I don't want to be a sour grapes Seahawks fan, but sports commentaries around the Nation are saying the same thing about the lousy officiating that pretty obviously affected the outcome of the game, and only began after Seattle was dominating the quarter. The officiating should be looked at as well as the obvious Steeler favoritism of the TV coverage, which showed countless clips of Steelers holding the trophy. Even the Steeler fans noticed this lopsided favoritism. Someone high up in the NFL and the broadcast station needs to provide an answer and some apologies to Seahawks fans and football fans everywhere who expected to tune in and see a hard hitting fair and honest championship game. They seem to be spending more time monitoring the Half time shows and commercials for embarrassing content than making sure they are giving equal respect to both teams that have one their own divisions.
That being said, none of the players in the locker room were placing the blame on the officials. They blamed them selves for not getting the job done. That shows class. The dropped passes, the missed field goals, the beautiful passes caught just out of bounds, If you are not at the top of your game bad calls are going to haunt you big time. But when neither team was playing at their best but one of them is getting help from the officials you can’t help to be angry if you are a fan.
I'm still not finished commenting on this whining. Yes, last night on Letterman, Ben DID say that when he went to the sidelines on that THIRD DOWN play he didn't think he got in at first. So, he goes for it on 4th and goal from 1/2 inch. The TD is made, and the game is changed, how exactly?
All of you whiners and others, just WHO held the league MVP running back to under 100 yards?? the officials?
I think the problem with this game was the amount of people watching. No offense to those of you who don't watch football regularly, but you watch a game, you see the Seahawks have more yards and you think, geez why didn't they win.
It happens, and it happens regularly. It wasn't the officials fixing the game.
We had our victory parade today. The seahawks had to cancel their prematurely planned parade.
Madden has never liked the Steelers, it goes back to the 1970's when Chuck Noll called the Raiders the Criminal Element of the NFL. Pittsburgh is a very small TV market, not the darling of the national media. Even though the number one apparel sales this past year happened to be Pittsburgh Steelers attire.
Some of you are commenting on the Sore/Loserman line, I stand by it. SOME of you are seriously acting worse than the democrats after election 2000.