That would have been the chant in Detroit Sunday if the stadium wasn’t at least 98% Steeler’s fans.
I know this is already tired and most of youhave read almost this exact same thing yesterday, but fuckin’ shit, c’mon! Luckily, for the first time in years, I did not bet any money on the Super Bowl this year. If i had put money on the Seahawks (which i may or may not have) I would be really really pissed about this instead of just really pissed about it.
For those of you that didn’t watch the game (yer all terrble Americans!) there were some pretty big calls that were bad. Ok, i’m lying, there were some REALLY HUGE calls that were AWFUL! First came the alleged push-off by Jackson in the endzone. That’s a touchdown in preseason, let alone the damn Super Bowl (where I remember a time when “that’s not gonna get called in the Super Bowl” was something you heard every year.) Also, Big Ben’s touchdown…not a touchdown. Nuff said.
The holding call on Hasselbeck’s 3rd down pass to the one: not holding. Hasselbeck was also called, as you may remember, for hitting below the knees, illegal if yer blocking, but legal if yer tackling. Guess which one he was doing. RIGHT — tackling…gross.
Also there was a horse collar tackle on Shaun Alexander that wasn’t called, but could have been er..i mean should have been. Look at that list! Bullshit! Super Bowls are supposed to suck because it’s a blowout, not because the ref’s are idiots (or cheating, the ref that threw the pass interference flag on Jackson: oh yeah, he’s from Pittsburgh. I’m just saying…it looks a little fishy. Ok, a lot fishy). This made me cry, and I couldn’t have written this until today. Too upset.
Now, I know people are going to say that Pittsburgh probably would have won anyway and they would probably be right. BUT MAYBE NOT! And even so, wouldn’t it be great to be talking about “Randle El’s td pass to Heinz Ward” or “Bettis’s td run on 4th and inches after Ben Roethlisberger barely missed a touchdown on third and goal” (didn’t happen, but probably would have). Wouldn’t that be great? Fuck yes it would.
But no, the ref’s in the NFL as a whole are getting worse and worse. Anyone who watches a decent amount of football can feel me here. Fulltime ref’s are not the answer — it’s these dopes they’ve got doing it. How about this: let’s punish these Super Bowl refs by having them call every single Arizona football game next year (in the event that the impossible happens and the Cards start winning, send them to San Fransisco). Just make an example of them.
Either that or fire all of them and have us beer-drinking-experts take over.
Ok that was a dumb joke. But seriously, football makes me happy, and it makes me sad when it goes away. Usually, though, I have a good Super Bowl, or a won bet, to tide me over until next season.
This year I have neither.
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February 7th, 2006 at 6:35 pm
Word.
Just like Bill Simmons mentioned — the Super Bowl would have been better if Vince McMahon had scripted the ending — I mean, sure Bettis won his title, but he didn’t even go through New England to get it.
And I quote…
“If this were the WWE, the crowd would have cheered, Bettis would have held the trophy over his head, and then the Patriots’ music would have started playing, followed by Belichick and Brady emerging to a chorus of boos, taunting Bettis with stuff like, “What’s the matter, gettin’ out while you can?” and “You’re not the real champs until you go through us!” And then there would have been a huge fake brawl, followed by Bettis returning the following week for a tag-team match with Cowher as his partner.”
February 7th, 2006 at 11:12 pm
I forgot to mention as well — Seattle wasn’t blameless in this loss. Ask Jerremy Stevens about all of those wide open passes he dropped — regardless of where his feet were.
Also ask Mike Holmgren, and to a lesser degree, Hasselbeck, why they suddenly went all Donovan McNabb and forgot how to run an effective two minute drill. I watched the last two minutes of the game, and (much like last year’s game with Philly) they did little to convince me that they were even trying to win.
Maybe the refs and the ‘Hawks were throwing the game together. Someone check into that.
February 8th, 2006 at 9:17 am
yeah, seattle ended each half running a two minute drill about as well as i could (that’s not bragging about myself, that’s saying i suck). it was pretty ridiculous. like i said, the game probably would have ended the same, but…