If ever there was a Superbowl.....

[JonJon]

The obvious two non TDs stand out but yeah the block call on Hasselbeck and the non-hold on the 3rd down run with four minutes to go were also big.

Yeah I forgot about that other TD...that should have been reviewed because it looked like he kicked the pileon before his other foot went out of bounds.

 

[tnbk]

that was flat out the worst SB I've ever seen with two lukewarm teams and very little action, not to mention little drama. total suckfest. Poor officiating performance too. If those are the best two teams and best coaches and best officiating crew the NFL has, then the whole league sucks, needs to shrink by about 5 teams, go to full time refs, redo the playoff format.

best post ever

 

[BlueStar II]

Yes, it was a rather dull game, and poorly executed by both teams as well, IMO. Let's see if the Pro Bowl next weekend is more exciting than this one was tonight.

 

[JonJon]

If the game was fixed, I think Hasselback was the only one not in on it. The rest of the Seattle players looked like they were down with it. Alexander put on his usual show of not running too hard, the WRs dropped every pass that might be important, and the entire team including the coaches, save Hasselback, looked totally uninspired to play in the SB. No passion whatsoever. Then, 4th down, down 21-10 at midfield with 5 minutes left and Holmgren punts it? ***? Wow, grow a sack dude.

You gotta love that Alexander false start as soon as the camera was on him. Jeremy Stephens had some horrible drops, but so did Hines Ward too.

that was flat out the worst SB I've ever seen with two lukewarm teams and very little action, not to mention little drama. total suckfest. Poor officiating performance too. If those are the best two teams and best coaches and best officiating crew the NFL has, then the whole league sucks, needs to shrink by about 5 teams, go to full time refs, redo the playoff format.

That is a good idea. Next season, the NFL should have an elimination season, in which the 2 sorriest teams get eliminated from the NFL ever year until we get back to 28 teams. That should make the games more exciting, plus the remaining players would be placed in the free agent pool, free to be signed by other teams. If that happened this year, the Texans and the Saints would be gone.

 

[CanadianCowboysFan]

Yeah I forgot about that other TD...that should have been reviewed because it looked like he kicked the pileon before his other foot went out of bounds.

I meant the push off non-TD which clearly was a brutal call. Good thing they didn't call that type of interference when Irvin was with us, he would have had pass interference on every play.

 

[Avery]

NBA game - Game 6, '98, Bulls vs. Jazz.

So many things wrong with that game. Howard Eisley's three with two seconds on the shot clock waved off yet the Bulls get a shot off clearly at least a second after the shot clock expired and counts. Won't even mention Jordan's obvious push-off.

I already responded to the officiating in this game in another thread. Bullet point from that is this: Seahawks got screwed on every key play, never the Steelers.

Definitely screwy.

 

[DLK150]

What really blew my mind was the blocking below the waist call on Hasselback. Ive never even heard of that being called on a defensive player which HE WAS after he threw the int. HUH???? I was actually getting a sick disgusted feeling watching that FIASCO. Anybody else notice that in the commercials in between ALMOST ALL of them were steelers holding the trophy? I DID.

When they said it was on #8, I did a double take and that was it for me. I tried to stay objective, but that play was the call that broke the camel's back. I've never seen that called at any level on a player in pursuit of an opponent. Never. So Hasselbeck was supposed to be blocking for the Steeler?

The BS PI call, the phantom holding call, all the others. You can say Seattle didn't do this or Pittsburgh did that, but those were clear momentum killing, game changing decisions.