Seattle screwed super bowl

So with that established I'm not going to sit here and tell everyone about the awful calls I saw. This is the first Superbowl appearance for the Hawks so maybe I just haven't noticed it before And if not, why now? I'm sure someone will throw out that it's just the Seahawk fans whining about it And those who have been fans all their life should be tickled pink that we finally made it to the Superbowl, regardless of the outcome.

As Seattle fans we've dealt with these calls all too often. It just piques my interest when people who have no vested interest in the Seahawks see things in a similar light. Vinny still owes us a yard btw. As bad as I felt watching the SuperBowl. That Vinny touchdown is still the worst feeling I have ever felt after a game. Absolutely not. I can't remember a Super Bowl with anywhere near this much controversy about officiating.

Huge difference. The NFL came out and said the ref in the Indy came blew the call, which everyone could plainly see. They didn't so the same about the Superbowl calls. Bottom line is, no matter who you were pulling for, as NFL fans we ALL should be pissed about the fact we were robbed of a potentially great game.

IF Locklear's hold wasn't called or Haggan's offside was , Alexander punches it in from the 1. That makes the score SEA late in the 3rd. What a finish that could of been! We, the fans got jobbed out of seeing a possible 4th and inches from the goal line after Roth came up short. A great play we'll never see because of a questionable initial call. No matter how you look at it, the referees should never be the main topic of conversation after a game, especially the championship game.

We got screwed by the refs. We were robbed of a competitive, entertaining SuperBowl. I don't watch the NFL to see a bunch of white, old guys in matching outfits waving around hankies. If that's what I was looking for I'd go down to the senior center and take in a few rounds of shuffleboard. Yea, I guess when you SLOW the tape down and every move is magnified then it looks like it was a foul.

But if you watch the play in real time it was just a normal thing that happens in the game. There was no way that CB could have made a play on that ball if Jackson never touched him. It was a perfect pass and Jackson had the positioning, putting his hand on the CB had no effect on that play. You be the judge It was pathetic.

Plus they were showing one of these on the screen during the game when the Seahawks were hoping for the booth upstairs to see the replay of Darrell Jackson's pylon catch, and review it. Turns out it was the right call and it's just as well that it wasn't reviewed, but Holmgren was absolutely livid about it and dressing down the officials going into halftime. So you think that in slow motion where every move is magnified it looks like a penalty, but at regular speed it looks like a normal play that happens all the time?

Well, I think you should call the NFL and have them quit using slow motion in instant replay because they've had it wrong all these years. I mean, why would you want to slow it down so you can see things better when you play it at regular unmagnified speed? Steeler Fans:. Seahawk fans:. By the REFS. I am shocked that don't care didn't get more votes. Looks like by a ration, FFToday posters believe Seattle got a raw deal from the refs.

Doesn't mean that other factors weren't involved. It just means the game looked unbalanced from the officiating stand point. Aside from your condescending attitude, your post is chock full of nothingness. Certainly devoid of anything resembling creative or funny, unless you run a laugh track behind it. But you are welcome to your opinion. This board was down for many months, and the awful officiating in the Super Bowl was not discussed as a result.

This poll simply was to let other posters weigh in on the subject, as this was a spinoff from another thread. And 2 out of every 3 posters, a convincing majority, concluded and voted that Seattle got screwed. A nice sampling of public opinion. Congrats on the Super Bowl win. That isn't going to change. But reality is that most people think Pittsburgh got some officiating breaks. That also isn't going to change.

The officiating was terrible the entire playoffs, and that is a shame when you have the most important games of the year, and have officials get in the way. You must be very lonely on your island. You need to be a member in order to leave a comment. Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy! Already have an account?

Sign in here. Sign in to follow this Followers 0. Did Seattle get screwed by the refs in the Super Bowl? Since we didn't have a chance to debate this before.. Prev 1 2 3 Next Page 2 of 3. Recommended Posts. Steel City Blues 0. The Examination: A close examination of the play shows that Hope had close coverage, keeping with Jackson throughout the play.

At the time Jackson reaches his arms out toward Hopeand nudges him "gently" as many Seattle fans might describe , the damage is not evidenced by the severity of his motion—but by the momentum of the defender. Hope's body stiffens, his hips and legs move backward as he loses leverage, allowing Jackson—whose own momentum was thus opposed to the direction of the defender—to separate himself from the corner and catch the football.

The Proof: Watch the impeded progress of the covering defender at the moment of contact by Jackson. The Verdict: An appropriate call, much like the offensive interference penalty against Dallas 's Michael Irvin in Super Bowl XXX, the infraction changed the momentum of two players engaged in an individual battle on the most important segment of the field—the endzone.

