Posted on 02/06/2006 6:50:28 AM PST by RedBloodedAmerican
This is the space where I get to crow about the frightening precision of my Super Bowl prediction.
Where I get to remind everyone that I guaranteed the Steelers would win the title after they beat the Colts. That they were the only championship-caliber team among the final four. That they would dismantle the Broncos in Denver and waylay whomever the NFC sent at them.
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I've never felt so empty being right. I feel dirty. I wish I'd been wrong. The Steelers did not deserve to win this game. They were not the better team. O'Connor was right. Seattle was the better team.
So, Paul Tagliabue, how does a team lose when it outgains an opponent by 57 yards, controls time of possession and wins the turnover battle?
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Every single questionable, marginal or outright bad call went against the Seahawks....
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Pittsburg fans will see that he clearly broke the plane. Seattle fans will see that he was clearly short. The replay could be seen either way, which is why the call in the field stood.
The Steelers would still have punched it in for a TD on fourth-and-half-an-inch even if it was overturned.
I had forgotten about that. The missed (blatant) block in the back cost the Steelers far more yards than the bad "low block" call cost the 'hawks.
Well they say that no publicity is bad publicity, at least the officiating has people talking about the game, otherwise it was one of the more forgettable Super Bowls. (Atlanta-Denver, anyone?)
Nonsense. It clearly crossed the front infield edge, all it had to do.
And does Seattle get that touchdown if the run was called back?
The ref didn't signal touchdown until after he ran forward and saw where where Ben had scooted the ball forward after he was down. Shades of Vinny Testaverde!
You are right, it WAS a clip.
That's what people who object to the call are focusing on. The fact is, the refs got the call right in spite of themselves.
" I still don't get the "Offensive Pass Interference" call against the Seahawks (when they did get the ball into the end zone.)"
I am amazed there is controversy about this. It was a CLASSIC pushoff. Receiver and defender moving in one direction, receiver reverses direction, pushes against the defender and goes back to receive the pass. The push wasn't very hard but it was obvious.
IIRC - the interception and the missed clip led to a seahawk TD, correct? Hmmmm big play with a missed clip... ahhh the whine factor.
And the Ref was standing right there.
Who knows? Maybe it kills whatever momentum they had and Pittsburgh wins in a rout. Maybe Seattle gets a long scoring drive and turns the game's momentum in their favor, while wearing out the Pittsburgh "D".
The important thing is that it happened (or more to the point, didn't happen), and the result is the result.
The Steeler defender was also clutching Jackson as well. I've seen defensive pass interference called for less.
True. But when reminded of the facts, people will remember what a Turkey this game was.
Superbowl 38 seemed to start out like a Turkey, but in the second half became a great game...which people remember.
This game was just pathetic...sure Steelers win, good for them.
I thought the defender was clean on the play. Jackson initiated all of the contact.
HAHAHHAHA...that is an observation made watching the replay, maybe you should lay off the vision distorting illicit medications...eh?
Notice how none of the seahaw fans here are disputing the botched clip call on Roethlisberger... only focus on the questionable calls against their team.
Botched calls on both teams - not just the hawks. Get over it - Pittsburgh routed them in the second half - and an interception with a missed clip made it close...
Pittsburgh won - get on with your lives folks...
I'm just glad I'm not the guy that has to hit the button during the 7 sec. delay on Seattle sports call-in shows!
You will never eliminate the human factor from football. Even if the NFL took every possible step, guess what? Bad calls will still happen. True champions figure out how to overcome them. Seattle did not help themselves to overcome.
There was no single frame in the replay that showed any part of the ball breaking the goal-line, so I think there was room for the ref to overturn the call had he been so inclined; but the video did leave open the possibility that somehow, maybe between frames, a couple millimeters of the ball COULD have broken the plane. Good stuff.
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