“Not this junk again. The penalties that were called were legit.”
Sorry, Pal, but when you have referees who are told (or want to) give the game to the Steelers, then that’s the kind of football you get . . . calling a penalty (a totally made-up penalty) on the Seahawk quarterback for tackling the guy who intercepted his throw, then you know the game was given to the Steelers. That was the most lopsided game I’ve ever seen. The NFL didn’t want the Seahawks to win that game because the marketing would have been miserable due to the fact that the Seahawks are an isolated team (2,500 miles from another team) and the Steelers . . . well, they deserved it . . . so we’ll make up penalties, put on blinders and take the game away from their opponents. That’s the way the Steelers play (well, they don’t really have to play). Referees will play the game for them. I’ll bet the Seattle fans are still furious at that farce of a Super Bowl.
We've been getting hosed by the refs all year. 13-1 against us in the first San Diego game.
You're dreaming if you think the refs gave the Steelers Super Bowl XL. Sounds like a lot of sour grapes to me. If the Seahawks fans are furious it should be at their incompetent wideouts, loud mouth tight end, loser QB, inaccurate kicker, and brain-dead coach.
The call on Hasselbeck was a legitimate call of a stupid rule and had absolutely no effect on the outcome of the game. The Steelers still had the ball and Seahawks defense couldn't stop them.
Actually that exact same call got mad against Big Ben in the regular season, it’s not totally made up, it was a bad rule. The problem was they (Ben in the regular season and Matt in the SB) had a blocker between them and the ball carrier and they went way low, the league was trying to get rid of cut blocks that year. A crappy rule, but not made-up, and kind of karmic that the Steelers got bit by it in the regular season and then benefited from it in the SB.
There isn’t marketing AFTER the SB. That’s a silly reason to think they wouldn’t want a team to win.
Sorry but you’re just wrong. The reality is the Seahawks played poorly, they had their worst 3rd down conversion percentage of the season that game, heck they had their most 3rd downs of the season that game. Dropped tons of passes, just didn’t play well.
ROFL! Now there's a factoid for ya!
Aside from the fact that your knowledge of geography is very poor, what is the logic in your charge?
What 'marketing' are you talking about? How does the NFL make money on the SB winner after the game is over?
I can understand the TV networks who pay very big bucks years in advance for SB broadcast rights wanting two big market teams in the game just to increase viewership, but SB XL was between two smaller market teams. But once the teams are decided, I fail to see how the league or the networks can increase their revenues by fixing the outcome.
Please explain.