The penalty highlighted an obvious violation by Jackson, whose actions were illegal despite the argued non-flagrancy of the act. The Controversy : A holding call in the fourth quarter prevented Seattle from having an opportunity from the 1-yard line to take the lead, trailing The Event : After having a chance to take a lead midway through the third quarter, Ben Roethlisberger threw arguably the worst pass of his career, an interception in the endzone that was returned deep into Pittsburgh territory.

Seattle cut Pittsburgh's lead to , and they moved the ball into the Steelers' side of the field again at the start of the fourth quarter. It appeared as though the Seahawks would have a first-and-goal after a throw to Jeremy Stevens, but the holding call that brought the ball back was the decision that had fans in the state of Washington proclaiming that a fix was in the mix! The Examination : While Clark Haggans got behind Sean Locklear heading toward the passer, the lineman used his arm to slow down the Steelers linebacker.

While there appeared to be no holding, Seattle fans also point to the fact Haggans was offside, arguing that a bad call was made against Seattle while a good call was overlooked that would have gone against Pittsburgh. The Proof: Our eyes can be deceptive While it can be argued that Haggans was offsides on the play another close call , it can also be shown that Locklear did hold. If ruled correctly, offsetting penalties would have negated the play anyway.

The Verdict : Locklear held. Haggans was offsides. Even if Seattle was robbed by a bad call, as Seahawks fans would naturally argue, it was no excuse for the fact that In the video above, Bill Hillgrove talks about a great book title, and he dubs it "Seattle Sour Grapes.

After the holding call against Locklear, Seattle did nothing to minimize the damage or to demonstrate their ability to overcome adversity. In fact, they robbed themselves of key points, as Matt Hasselbeck threw an errant toss into the hands of Ike Taylor. All notions of a championship robbery have to be treated as cynicism at best whenever the accusers clearly buckle under pressure.

The Controversy : At the end of the first half, many fans believe that Ben Roethlisberger did not score a touchdown on his bootleg run as the ball did not cross the goal line. The Event: Trailing and having played anemically on offense, the sophomore quarterback from Pittsburgh showed great aplomb on a scramble to the left, stopping at the line of scrimmage and completing a pass across the field to Hines Ward on third-and-long.

The magnificent play set up a sequence of downs in which the Seattle defense responded proudly. The third play, however, was a quarterback bootleg, and Ben Roethlisberger dove toward the goal line on a touchdown run that was a matter of inches—if that! The Examination : Skeptics of the call cite that Roethlisberger placed the ball over the goal line after he landed short of the endzone.

To focus on this action shows an ignorance of the ruling, as the events that transpired after Ben fell to the ground are irrelevant to the ruling. Many argue that his decision to move the football indicated his own belief that he didn't score on the play. His decision to stretch the ball was a competitive natural reaction, but it did not demonstrate any knowledge on his part that the football didn't cross the plane of the goal line—the action was too close to see with a naked eye during the action on the field.

From Ben's point of view, it would have been impossible to determine. During the deepest point of Ben's lunge, before being knocked backward, the location of the nose of the football is the determining factor.

The Proof : While various charts and geometrical measures have been used to try to determine the accuracy of the call, the angle of the camera plays tricks and there was no percent definitive way to overrule the ruling on the field of a touchdown.

Of most importance, however, is to view the play while Ben is lunging, trying to determine if any part of the ball crossed any part of the white line while Roethlisberger was in the air. The Verdict : It appears the nose of the football crossed the goal line by a fractional margin. Nevertheless, with no definitive evidence to the contrary, the play was appropriately and I believe correctly called a touchdown.

Like any NFL game, the result of action on the field isn't limited to the plays that stand out and make the highlight reels. Many actions, large and small, comprise the end result, and violations are missed in every contest.

That particular infraction is supposed to carry with it a yard penalty and automatic first down, as former officiating czar Mike Pereira astutely pointed out. But instead the refs erroneously called running into, not roughing, the kicker — a meaningless penalty that ultimately had zero effect.

The rules on this matter could not be more clear; it is literally the first item listed as to what constitutes a roughing call. Item 1. Roughing the kicker. It is a foul for roughing the kicker if a defensive player:.

It was as clear and obvious as it gets, with two officials staring right at it. And they absolutely botched it.

So Seattle got the ball to start a possession it did not deserve. But if the prior egregious officiating error can be written off as simply a blown call that inevitably occurs in sports from time to time, the glaring administrative error committed by the officials that was about to come was unequivocally inexcusable. To reach the yard line, Seahawks quarterback Russell Wilson connected with tight end Zach Miller on the first play of the fourth quarter.

That play ended with left on the game clock, and, facing a fourth-and-7, Pete Carroll spent some time deliberating as to whether he wanted to go for it or send Hauschka out there to try a long field goal. He wound up calling on Hauschka , then reconsidered and called a timeout. The NFL play clock is 40 seconds. Uhhhh, excuse me?