I don't think the officiating was as bad as you think it was. Some bad calls on both sides (but then again, what game doesn't have its bad call or two?). All in all, the Seahawks may have played better statistically...but when it actually counted, they didn't play well enough.
What were the bad calles against pit? I knew seattle had a TD taken away, Pit got a TD given to them, Seattle passed to the 1 yrd line for 1st down and that was taken away from them. A very strange penalty against Hasselbeck for tackling low? no idea what that was.
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?