WE WON!!! ONE FOR THE THUMB!!!
(Question-do coaches and owners get rings as well as the players?)
Look at Johnnie and Gladys-especially the latter. They’re just sobbing!
WOOHOOO!!!
WE DID IT!!!
It would have been nice to see the Seahawks play against just the 11 other players on the field. We may not have not won, I can’t view that as a loss.
But congratulations to Airman Doors, USAF and all the other Steeler fans. Your team did good, but not without some help by the booth.
Agnostic Pagan
(me bitter, only until next year. We’ll see who gets back first.)
Did I miss something or did Holmgren not walk out on the filed to shake Cowher’s hand?
Yeah, just like all year long, the refs sucked ass. But, if a team can’t still come back and score the same points (DJax!) in the next few plays, then, then, … ah shit.
Anyways, the refs didn’t give Pitt the game, the Seadogs didn’t lose the game, the Steelers won it. Congrats be to the guys who came from behind in the whole freakin season and stayed in the games til they won the big one.
No shoulda, coulda, woulda from me. (And I’m as anti Steeler as they come, having been an Oilers fan in the 70s and still a Bronco believer.) Steelers won Superbowl XL.
Enjoy this while you can, tho, guys. There ain’t gonna be no repeat next year!
Woohoo woohoo woohoo! GO STEELERS!!! 
There was nothing wrong wth the Roethlisbereger touchdown call. The holding call was a little iffy but not terrible. The Seahawks got beat fair and square. Their miserable clock management at the ends of both halves hurt them more than that ticky-tack holding call did.
Man, if EITHER team would have managed to score another touchdown, I would have won the $6.25 in the Super Bowl pool. I’m so disappointed.
The fact that pittsburgh won takes a bit of the sting out of Indy’s loss…but not much, Vanderjagt is still a choke artist.
Congrats Steelers fans.
I agree. The only call that I found to be bad was the illegal block by the quarterback. I honestly feel Big Ben crossed the line.
The first quarter offensive pass interference call that took away a Seattle TD was very iffy. Technically interference, yes, but the sort that is rarely called.
Lifetime Steelers fan…that was a nailbiter for a while. I knew it would be hard-fought, though, and if if it were any other team, or even a returning Steelers team, I would have rooted for Seattle. I honestly feel a little sorry for them.
A very little.
G;j Steelers!
(My little Black&Gold fan)
Push offs right in front of the officials are rarely called? Looked textbook to me.
Congrats to Airman Doors, the Steelers, and Coach Glower.
There were some questionable calls. Once they called the Roethlisberger play a TD, they couldn’t reverse it. The push-off on that catch was slight, but it was blatant. And as Diogenes mentioned, Seattle’s clock management was awful.
This was a solid game, and when people look at the score, it won’t reflect the fact that there was some real drama and a couple of exciting momentum shifts, particularly on the two interceptions.
I agree as well, although they’ve been calling that penalty really tight all year. I think I’ve seen three times on turnovers this year where someone gets called for going low through a blocker. I don’t remember if Hasselbeck hit a blocker or not.
We’re still shooting fireworks, banging pots and pans, honking horns! The Pittsburgh Steelers are the Champs! What an awesome post-season performance - the greatest in NFL history.
This thread was the first thing I thought of as the clock was winding down, and I haven’t even been contributing to this thread. Congrats guys!
As I understand it, the coaches and owners get rings, Guin.
Why am I thinking that a ceremony presenting the owner’s ring posthumously to Art Rooney would have the entire western half of Pennsylvania in tears?
Yep, congrats to the Steelers and their fans. I do not think the refs beat the Seahawks, incidentally, I just think they kept it from being close.
Well…we get the one for the thumb, and I’m just thrilled!
Like others here, the only bogus call in my mind was Hasselbeck’s tackle. Roethlisberger was in on the TD, you can see that the edge of the football is over the plane of the line while he’s in the air, which is all that matters. The push off, while minor, was enough to get the separation needed to make the catch…that’s pretty clear cut in my mind.
Ben didn’t play a good game, but he made the big plays when they mattered…that 3rd and 28 was HUGE, and he made some excellent scrambles to keep drives alive and move the team down the field. The goal line interception sucked, but looking at the replay, I think the ball slipped out of his hand. Still his fault, but I think more of a sucky break than a truly horrible pass (though, if it didn’t slip…it was a horrible pass).
The defense gave Seattle the ability to move, but Seattle just died offensively once they got to the Steeler 30. Every time, they’d do something stupid, drop a pass, catch something out of bounds, throw a pick, take a sack, something.
There was a bit of sloppiness from both teams throughout the game, but the Steelers made the big plays when it mattered, and that was the difference.
The 5th Lombardi to head to Pittsburgh, though the first one I was old enough to actually experience! (I was one and two for Superbowls XIII and XIV.)
He didn’t. He went low to tackle the runner, there was a blocker in front of runner and at game speed it looked like he was cutting the blocker. That was a bad call but I can see why the offical thought it was an illegal block and it wasn’t a reviewable call.
The push off in the end zone might have been slight but it was obvious and it was right in front of the ref. I don’t think he had a choice but to throw the rag.
I’m still not sure if Ben broke the plane on his touchdown. I think he got the ball out over the line very briefly on his way down but I’m not sure. I don’t think the replay showed the “indisputable visual evidence” required to overturn the call on the field, though, so the call to let the play stand was the correct one. By that same token, I think if the call on the field had been that he did NOT get in, that the replay wouldn’t have been conclusive enough to overturn that call either.
The Steelers won because they made a handful of big plays when they really neede them and because Seattle’s two minute offense was terrible. Why was Hassleback throwing all those stupid little five yard outs at the end of the game? At that point in the game you have to throw it in the end zone almost regardless of whether anyone’s open or not. It’s deperation time anyway, so you might as well throw into a crowd and hope you get a lucky deflection or miracle catch. Those little dink and dunk passes do nothing but take time off the clock.