty-80670228zz305_super_bowl_xl.jpg
2:25 pm on February 4th, 2009
That close-up could have been taken a few frames after Santonio already had both feet down.
2:33 pm on February 4th, 2009
In the meantime, Reebook is getting all sorts of free advertising out of this.
2:36 pm on February 4th, 2009
This doesn't prove anything. Where's the football at? Is this after his foot already touched down?
Don't became Seattle. You lost, Arizona, move on.
2:39 pm on February 4th, 2009
The fact of the matter is that there's not enough blatant evidence to reverse the original touchdown call. Had the officials originally ruled it incomplete, the whole city of Pittsburgh would be burned to the ground by now.
3:26 pm on February 4th, 2009
AZCentral has this "conspiracy" plot playing out. Check photo 10, then don't miss the exciting conclusion of photo 12.
http://www.azcentral.com/closeup/articles/0203spt-closeupholmestd.html
Know what that's called? It's called a catch.
3:56 pm on February 4th, 2009
Sorry, 10 and 12 do not show definitively it was a TD, it's a bad angle.
6:11 pm on February 4th, 2009
its old!!!!!!!!!!!!
12:54 am on February 5th, 2009
hey "guest" his foot doesnt look like its touching the ground in that picture. It looks like it was taken at the same time photo 2 was
1:34 am on February 5th, 2009
I wanna see the video the guy in frame 8 has…
7:59 am on February 5th, 2009
How do those sour grapes taste?
8:17 am on February 5th, 2009
Greg, then I suggest you move your chair to the right. :-) Picture 12 shows the right tip of the shoe making contact with the field.
What I haven't heard is any of the talking heads mention, is Fitzgerald running the last 40 yards of Harrison's return out-of-bounds and still being out-of-bounds, WHILE trying to tackle Harrison. I heard Marcellus Wiley blame Antrel Rolle for getting in Fitzgerald's way by not being behind the line. But the point is, it was easier to run the clear lane, out-of-bounds, instead of on the field, where he would have been blocked.
9:12 am on February 5th, 2009
Not sure if they have photo review technology this detailed under the hood. Be proud of your team for getting to the big game. You could be from Detroit you know bitching about how they can't win one stupid friggin game out of 16…Christ there I go again
10:14 am on February 5th, 2009
NOBODY CARES!!!!!!
11:50 am on February 5th, 2009
Would not be an issue if the AZ defense hadn't folded during the last drive.
3:45 pm on February 5th, 2009
Maybe there should be a rematch? I guarantee the Cards will figure out how to lose that one, too.
5:18 pm on February 5th, 2009
Wait.
You mean the Steelers "won" a big game with ref help?
Shocking.