Posted on 02/08/2006 10:43:11 AM PST by TheClintons-STILLAnti-American
Turns out Mike Holmgren lost respect, as well as the NFL championship at Super Bowl XL by insisting that officiating was a factor in the Seahawks' 21-10 loss to the Steelers. Holmgren's better than that.
As a veteran NFL coach, he at least ought to be held to a higher standard.
Sadly, Holmgren pointed the finger instead of the thumb.
(Excerpt) Read more at pittsburghlive.com ...
Yeah, the mighty Steelers are allowed to call time out after the big clock behind the end zone gets to zero. They're special.
Booooo hooooo hooooo!!! Crybaby.
He should have stayed with the Eagles, then he'd never have to complain about a call in a Superbowl, because the Eagles will never see another in his lifetime.
One thing any NFL fan can agree - IMHO - is that the NFL Ref's suck.
The Seattle fans whining about the obviously biased officiating is sad, but the Steelers fans whining about the Seattle fans whining is just pathetic.
You won. Sure, everyone will remember this gave forever as a going away gift for Bettis, but you still have the title.
A gloating winner is by far more obnoxious than a sore loser.
Someone has to say it.
This years playoff officiating was worse then the WWF. And All you Sqeeler fans would be bytching and moaning LOUDEST if that debacle in the RCA Dome went the way it was scripted!
Yeah, that was a game shifting moment not like missing field goals.
Actually, All I hear the Seattlites saying is that the end zone foul was no worse than what he got away with during the regular season.
.... Sort of like the excuse from the Nirvana fans trashing the Starbucks that this was the first time that they got caught
.... Not that they didn't commit the crime .... just that they got away with it before
....Just because you weren't caught pushing off before doesn't mean that you have a free pass forever
.... May have been a "bad" call as Madden stated, but only because he had gotten away with worse before
I had no rooting interest either. But it was obvious.
Your tears are irrigating the garden of my Super Bowl joy. Yes, lets put an asterisk next to XL*, and it will represent a dried teardrop of water that was originated in a triple no-foam nonfat latttaaaay-light with Visene on the side.
Liberal losers! Even FReepers from Seattle are whining leftist losers.
Tra la la deee dee de!
Don't cry for me Largentina!
Doo doo doodle! Deedle dee!
HAR HAR HAR!
Q: Hey Seattle, you lost the Super Bowl. What are you going to do now?
A: *
Chortle chortle chortle. Guffaw guffaw!
I'm a Pats/Sox/Bruins fan, I could CARE LESS who won the Superbowl.
It's the WAY IT WAS "WON" that sucks donkey balls.
Why am I a crybaby? I am a Giants fan, and was actually rooting for the Steelers, in the hopes that it would help Lynn Swann's candidacy. But I was disgusted by the officiating, and will point it out where I can.
Now now, didn`t say there were none,
there`s just more on the left coast and
metrosexuals probably swing both ways.
Holmgren seems to have assimilated just fine.
Of course!
Holmgren is the problem.
Not the apparently cleanly called game, according to the NFL. [sarcasm]
Nice attempt to distract furor to Holmgren, but it remains the only people in America maintaining that the officiating was good are the NFL (big surprise) and Steelers fans.
The rest of America will talk about this long as the game lives, and that really ticks Steelers fans off. So much THEY are whining that people won't shut up about officiating.
Why they can't just admit they got screwed too, I don't know. No one before this game would have wanted the main discussion to be about refs afterwards. The fact is that it hurts the win for the Steelers just as bad as it hurt Hawk and general football fans.
No way...a Pittsburgh sportswriter is calling Holmgren a crybaby? I can't believe it!!!
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