Posted on 02/05/2006 8:19:51 PM PST by serendepitylives
STEELERS WIN SUPERBOWL X-TRA LARGE DETROIT - Mick Jagger moved up and down the field at halftime more easily than the Pittsburgh offense did for most of the game. In the end, though, Jerome Bettis, the Steelers and their thousands of rowdy fans wound up the big winners on Super Bowl Sunday. Save for a few big plays that changed the game, style points were hard to come by on America's annual football holiday. But to Pittsburgh, the 21-10 victory over the Seattle Seahawks was beautiful _ a gritty grind of a game that included just enough flair to transform a blue-collar team playing in a blue-collar city into champions.
In a stadium brimming with thousands of Pittsburgh fans waving Terrible Towels, the Steelers finally captured their fifth title, that "One for the Thumb" they've been chasing since 1980.
"It's almost unreal right now," coach Bill Cowher said.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
The left-coast team would have won handily if the field were 60 yards wide. Training your receivers to make circus catches with one foot out of bounds is not a formula for success in the NFL.
Sore loser. Doesn't do you any credit.
The Seahawks owned the Steelers for almost the entire first half. They should have gone into halftime up by at least two scores.
Pittsburgh didn't get a first down for what, eighteen minutes? And Seattle couldn't get more than a field goal in all that time? Pathetic.
The Hawks should have put this one away early. You can't blame the officials for the fact that they let the Steelers back into the game. You can't blame the Steelers for Holmgren's terrible time management (in all his time in the League, why hasn't he come up with a 2-minute drill?).
The Seahawks may well have been the better team. But the Steelers outplayed them. No whinging about the officiating necessary.
Nope. Seattle gave the game away.
They failed to take advantage of three Pittsburgh 3-and-outs to start the game, and they piddled away the last minutes of both halves without any gameplan.
You want a scapegoat, look at your coach before pointing fingers anywhere else.
how do you "give the game away" when the refs take away any fwd progress you make.
there were plenty of bad calls against the seahawks
Country singer John Michael Montgomery screwed up his career for trashing the National Anthem at a NASCAR Busch race a year or two back. He sounded drunk. He apologized and said he had an ear infection or something like that. It was too late and didn't help. He had already screwed the pooch. Most of us take the National Anthem seriously.
My apologies to you. I meant PITTSBURGH.
You analysis is right on the money. Unlike some others who have been watching football for 25 years.
Well put!!!
Yeah, but most of those were play calls from the Seattle bench.
Come on. How can you defend the coaching in the closing minutes of both halves?
I know that you're disappointed (I watched my Packers lose a Super Bowl, and it still hurts), but you have to keep some perspective, and you have to level blame where it belongs. The Seahawks lost this game all on their own.
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.
See you go off spouting things that you cant back up, by every measure? Wasn't Seattle the #1 ranked offense? Is that not a measure? Didn't Seattle lead the league in sacks? Is that not a measure? Seattle lead in time of possession. is that not a measure? Seattle got more 1st downs, again i guess that isn't a measure. More Net yards(396-339), more plays(77-56), less turnovers.... other than that by ever other measure. The 14 points robbed from them and the 7 points given to Pit. Oh and the 7-3 penalty differential.
You give the game away by going 5 for 17 on 3rd downs.
Cower could have reviewed that. You cant review holding.
No Cowher could not have reviewed that. You can't review an incomplete pass, you can review to reverse a call TO incomplete but you can't review FROM incomplete. Especially because the refs blew the whistle and stopped play before anybody recovered (though it clearly would have been recovered by a Steeler since the only Seahawk within 15 yards had just been knocked on his butt).
The sad part is that it leaves room for the crybabies and those with warped priorities to never reconcile to reality. (I actually saw a poster on this forum last week whining about the Cowboys loss to the Steelers IN THE 1970'S...THE SEVENTIES, FOR CRYIN' OUT LOUD...the players in those games have not only moved on with life, but a number of them ARE DEAD OF NAATURAL CAUSES NOW! Sad testimony of the lives of the whiners.
It's a good thing the people who play the games are far more realistic and mature, or they'd never make it to the professional level. They learn to accept that you win some and you lose some, sometimes the breaks go your way and sometimes they don't, but it isn't life, and real life goes on.
I'm glad life now goes on with the best team in the NFL this year, after all the breaks, calls, and every other variable that "makes a horse race", the rightful winner of the highest award of the sport...because they did everything necessary to EARN it.
Now, real life goes on the same as if Seattle had lucked out and won.
It's SPORTS. Big deal.
I know just seeing if your on your toes. Not sure if that was a fumble or not, I was outside during that play.
I guess you didn't see the first touchdown the Seahawks scored.
Stealers win Superbowl XL*
* Worst officiating in a Superbowl ever.
My team wasn't there today and I ordinarily would not pay money to see the Seahawks and THe Steelers attacked and devoured by wolves, so I am really objective. (NS)
I thought the officiating was very bad indeed. The Pass interference call on the Seahawk touchdown was really very weak. Roethlisberger's TD was not. And the penalty on Seahawk's QB Block was so far-fetched as to be ludicrous. There was also a costly holding penalty on the Seahawks that was not.
Ordinarily, bad calls even out. Today, they came down on the Seahawks like a hammer, breaking their momentum. It was a factor in their losing the game. The only question is, how big a factor?
He grabbed the ball, turned, and took too steps (after getting both feet on the ground for the reception), then the ball popped out when he got hit but was still verticle. Clearly catch and fumble. Bad calls happen, sad but true.
Couple that with the reception Franco Harris (waving the Towel) and future Governor of PA, Lynn Swann received...just makes it all the more surreal. It was Pittsburgh's night from the opening act. Both teams stumbled...but no one gave the Steelers anything. The best team won. Seattle is a great team. Pittsburgh was just better.
+11-+14points for Seattle and -4 to -7 for Pit.
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