Author Topic: Steelers Win!!!!!!!!!!! (Read 1015 times)

RAIDER14 · « **on:** February 05, 2006, 09:06:06 PM »

Steelers are the Superbowl champions after pwnding seattle

~~SEAHAWKS fans:rofl~~

LePaul · « **Reply #1 on:** February 05, 2006, 09:09:14 PM »

Yep, they pulled it off.

Good game tho, one of the few i didnt walk away from after the half

o0Stream140o · « **Reply #2 on:** February 05, 2006, 09:10:29 PM »

WWWOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHHHHHHHHHHHH OOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!

soda72 · « **Reply #3 on:** February 05, 2006, 09:11:03 PM »

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #4 on:** February 05, 2006, 09:14:30 PM »

what is Ripsnort doin right now:rofl

soda72 · « **Reply #5 on:** February 05, 2006, 09:16:03 PM »

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Originally posted by RAIDER14
what is Ripsnort doin right now:rofl

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Roscoroo · « **Reply #6 on:** February 05, 2006, 09:26:41 PM »

The Ref's wrecked the game in the 1st quarter ... 2 bad calls

offensive pass interferance ... WTFrell is a call like that ? they may as well take off the pads and play touchme feelme ...

it shoulda been alot closer game.

oh well.

Sixpence · « **Reply #7 on:** February 05, 2006, 09:38:56 PM »

100 bucks down the drain, teach me to bet on a paper tiger.

Congrats Steelers, it was the best post season run ever, you truly earned it.

lasersailor184 · « **Reply #8 on:** February 05, 2006, 09:43:48 PM »

Yes, bad calls on the Refs. How dare they not let a wide reciever push off of a cornerback!

RAIDER14 · « **Reply #9 on:** February 05, 2006, 11:24:07 PM »

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DoKGonZo · « **Reply #10 on:** February 06, 2006, 12:27:31 AM »

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Originally posted by Roscoroo
The Ref's wrecked the game in the 1st quarter ... 2 bad calls

offensive pass interferance ... WTFrell is a call like that ? they may as well take off the pads and play touchme feelme ...

it shoulda been alot closer game.

oh well.

Agreed. Many of the calls were plain bad. And some were only being called on one team. The ref's also sealed the game in the 3rd quarter with more bad calls. The one against Hasselbeck for the chop block after the T/O (or whatever excuse they made up) was lame beyond measure. That's when I really felt the game was rigged. That, and when they gave the Steelers the time-out in the 4th when the play clock had clearly run down.

The officiating has been rotten all through the playoffs; I lost track of how many games I watched that they decided in the first quarter with horrible calls. Without those 2 or 3 bad calls in the first quarter Seattle would have been up by 10 points at the half and then its a completely different game. Pitt executed better down the stretch, so they could have come back. It would have been a much better game that way.

I wonder if the NFL has been talking to Vince McMahon about moving more into "sports entertainment" - today's game made me think of pro wrestling for some reason.

jab116 · « **Reply #11 on:** February 06, 2006, 02:40:47 AM »

Steelers earned it. 15 / 1 last season & no superbowl ring. This season they won the games that really meant something. WTG! The Colts learned the same this year, so next year will be thier earned superbowl, IMHO.

killnu · « **Reply #12 on:** February 06, 2006, 06:10:58 AM »

the chop block, sure was a bad call. want to know what was worse? the pass right before that block, you know the interception. keep on blaming refs for the mistakes. if it helps you sleep at night. how many balls did stephens drop? 2 missed field goals? a few sacks given up at bad time? yea the refs did that. pfft

Ripsnort · « **Reply #13 on:** February 06, 2006, 07:28:39 AM »

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Originally posted by RAIDER14
what is Ripsnort doin right now:rofl

Crying about the most poorly officiated game in the NFL, we out gain the Steelers in yardage, time of possesion, but couldn't pay the refs enough obviously..here is a piece on Fox Sports, and anyone short of being blind knows how Pittsburgh got lucky with the bad calls by the refs.

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Refs were far from Super in this one

Kevin Hench / FOXSports.com
Posted: 5 hours ago

This is the space where I get to crow about the frightening precision of my Super Bowl prediction.

Like a crazed CIA analyst running through the halls of Langley screaming into open offices about some impending calamity, I've been shrieking hysterically about the terrible officiating in the NFL and warning that some day the brutal calls were going to affect the outcome of the Super Bowl.

That some day was Sunday.

