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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Us Dallas Stars fans had to put up with the same crap from Sabres fans after we won the Stanley Cup. As if they just knew they were going to win game six anyway, even if Hull's goal was disallowed, AND game 7 in Dallas.
Amen!
7-0, not 10-0. Seattle kicked the field goal after they were caught cheating on the "touchdown".
Like when Reggie Bush pushed his man into the endzone right in front of the Ref during the decisive play in the Trojans vs. ND game this year? Ooooops, I killed your conspiracy theory...
Usually only at home games. It's also like playing in Yankee Stadium of the Montreal Forum.
Look at the photo of the writer of this foolish article. That should say it all ....... he's a funny-looking, pencil-necked, dinky dweeb ............. who knows nothing about COMPETING in sports.
Yeah...they won a game that bordered on comedy...lots to be proud of.
The whole ball or just part of the ball? You see where I'm going here, right?
Then came Pittsbugh's first touchdown. Whether you think Roethlisberger broke the plane of the goal line seems to depend on which team you were rooting for. The odd part was the line judge seemed to have determined that Big Ben had come up short as he ran in from the sideline. Since Roethlisberger had been pushed back well short of the goal line I don't know what he could have seen as he got closer to the pile that would have made him change his mind.
It made Super Bowl V look like a masterpiece.
Who is upholding that call? I dont know anyone that says that was a good call.
Even I, in my general ignorance of pro sports could see that the refs in the Super Bowl were completely out to lunch.
I've heard announcers point out before that in championship games, the refs will either tighten-up the foul calling, or loosen up what they'll call - but they need to do it for both teams.
It seemed pretty clear that the refs were letting the Steelers get away with stuff they weren't allowing Seattle to get away with.
Refs have bad days, too. SO?
Wasn't my theory.
Well .............. that gets a flag..............
Like what? Let's be specific, here, if you're going to throw that kind of statement around.
Although I'm delighted that the Steelers won, I still don't get the "Offensive Pass Interference" call against the Seahawks (when they did get the ball into the end zone.)
I feel like I am making excuses, because my team certainly made it's share of mistakes but the officiating in this SB was worse than I can remember. No way was the Steelers QB TD a TD. No way. And the call against Darrell Jackson in the end zone? If that is pushing off then they need to calling that a hell of a lot more during the regular season because guys are doing that in every game every week of the year and not getting called, ie:Keyshawn Johnson. The holding call that wasn't? It's called a pancake block ref, look it up. Flagging Hasslebeck for "blocking below the waist?" HE WAS MAKING A TACKLE YOU MORON REF!!!!
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