[Echo Talon]

don't think the officiating was as bad as you think it was. Some bad calls on both sides (but then again, what game doesn't have its bad call or two?). All in all, the Seahawks may have played better statistically...but when it actually counted, they didn't play well enough.

What were the bad calles against pit? I knew seattle had a TD taken away, Pit got a TD given to them, Seattle passed to the 1 yrd line for 1st down and that was taken away from them. A very strange penalty against Hasselbeck for tackling low? no idea what that was.

[Ultra Sonic 007]

Seattle passed to the 1 yrd line for 1st down and that was taken away from them.

Is that where the reciever caught the ball with his left in bound but he stepped out of bounds with his right? That was a correct call.

[discostu]

A Seattle receiver clearly made a catch and fumble with nothing but Steelers around to grab the ball and that was called an incomplete pass, that's A BIG one that went against the Steelers. The Seattle offender CLEARLY and OBVIOUSLY interefered, the holding call was correct. The Steelers had that EXACT SAME penalty called on them twice in the regular season (low block is the official thing, I disagree because in all three instances the low blocker was trying to get through another blocker and make a tackle but how they called it in the SB was consistent with how they called it in the regular season).

Officiating wasn't great, but it didn't take the game away from Seattle. Being 5 for 17 on 3rd down conversions took the game away from Seattle.

[kevkrom]

I knew seattle had a TD taken away,

Because the receiver cheated -- while it doesn't get called often enough, it was the right call. He was open for the TD only because he pushed off from the defender.

Pit got a TD given to them,

Call on the field was a TD. The replay was inconclusive -- I would say it was not clear enough to overturn the call either way (i.e., had it been ruled short, the replay would not have been enough for a TD, either). Pittsburgh would likely have gotten the 0.1 inch needed on 4th down anyway.

Seattle passed to the 1 yrd line for 1st down and that was taken away from them.

Again, because they weree cheating. The O-line couldn't stop the pass rush except by holding Steelers players. Hassleback never would have gotten the pass off if his blockers weren't holding the guy about to kill him.

Whine all you like, the Seahawks lost because they were outplayed when it mattered, and made more mental mistakes at key times.