"I found the constant profiles of the Steeler team members to be completely offensive and indicative of the prejudice against Seattle."
That's the funniest statement I've read all day-there was a BLATANT bias against the Steelers in ALL of the coverage of every single post-season game. The entire SB pregame show can be basically summed up as "Steelers-mean, trash talking and overrated, Seahawks, nice, quiet underdogs not getting the respect they deserve." It was obvious the media was working itself all up for a big upset which they DIDN'T get-that's why we're seeing this backlash now.
I guarantee you-if that offensive pass interference was committted by a Steeler and it WASN'T called, we'd be hearing the exact same whining we're hearing now. It has nothing to do with the calls themselves, there is nothing there to indicate that these calls were even WRONG, let alone intentionally biased.
Yeah, I heard about the bias against the Steelers in the lead up games, I also heard it said that the refs were obviously determined to make it up to the Steelers.
The overwhelming response in the media seems to be that the refs threw the game to the Steelers, with a few exceptions of course.