Posted on 02/08/2006 3:54:24 PM PST by bikepacker67
SEATTLE - And now a word about the officiating in Super Bowl XL. Two words actually.
It stunk.
The interference call, a push-off on Darrell Jackson that cost the Seahawks a first-quarter touchdown, was hideous.
If former Dallas Cowboy Michael Irvin hadn't been allowed to use his arm to get separation the innocent way Jackson did in Sunday's loss to Pittsburgh, Irvin would have caught maybe 20 balls in his career.
And the fourth-quarter holding call on right tackle Sean Locklear that nullified a spectacular catch by tight end Jerramy Stevens at the Pittsburgh 1-yard line was equally egregious.
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Every show is talking about it.
Face it... this Steeler "Win" will ALWAYS be debatable.
One for the thumb, like hell.
OH NO!!!!!!
LOL
Future NFL films will always bring up the BLATANT controversy
That's OFFENSIVE pass interference. The receiver ran TO the defender then PUSHED. The defender was doing nothing more than protecting his position. Offensive pass inteference. Legit, all whiners are wrong, and the more they whine the more they move past mere whiners to the lowest form of life on the planet: LIARS.
Barely got it down with the zebras on their side.
What was Big Bens QB rating... 44?
Why would the defender push off? He wanted to move AWAY from the path of the ball?! Sorry, the defender moved backwards as a result of the receiver's push.
yeah....
but Cleveland is getting better. There won't be any 41-0 games next year.
I don't know Mike, If Romeo keeps punting at the opponents 29 yd line we all could be waiting until 2108.
I dont know if the Rothlesberger dive was a TD or not ... replay is, as they say, "inconclusive". the clearest pics show it not in. if that play had decided the game it would be a pisser, but thats sports. whichever way it was called had to stand. it is odd that the ref ran up to the play and waited to call it until the QB respotted the ball.
the other plays were all jobs against Seattle ...
I guarantee that if you check the replays of the Steeler 75 yard TD run, or the Randel-El gadget play, or the long third down toss, that there was holding, and illegal contact, over the line, etc. but the refs only seemed to look at one team for penalties.
I wouldnt say the refs decided the game, but they sure made it an uneven playing field.
hey, Pittsburgh won. Seattle should have overcome the adversities in their way, but they didnt. Neither of these teams really deserved to win, but Seattle sure didnt deserve to get what they got.
like I said, it must really suck to be a Steeler fan, wait all these years for a glimmer of a chance at the SB, knowing it will be years before you get back again, and have the whole country believing it was a tainted win.
Was that at the Titans game?
If so, weak-legged Dawson would have been kicking into a 50 KT headwind :)
NO the way Kyle Richardson punts, he would have shanked it and it would have gone out of bounds at the 8 or so :)
Wrong. Seattle faltered on their first possession, after moving easily to mid field they then got stopped by the D and sacked out of FG range. No penalties were called on that drive at all. And that's pretty much the story of the game for Seattle, good job getting to Steeler territory, bad job getting from the 45 to scoring range and/ or staying in scoring range once they got there.
about 4 inches short of a TD ... got one that shows it crossing the plane?
Just needed to be repeated.
No...that's a weak excuse. I do follow sports, I have participated in sports - including at the intercollegiate level - and there's never a time (save Pop Warner football-level games) that the refs kill a team's chances.
Damage is always self-inflicted.
Seattle is still on a slow burn. We can always hope for reform.
The rule, one I heartily disagree with, says that it's an illegal block once he goes low, doesn't have to hit anybody. Pitt got bit by the same rule by Leavy in the regular season game against the Colts.
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