Refs made it an 'Extra Lame' bowl

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[Doc Savage]

Your rationale is ridiculous. "When the time came Pittsburgh came through.....???????????????????? Sure they did. They had every advantage given tto them by the refs including field position, downs, penalties, call-backs, mystery calls.

Play the game even and Seattle won the game 24-21. Play it your way and mental disease is exposed!

[Hacksaw]

What the hell is the statute of limitations on being a post-Super-Bowl crybaby? I'm really starting to get embarrassed for the Seattle fans.

I guess Seattle fans want to handle the Super Bowl the same way they handle elections.

[bannedfromdu]

I wish you Seattle fans would start serving some cheese with your WHINE.

You latte drinking wienies would have a better chance of winning the Brokeback Bowl.

[dead]

I think the entire city of Seattle has a little bit of sand in their collective vagina.

The need to have a spritz and get on with their lives.

[Doc Savage]

Liberals??? What the hell did you do? Check voting records at the gate??? What a lame statement. I'm a Bear fan. They played poorly and deserved to lose. I have no stake in either SB team, but Seattle had the game and momentum stolen from them. You want to tlk about whining??? Try watching the replay of the steeler CB who was beaten in the end zone screaming and crying to the ref for a late flag,...and if he didn't get it he was going to take his ball and go home!

Your post is pathetic. Take a hint!

[Hacksaw]

It must be infuriating to know that just about every talking head FIRST mentions the biased officiatiing.

Not really. We had bad calls against Indy and still won.

You can bet one thing Petro... Forever this will be tainted to all but you ironheads.

Unfortunately, the Super Bowl isn't like a Washington election where you keep doing it over until you win. One for the thumb!

[burzum]

They STOLE ** 14 POINTS from the Hawks.

They stole 7 points from the Seahawks and gave the Steeler's a TD they didn't earn. But I'm fairly confident that with the ball on the 1 yard line, they Steeler's would have gotten the TD anyways. That's why I think it was about 10 points taken away (where I think the Seahawks could have made at least a try for a FG with the misc. penalties).

I should note that I was watching the game closely but took frequent smoke breaks so I might have missed another dubious call. But this is what I remember: 3 horrible calls (others are minor), where 2 affected scoring but one would have resulted in the Steeler's TD anyways.

[Petronski]

Such a liberal attitude from a liberal city: no sense of personal responsibility, just broad accusations of being kept down by The Man.

Somehow Seattle isn't responsible for idiotic clock management or two missed field goals or atrocious punting or constantly kicking off through the endzone or dropped passes or just generally being outscored. What about converting 5 for 17 on third down? What about getting completely fooled by the gadget pass by Randle El? The missed tackles on Willie Parker?

Isn't Seattle responsible for anything?

Seattle fans need to get a life and step away from the "Selected, not Elected" rhetoric. All this counting of penalties and adding/subtracting scores sounds just like David Boies before the Florida Supreme Court. You're one step away from blaming the loss on instant-replay machines built by Diebold and scoreboards by Halliburton!

[kimoajax]

Disputed calls are one thing, but when I taped the program and took the time to review, pause an step-through frame by frame the ball spotting by the refs, they repeatedly, especially when it counted most, shorted Seattle and advantaged Pittsburg. The most obvious case was the one where Hasselback ran for what was clearly sufficient for a first down. When the refs moved (spotted) the ball, sure enough, you could see they moved it back about a foot at least from where it should have been so that it ended up short by 6 inches or so. A picture tells it all. Way beyond the perhaps arguable bad or missed calls, the "fix" was dialed in for Pittsburg from the start.

[Terpfen]

One thing these threads show well is the collective graciousness, class, and attitude of Pittsburgh fans.

There ain't much.

[stop_fascism]

Have some cheese and crackers with your whine.

[fat city]

Sorry dude, you got punked by the NFL- the fix was on to pay Cowher back for 13 years of dragging the best talent in the league into oblivion. You were just the Washington Generals in this one. The Huskies will take the PAC 10 before the Seahawks are back in the Game. Forget the NFL- you can never beat the refs. I'm from Cleveland- we tried & they just banned beer bottles in the stadium.

[BW2221]

Don't forget poor coaching by Mike Holmgren.

[Petronski]

You're such a . . . victim!

Your tears are delicious!

[MikefromOhio]

you're wrong.

The rule states that when the QB slides FEET FIRST, the spot is where the slide BEGAN.

I know the play you are talking about. The Wife asked the same thing and she knows nothing about football.

[M1911A1]

BS. The Steeler victory is not tainted, not in the least.

They won, with the conditions that prevailed on the field. That's football, and this is coming from a long time Seahawks fan.

The officiating sucked. Not the Steeler's fault. Some Steeler fans are trying to naysay this, and some Seahawks fans are being poor sports.

In a game where a lot of the penalties are essentialy judgment calls, the refs managed to seem one sided. Almost all the game altering calls can be defended or assailed on technical or judgmental levels. Nature of the game.

Better officials would have dispensed thier judgment in a manner that did not seem so one-sided. There are individual calls that I do or don't agree with, but for a majority of neutral fans it appeared imbalanced.

For the sake of what-if, let's say the refs had "found" an infraction on the Steeler 75 yard run or not called what really was an optional hold on Locklear when Seattle appeared to have first and goal. IMHO, Steelers still win, because my beloved 'Hawks were not making plays they needed to make when the flags stayed in the pocket, and instead of the uproar about one-sided officiating, you would have a majority saying, "it evened out".

There will always be a minority who scrutinize every call looking for excuses. The problem with XL is it seemed lopsided. Throw in some pretty obvious blown calls and you have a stench. Is that the Steeler's fault?

Congrats to the Steelers, NFL Champs, no asterisk in my book. Shame on the poor judgment of the judges. Officiating is as much art as science, and they blew both disciplines.

[burzum]

I sense much anger in your post. Being that I'm in Seattle and hearing the liberal whining, I'll stand by my statement. The fact that you think I called you a whiner is perhaps indicating that you wrongly interpreted my comment. I wonder which part (the liberal or the whining part). ;)

[Petronski]

They STOLE FLUCKIN 14 POINTS from the Hawks.

I demand a recount! Call the Florida Supreme Court!

I REALLY didn't care WHO won this game...

Oh ha ha ha ha ah aha hahahaha hahahah!

Riiiiiight.

[bikepacker67]

Disputed calls are one thing, but when I taped the program and took the time to review, pause an step-through frame by frame the ball spotting by the refs, they repeatedly, especially when it counted most, shorted Seattle and advantaged Pittsburg. The most obvious case was the one where Hasselback ran for what was clearly sufficient for a first down. When the refs moved (spotted) the ball, sure enough, you could see they moved it back about a foot at least from where it should have been so that it ended up short by 6 inches or so. A picture tells it all. Way beyond the perhaps arguable bad or missed calls, the "fix" was dialed in for Pittsburg from the start.

I saw the same thing too.

This was scripted, and all the Squeeler fans can post "crying baby" pictures all they want, but the fact remains that the rest of the league, and the rest of the fans will always look upon this "victory" as a farce.

20 years from now, NFL films will still talk about the ASTERISK.

[sinkspur]

We had bad calls against Indy and still won.

And Joey Porter pissed and moaned like a girl, after winning the game, about the officials post-game.

If that game had lasted another five minutes, you'd have lost. After the Palumalu non-interception call, your team gave up a TD, fumbled on the two yard line, and had to pray a novena for a missed field goal to avoid overtime.

So much for handling missed calls well.