Five Reasons the Refs Ruined the Superbowl:
1. Ben's Non-Touchdown Touchdown. Clearly didn't break the plain. That was a horrible call and even worse when it wasn't reversed.
2. Offensive Pass Interference on D. Jackson's touchdown pass. Give me a break, you wouldn't call this in a regular season game. Terrible.
3. Holding call after the pass to the 2 yard line from Hassleback.
Obviously no hold on the replay. He had his hands in front of him the entire time! This would have put Seattle up by 3 points.
4. No call on the tackle made on Alexander with his collar which is illegal.
5. Illegal Block on Hasselback which was not even a block, it was a tackle which is legal!
This gave Pittsburg great field position to throw their "gadget" play (Madden couldn't have possibly said "gadget" anymore than he did last night.
The big media story all week was, "Bettis is coming home to Detroit, his last game ever, his only shot at a Super Bowl, blah blah blah." It's not a shocker that the refs were adamently against Seattle. I'm not a huge conspiracy theorist but this game was just blatant. Hard to argue with that after seeing all the horrible calls go against Seattle. I'm not even a Seattle fan and had nothing in the game but I felt bad for the way they were raped. I would agree with Bill Simmons who said the flags started to look like Terrible Towels being thrown on the field. And yes Steelers Fans, i believe this as much as you believe they wanted Peyton Manning in the Super Bowl. My friend John put it well last night when he said, "after Peyton Manning didn't get there they hopped on the bus and rode him all the way" which is what you saw displayed so perfectly last night. It's amazing how the media affects (corrupts) this game at every level isn't it?
It's funny, i got done writing this a few hours ago and just went to Espn.com and saw this article which pretty much says the same thing I did except way better. Check it out HERE.
Favorite Line of the Game: "Well John, right now they've got towels around him so they can pull down his pants and tape up his groin." That was a little too graphic for what was necessary.
3 comments:
haha the quote started a really good conversation.
You're on the money and you were right about Michael Smith's article at espn. Same things you said with a little more elaboration plus access to frustrated quotes from Seahawks' players.
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