Every single questionable, marginal or outright bad call went against the Seahawks.

Their first three big plays were all wiped out by penalty calls. On their second drive, Darrell Jackson caught an 18-yard pass on 3rd-and-6 that would have given Seattle a first down at the 23. But Chris Gray was called for holding James Farrior. When Farrior pushed upfield, Gray did hook him with his right arm, and Farrior went down. When referee Bill Levy flagged Gray, it was a bad omen for the Seahawks. Instead of being on the edge of the red zone, they came away without any points.

On their third drive, the Seahawks looked to take a 7-0 lead when Jackson separated from Chris Hope in the end zone and Matt Hasselbeck delivered a perfect strike to his outside shoulder. The back judge looked uncertain —sound familiar, Patriots fans? — then finally jerked his flag out and called offensive pass interference to wipe out the touchdown. The replay showed receiver and defender hand-fighting with Jackson getting the slightest push into Hope's chest before turning to catch the ball. ABC's John Madden thought the call was dubious. FOX analyst and all-time great offensive lineman Brian Baldinger had no doubts, calling it "absolutely horrendous" on his FOXSports.com Super Bowl Instant Analysis. ESPN's Steve Young and Michael Irvin also had no uncertainty, dismissing the call as ticky-tack and insisting the Seahawks got robbed of a TD.

Then came a huge call on the first play of the second quarter. Peter Warrick ripped off a 33-yard punt return to give Seattle the ball at the Steelers 46. But Etric Pruitt was called for holding. How clear was it? Well, Madden thought the call was for Pruitt holding the gunner at the beginning of the play. It wasn't. The flag came in during the runback and it looked pretty minor. Another example of an official searching to make a call.

So despite totally dominating the first 20 minutes of the game, the Seahawks led only 3-0.

Then came Pittsbugh's first touchdown. Whether you think Roethlisberger broke the plane of the goal line seems to depend on which team you were rooting for. The odd part was the line judge seemed to have determined that Big Ben had come up short as he ran in from the sideline. Since Roethlisberger had been pushed back well short of the goal line I don't know what he could have seen as he got closer to the pile that would have made him change his mind. But up went the arms. Had Roethlisberger been ruled short of the plane, that call would no doubt have stood too. But you figure the Black and Gold would have pounded it in from the two-inch line on fourth down so there's not that much here for Seattle fans to complain about except for the continuing storyline that every single call was going the Steelers' way. And the worst was yet to come.

The Seahawks were on the verge of taking a 17-14 lead early in the fourth quarter when officiating disaster struck. Hasselbeck had drilled a pass down the seam to Jerramy Stevens to set up first-and-goal at the one when suddenly Levy appeared in the middle of the screen to call the play back on account of holding on Sean Locklear. No less a source than newly-minted Hall of Famer John Madden came right out and said it was a bad call. This penalty was beyond ticky-tack. Baldinger called it "another terrible call" and added that the Steelers were offsides on the play. It was yet another official searching for a call, desperate to throw his flag, yearning to impact the action. Why, why, oh, why? That's 14 points the officials simply took away from the Seahawks. Incredible.

After a sack, Hasselbeck threw a pick and then was penalized 15 yards for making the tackle. I'm not kidding. The same thing happened in the Indy-Pittsburgh game in the regular season. It's like the officials become so discombobulated during the change of possession that they just randomly start throwing flags. The call was that Hasselbeck had thrown an illegal block below the waist on the return. Never mind that Hasselbeck wasn't trying to block anybody and did, in fact, make the tackle. Just another terrible call that cannot be reviewed in Paul Tagliabue's NFL.

The Steelers took quick advantage of their enhanced field position and just like that it was 21-10 Pittsburgh when it should have been 17-14 Seattle.

But the stripes weren't done.

First, they blew a fumble call on the field — of course against Seattle — before overturning it after replay. Then, with the Steelers trying to run out the clock, Levy granted Roethlisberger a timeout, even though the play clock clearly read zero before the quarterback signaled for time. It ended up being the final bad call in Seattle's coffin.

As Madden and Al Michaels watched the replay they shared a laugh about a similar bad non-call in an earlier playoff game between the Bears and Panthers. This is what it has come to: Announcers comparing the bad calls happening before them to the bad calls from earlier rounds of the playoffs. Is this really what the NFL wants?

Yeager · « **Reply #14 on:** February 06, 2006, 07:48:31 AM »

Lets do best 2 out of 3