Posted on 01/18/2009 7:24:47 PM PST by TheEaglehasLanded
Steal Curtain CallJust when it seemed the Ravens had solved the Steelers' vaunted D, poof! Pittsburgh snagged another Super Bowl berth.
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Yeah but he never says anything bad about them. The Steelers are always quick to cut “old” players (and they usually lose a step), that’s the team, doesn’t mean we don’t like him any more.
Didn't you know? Mike Tomlin is a Grand Wizard.
/extreme sarcasm
p.s. No you didn't miss a thing.
I found that odd as well. Bettis works for the SuperBowl (Peacock) network...I would have had Jerome (w/his history) present the trophy...JB is an icon here.
HA-HA! Go Steelers! I’ve been a fan since the 70’s!
Not under the current standards. Modern era is generally SB era. That might wind up having to change soon since SB 43 is coming up, but it’ll only shrink. Figure sometime soonish (by SB L) the first 10 will stop being part of the modern era.
That’s a bunch of crap-what are they gonna do just forget about the first ten and start over.
Can’t wait to see how the NFL hands the game to the Steelers like their last win against the Seahawks . . . too bad they can’t play football with the rest of the NFL and have to have special rules and penalties made up to hand them victories.
No, they just won’t be in the “modern era”. Every sport that lasts goes through this, eventually they have to realize that “all time” covers a time period that no living person remembers so they make a cut off point and declare the “modern era”. In the NHL currently it’s when the league went from 6 to 12 teams, which is nearly the same time as the first SB. Figure pretty soon the NHL will change the “modern era” to be the WHL merger which changed the league. Meanwhile the NFL will drop the first 10 SBs from the “modern era” partly because it’s a long time ago and the league did change dramatically in the 80s when things got a lot more pass whacky. The might delay the redefinition for until LV or so and make the salary cap era (a phrase already heavily used) the “modern era”.
That’s just how it goes, eventually everything stops being modern. The SBs will remain, and the count will continue, but a whole bunch will no longer be considered to have happened in the modern era.
The vaunted Seahawks offense dropped eight passes (hearing footsteps), missed two field goals, mismanaged the clock, and gave up too many big plays.
Holmgren and Hasselbeck made excuses for choking big time and have disappeared since then.
The Steelers were the real deal then and now they're back.
I'll leave it at that.
“Not this junk again. The penalties that were called were legit.”
Sorry, Pal, but when you have referees who are told (or want to) give the game to the Steelers, then that’s the kind of football you get . . . calling a penalty (a totally made-up penalty) on the Seahawk quarterback for tackling the guy who intercepted his throw, then you know the game was given to the Steelers. That was the most lopsided game I’ve ever seen. The NFL didn’t want the Seahawks to win that game because the marketing would have been miserable due to the fact that the Seahawks are an isolated team (2,500 miles from another team) and the Steelers . . . well, they deserved it . . . so we’ll make up penalties, put on blinders and take the game away from their opponents. That’s the way the Steelers play (well, they don’t really have to play). Referees will play the game for them. I’ll bet the Seattle fans are still furious at that farce of a Super Bowl.
Thank you, hoping for a cold Feb 1st in Tampa, nice if it would be in the 40’s.
He was there, did CBS show him at all.
Larry Fitzgerald played his college football at, you guessed it Pittsburgh.
We've been getting hosed by the refs all year. 13-1 against us in the first San Diego game.
You're dreaming if you think the refs gave the Steelers Super Bowl XL. Sounds like a lot of sour grapes to me. If the Seahawks fans are furious it should be at their incompetent wideouts, loud mouth tight end, loser QB, inaccurate kicker, and brain-dead coach.
The call on Hasselbeck was a legitimate call of a stupid rule and had absolutely no effect on the outcome of the game. The Steelers still had the ball and Seahawks defense couldn't stop them.
It’s hard to believe the Cardinals have much chance against the big mean Steelers, but if anyone can pull off another miracle it’s Kurt Warner.
Awww. You smell like a Patsy.
Actually that exact same call got mad against Big Ben in the regular season, it’s not totally made up, it was a bad rule. The problem was they (Ben in the regular season and Matt in the SB) had a blocker between them and the ball carrier and they went way low, the league was trying to get rid of cut blocks that year. A crappy rule, but not made-up, and kind of karmic that the Steelers got bit by it in the regular season and then benefited from it in the SB.
There isn’t marketing AFTER the SB. That’s a silly reason to think they wouldn’t want a team to win.
Sorry but you’re just wrong. The reality is the Seahawks played poorly, they had their worst 3rd down conversion percentage of the season that game, heck they had their most 3rd downs of the season that game. Dropped tons of passes, just didn’t play well.
That doesn’t seem to matter to Rush...or me.
The Rooneys are old-school Democrats and will be til the day they die.
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