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The ref's fixing a game for personal profit is not only not ludicrous, but actually something that probably has already happened. Sports betting is huge in this country, and game-fixing is something that players and coaches have all been caught doing, at the highest level. One thing game fixers hope doesn't happen, is for people to look to closely at the possibility. They hope people will think it is ludicrous.

The Steelers did have some calls go against them, but no crucial-game changing calls. Every single crucial game changing call went against Seattle. Even if you think the block in the back on Rothliesberger after his interception was missed, that would only have resulted in a change in field position. That wasn't a game changer.
Seattle had a touchdown called back on a very questionable offensive pass interference, had a drive stalled on 3rd down in Pitts territory by a bad spot and had to punt, had a completion to Pitts 1 yard line called back on a phantom holding call (Madden didn't see holding on that play because there was no holding on the play, unless you subscribe to the theory that holding could be called on every play, but Surprise! No holding calls on the Steelers, just on the Seahawks in crucial situations. On all three of Pittsburg's big plays, no holding calls, including the scramble play on 3rd and long and the reverse halfback TD pass. How many times do you see holding called on those types of plays? More often than not, I'd say. How did that 78 yard running play open up so fast, on a play designed to get 3 yards? I'm sure there was no holding on that play)
Another mystery holding call on Seattle in the 4th as they are driving into Pitts territory, called back a completion and set up the sack then interception.
Pittsburg only penalized 3 times the whole game, and Seattle the least penalized team in the NFL all season, and all of a sudden they forget how to play, racking penalty after penalty and Pittsburg turns into choirboys??
Believe what you want, I'll always look at this game as tainted.
Someone should check to see if the refs make any large bank deposits in the next few weeks.

game-fixing is something that players and coaches have all been caught doing, at the highest level

Baloney. Nobody has "been caught" fixing an NFL game. I'm not saying it's never happened in the history of the game, but what you say is factually WRONG. If you are going to make a point, you have to start with the truth. If you can't state the truth to make your argument, then your case must not be strong.

Again, there were calls that went against Pittsburgh despite your denial and selective memory. On a 3rd-and-long, Pitt threw a pass downfield for an incomplete pass, only the refs threw a flag on Seattle for "helmet-to-helmet" contact. That would have give Pitt a FD in Seattle territory. Only the refs picked the flag up and Pitt had to punt. The replay showed that it was close and they certainly could have called it had they wanted to stay with the initial call. Who knows what would have happened had they given Pitt a FD. Maybe the Steelers score a TD, instead of punting. Jeremy Stevens fumbled the ball after making a catch, only the refs blew it dead and called it incomplete. The Steelers would have recovered the ball and did what with it? Who knows?