Posted on 02/05/2006 10:40:43 AM PST by Seattle Conservative
Edited on 02/05/2006 3:30:22 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
they should have given the steelers a bronze lombardi trophy.
Oh good grief. You complain about a holding that was called on Seattle and then complain about the fact that there should have been a holding call on the 75 rd run. If you are going to start bringing non-calls of holding into the discussion then you might just tip the scales of poor officiating in the other direction, but now complaining that the officials didn't take enough control of the game to enforce the rules on the Seattle O-linemen who got away with circumventing them nearly every time they were beaten by the defensive end or linebacker.
Has it ever occurred to you that the reason it appeared that the calls went against Seattle was because Seattle committed more penalties, which is why more were called against them. I bet after the Steelers got flagged for false starts twice on their first 3-and-out possession you weren't thinking "Oh boy, the refs are on our side tonight" were you.
The whiners are just like Al Gore and his sickos during the 'Seven Weeks of Hell' after G. W. won the 2000 election.
It's exactly the same thing. Most likely the loud *sshole whiners had Seattle and the points.
;-)
LOL ........... so true, P.
Took me a while to get to this.
I actually heard a lame-o Seattle apologist claiming that the Superbowl was fixed for the Steelers because Detroit would riot and burn if the Steelers lost (I paraphrase).
LOL .......... and yoi!
"I bet after the Steelers got flagged for false starts twice on their first 3-and-out possession you weren't thinking "Oh boy, the refs are on our side tonight" were you."
Actually, I was thinking. "These Steelers are overrated." After watching the game I'm convinced of it.
Apparently the oddsmakers don't even think the Steelers will get back. If they, and the Seahawks also do, they favor the Seahawks.
Of course, this picture will change greatly as the season unfolds.
It seems to me the bookmakers are saying they don't think the Steelers are all that great,
When all is said and done I am an original AFL Patriots ticket holder. If the Pats couldn't be there this year I am happy to see another AFC team win the Super Bowl.
I think the game was a stinker but I'm not unhappy. :-)
9/10s of winning the Super Bowl is getting there. First you've got to get to the playoffs (which is pretty much garaunteed for the Seahawks), then win 2 or 3 playoff games then win the SB.
Seems to me like the oddmakers are saying exactly what I'm saying, the AFC is ugly and just getting to the playoffs will be difficult for any team in there. Notice that the only team in the AFC with better odds than the Seahawks is the Colts, which I think is crazy talk but the sports talk crowd worship Manning so it's not entirely out of line.
It's over.....I can't believe there is still a thread in
latest posts.
check out this cartoon: http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/horsey/viewbydate.asp?id=1342
Hilarious! It was almost that obvious. Wasn't it.
I am a die-hard Skins fan and was kind of hoping that Bettis would get his ring to finish off his fabulous career. What happened in SB XL was atrocious and I hope for the good of the game it never happens again. Seattle had two TD's taken from them on bad calls, had a first and goal at the 2 taken back (that would have likely resulted in another score). Pittsburgh had the non-TD by Roethlisberger (by his own admission) and the TD from Randle El to Ward was after the bogus Hasselbeck low block call. Now Seattle had plenty of blown opportunities and executed bad clock management, but how in the heck could they have overcame all of that?
"It's over.....I can't believe there is still a thread in
latest posts."
I know!!!!!!!!!!! OMG
Also you could see from the beginning of the Rothlisberger "TD Run" play that Seattle didn't have enough defenders toward the left outside of the Steelers offensive line.
These misformations were due to coaching.
#28 failed to contain the outside on a few plays and also should have knocked down the Rothlisberger scramble and chuck pass that went to Hines Ward for a big play.
There were a number of plays with poor defensive containment of the outside, including the reverse to Hines Ward. Usually this is the responsiblity of the defensive end and/or the outside linebacker.
The league has confirmed that the Darrell Jackson pylon call was correct, so Wilbon's article has already been debunked, and he's misinterpreting the rules. The receiver has to have both feet established in bounds, regardless of whether or not the pylon is hit.
Roethlisberger only stated that he didn't think he got in, but the replay shows the tip of the ball crossing the goal line. Still, if Seattle hadn't given up a 3rd and 28, the Steelers would never have been down near the goal-line in the first place. It's Seattle's poor play that cost them the game, not the close calls.
Bookmarked for later read.
"Seems to me like the oddmakers are saying exactly what I'm saying, the AFC is ugly and just getting to the playoffs will be difficult for any team in there"
Since the AFC is so much better than the NFC as many on this and IIRC other NFL threads have been saying, amazing isn't it that the AFC LOST the Pro Bowl today :-)
Yeah pro-bowl games matter ;) Of course there's a difference between individual athletes and full teams, the NFC has a lot of good players, they're just not assembled into very many good teams.
None of the officiating issues occurred so late in the game (such as the Raiders/Patriots "Tuck Rule" game of January 19, 2002), as to effect the outcome.
Whatever your opinion of the officiating the fact remains that the losing Seahawks were not able to rise above their challenges. They were not of championship calibre on Super Bowl Sunday. The Steelers did enough on the field when they had to in order to win. The Seahawks didn't. No amount of whining is going to change that fact. Sore losers are becoming a national pandemic in the USofA.
Let's face it, the officials had a better game than the Seahawks.
Upon further review ...
... the Steeler victory on the field stands.
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