Didn’t make it tougher for Willie Parker, did it?
Who’s saying Parker didn’t bust off a good one.
Look, your guys won a shitty-ass Superbowl in shitty-ass fashion. Pitt put together 3 great conference road wins, two over teams that were arguably better than their Superbowl opponent.
Rest on that. That was a shitty-ass Superbowl and a game that’s going to be remembered for the wrong things.
Whose saying Parker didn’t bust off a good one.
Look, your guys won a shitty-ass Superbowl in shitty-ass fashion. Pitt put together 3 great conference road wins, two over teams that were arguably better than their Superbowl opponent.
Rest on that. That was a shitty-ass Superbowl and a game that’s going to be remembered for the wrong things.
Actually, it’s going to be remembered because the Steelers won their fifth.
Pittsburgh-5
Seattle-0
Rest on that.
Wow.
They’ll always be the answer to the fascinating trivia question, “who was the third team to win five superbowls?”
I think that it’s more likely that he was thinking: “where’s the ball? where’s the ball? Oh, there it is! TD!”
I thought the ball was clearly visible on the replay, but even if that was what he was thinking, it just makes my point. As far as he was concerned, it wasn’t a TD until after Ben moved the ball forward-which still makes it a bad call.
This is probably a game that’s not going to live too long in anybody’s memory, at least for a Super Bowl. There were a handful of exciting plays, but nobody was that good (maybe Ward). The winning QB was 9 for 21 with two picks and now touchdowns, Shaun Alexander’s numbers were good but he didn’t have much impact on the game, yada yada yada.
There was a Jeremy Stevens catch and fumble that was ruled an incomplete pass.
As a Steelers fan, I have to say that there is no way Big Ben scored on that play. I thought Alexander played as well as could be expected, yet somehow his “not showing up” is responsible for dropped passes, poor clock management, etc. Right.
Again, I am a Steelers fan, but it’s awfully hard for me to gloat when they played LESS POORLY than the Seahawks.
Get a grip.
I’m a Giants fan. If both teams burst into flames in the 1st quarter it wouldn’t matter to me. The push off was a push off. If you do that 2 feet in front of the official it will be called every time, Super Bowl or no. It is one of the things that frustrated me about Burress all year. He would do a little push off even when he was going to make the catch anyway and he would get called for it.
To me it looked like Ben broke the plane. It was close enough to not merit a reversal.
Bottom line the Steelers played a better game than the Seahawks. Horrible coaching at the end of both halves. Two missed field goals that may have changed the whole game. Blaming the officials is a cop out. They give you a bad call you have to come back and do it again. If you can’t you lose. Every team deals with it every game. There are questionable calls in every game. I didn’t see this as being any worse then any other game.
And no I am not prejudiced against the Seahawks for beating the Giants this year. They didn’t. If you saw the game you would know the Giants beat the Giants.
I agree that was a fumble. They couldn’t challenge it because it was blown dead on the field.
Why do you think that?
It’s not “two feet”. It’s “two feet and a football move”.
One link for instance.
See if you can find that play again. The ball came out split second after his second foot touched, before he’d even turned his head or his body, much less made a step. No catch.
What? He was on the winning team against the Colts when he made the complaints about the officiating.
I have to wonder why Ed Hocculi’s team wasn’t given the super bowl. I only know 3 head refs by name - two because they’re horrible, and one because he’s really good. McCauley, Triplet, and Hocculi respectively.
Regardless of fan bias either way, I think that it is clear that it wasn’t the Steeler’s defence that stopped the Seahawks, but the random winds of the officiating.
Any game that gets decided on yellow flags, instead of made/missed plays, is a poor one, and this was a poor quality game as a viewer and fan by any standard . That this was the Super Bowl makes it orders of magnitude poorer of a game.
I don’t think it’s clear at all.
I think it’s crystal clear. I’ve heard the same thing from virtually everybody I’ve talked to today, whether or not they actually cared who won the SB…the officiating was very bad, and contributed to the Steelers’ win.
The game was dismal at best. I actually managed to fall asleep during it.
The refs flat out sucked hard on this one. My father and I couldn’t really tell if Ben’s TD was a real TD, but it was pretty damn close. It bothered me that he didn’t signal TD until Ben, while glaring right at the ref, DRUG the ball in his hands across the line…
Please.
33 minutes of possession.
396 total yards, and that’s with the refs turning 2 gains for a total of about 80 yards into 2 penalties of -20 yards.
Seattle rolled the Steeler’s D over and patted it’s belly.
Take your blinders off, fan. That was one of the crappiest Superbowl wins ever.