Posted on 02/05/2006 10:40:43 AM PST by Seattle Conservative
Edited on 02/05/2006 3:30:22 PM PST by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
Are you ready for some football????!!!!
Seattle Seahawks v.s. Pittsburgh Steelers ABC 6:15 ET February 5, 2006
VS.
6:30 PM EST on ABC
Pregame coverage begins at 2:30 PM
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Aha........... I'm a big Steeler (Pittsburgh) fan and a lifetime Pittsburgher........ and I love my (pond) scum......that slight green, natural film in the shaded south-easterly corner of my lovely little lake down in the back wooded acreage of my property here in 'da 'Burgh.
Scum is good.
;)
By the way, a$$*&^e, you misspelled a$$*&^e.
General consensus at our party was that this was one of the most disappointing Superbowls ever, as bad as when the murderer was MVP for Baltimore. Absolutely sucked. Worst officiated Superbowl ever, so many ticky-tack and phantom calls that kept affecting the game. Refs and the Terrible Towels they kept yanking out of their back pockets should have been the MVP's. Really left a bad taste in the mouths of everyone but Steeler fans. Way too many dropped passes by Seattle. Awful 2-minute clock management at the end of both halfs, ridiculous to be throwing for 3 yards with no timeouts and down 11. Ya kinda new it was over by halftime, a team dominating like that but can't get in the endzone almost never wins, and the Seahawks let the refs get to them and their head, with that Buffalo Bills look in their eyes heading to the locker room. Rothlesburger had a lousy 22 QB rating, lowest ever for a winning QB. But the record run and Randel El's td pass were awesome!
Worst national anthem evah! Should not be a eunuch yodelfest. Flabby-armed Stones represented the Baby Boomers perfectly, just way-overhyped vapid meaningless nothing. As usual ABC stooped deep into the gutter with their sitcom promo's, glad the NFL is moving from that trash network. But the Puppy Bowl was awesome! Lots of great commercials, too. Fedex caveman was the big winner for us.
Nobody from Pittsburgh at our party, but boy, are the bandwagon Steeler fans ever obnoxious. Loved the way pregame they kept bitching about how they overcame bad calls against Indy, but by halftime were blabbing that only total losers complain about the refs. Dolts. But congrats to the Rooney family, a class act and one of the NFL's best owners.
Sorry. I forgot to specify. I was talking about Olympic Shuffleboard.
SD
There are a few folks who say that, but almost never in Spanish. English is still the official language here.
That's not true, there were at least 3 near receptions beyond 25 yards, one was ruled an incompletion but should have been ruled a catch and fumble and the other two were caught out of bounds. They sent for the bomb but never got it.
The initial contact they both hit each other. The second contact kept the defender from changing his direction such that he could have made a play, that's what drew the flag.
I think Seattle ate a total of 3 holding calls, all of which were huge since they got them out of the red zone. But the head ref for the game is well known to be extremely tight on holding calls.
The illegal block call almost exactly matched two illegal block call the Steelers ate during the regular season. While I don't agree with any of the three calls at least they applied it consistently.
Every replay on a holding call I saw showed a hold, and more importantly a hold that altered the play. The big one where they threw to the one the defender was hauled down by one hand and almost got to Matt anyway, if the lineman doesn't hold on that play it's a sack not a completion to the 1, they have to call that.
Madden disagrees with 90% of all holding calls, he's old school and thinks it's over called. Not really the best judge of how holding is interpretted these days.
I stand corrected...as I watch all the replays I'm still a bit miffed at Holmgren for keeping the laces on when the momentum was all going awry...but I think that the great lack for the Seahawks was execution not plan.
Pre game show, shortly before that horrible rendition of the National Anthem.
Man, if it was anything like that Aaron Neville/Aretha Franklin National Anthem abomination, I'm glad I missed it.
Never said that the refs changed the outcome. The Seahawks didn't play well. The Steelers had 3 good plays that won the game for them. That being said, I'm not the only one who saw a poorly called game. Many sports writers and unaligned viewers feel the same way. Check back into reality, please. Your Steelers won and nobody is taking that away from you. Congrats to them for coming a long way on the road. But the NFL has a problem: its refereeing stinks.
This article says it best:
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/sports/football/13801313.htm
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"But make no mistake about Super Bowl XL, the performance of referee Bill Leavy and his crew overshadowed Pittsburgh's heroics and Seattle's blunders.
Paul Tagliabue's league has an officiating crisis. Bogus, inconsistent flag-throwing and rule-interpreting is making the national pastime difficult to take seriously. So far, only Joey Porter has demonstrated the necessary courage to address what we all see.
Many of these part-time, 50-year-old referees don't know what they're doing and can't keep up with the action."
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I don't agree with all of the article, but the quote above is spot-on, IMO.
Sorry, Ben! The Road to XLI goes through Landover, MD!!
Yep...Biased, WA Resident...
WITH CLASS!
Hey Cherry, I'm with you. As a Dallas fan that's had a long history with the Steelers, I know all about no calls. In SB 10, there wasn't ONE penalty called on Pittsburgh even though Jack Lambert through Charlie Waters down hard after a missed Pitt fg attempt. And in SB 13, one of the worst ever calls went against Benny Barnes. Lynn Swann went up Barnes' back to go for a catch. The three refs nearest to the action called it offensive pass interference. Eagle eyed Fred Swearingen, a ref working his last game was fourty yards away and called it against Barnes. He got the three refs to "see" it his way and gave Pitt the ball, yardage, and new life. The Steelers weren't doin anything to that point. the league sent a letter of apology to Dallas and to Benny Barnes stating the call was wrong. That letter sure didn't have the reflective properties that diamonds and gold has.
I am from Louisiana. I have no interest in who wins. You must have blinders on. All the refs calls are going the way of the Steelers if they can get away with it. They had one overturned when they just couldn't get away with it.
The replay that showed the defender did touch the quarterback when he was going down and the ground caused a fumble. Makes me wonder which mafia organization had a big stake on the Steelers. It was fixed.
I figured you didn't see the Colt's game when the NFL came out the next day and apoligized for the bad calls against the Steelers. But they overcame those bad calls anyway --- that's what CHAMPIONSHIP TEAMS DO.
As to yesterday, IMHO, there were only two calls I question. The 3rd quarter holding that negated a pass inside the Steeler five yard line, (at least I didn't see the hold) and the chop block on the interception return --- that was just a wrong call. On the first, Seattle may get a TD, or may get a FG. Either way, it does not change the outcome. On the second, it's still the Steeler's ball only on the 30 instead of the 45.
The offensive interference was the correct call -- a receiver can not push off, and he did it right in front of the Ref and it wasn't a subtle push. I called it exactly when it happened. On Ben's TD, the ball did break the plain of the goal before he was pushed back. ABC only replayed the view from the far side. If you paid attention to the original near side view, it was obvious the ball was over the goal line before he was pushed back. Thats a TD.
Folks not familiar with the rules of football might not like the outcome, but those are the rules. And Championship teams understand that bad calls can go both ways and neither are excuses for losing. Seattle lost that game for only one reason --- too many dropped passes. There is no one but themselves to blame for that.
I'm just thankful Aretha didn't have a wardrobe malfunction. Someone could have got killed.
There were a lot of key dropped passes by the Hawks, and badly timed penalties. And in the end going 5 of 17 on 3rd down conversions will kill a team.
I believe it was the mid 4th quarter on a QB scrabble play.
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