worst bowl ever

I am absolutly discusted at the ref job done at the superbowl this year. The steelers are out played, and mereley winning because of some of the worst calls (and reviews) I have EVER seen in NFL history. I am sure I have lost faith the officiating representatives health plans, at least as far as optomitry is involved.

I have not even like many of the comercials :( total bummer

Anyways, what are your thoughts on the bowl so far? Gratned, I am asking at the third quater, but I think I am done watching it this year.

Biip

You're dead on, bipper. This is a travesty.

Yeah pretty crappy.

This is the most boring one I've ever seen. That's even including the 2 consecutive years I was sick to the point of feeling like burning myself to know I was alive..... but I'm friggin sick again THIS YEAR!!!!! Not as bad, aware enough to know how STUPID the ref is and how boring the game is... The halftime show was good though!

Well to top it off the worst team in the match won, and because of bad calls. I hate ABC just as much for hardly even questioning this questionable game. Thier half time coverage was horible. The fact of the matter is that the seahawks owned this game, and the stealers walk away with the completley undeserving win, and cocky smiles like they think they deserved the win. I even liked the stealers, until tonight. There is somehing called class, and that is somthing obviously absent on the Steelers side.

As far as the complete lapse of Accurate officiating, is there any messure that the NFL will ever take to improve it? From what I have seen, the last years have held the WORST calls I can recall. Not just in the superbowl, but in the regular season as well. This super bowl is just the icing on my cake... I am not just trying to rant cause the seahawks I was pulling for lost, but because I was hoping to see a decent football game, obviously somthing this NFL is not capable of providing anymore. Don't blame it on let down either, I am a Vikings fan, I am used to that side of the coin :p

Just as a whole, the NFL dropped the ball on ensuring a good game. As for the half time show, it was pretty cool.

Bipper

This is the first Superbowl I've ever seen, and it wasn't really that exciting. And living in Britain, I didn't even have the benefit of seeing the commercials.

I hate the guys in the yellow pants! (Steelers but yellow pants guys is a better name)

Oh wait, is THAT the Superbowl trophy? That's so...underwhelming.

Psychotic, you should've watched a couple years ago. New England vs. Carolina was a terrific Super Bowl.

FOOTBALL

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Originally Posted by Psychotic

This is the first Superbowl I've ever seen, and it wasn't really that exciting. And living in Britain, I didn't even have the benefit of seeing the commercials.

I hate the guys in the yellow pants! (Steelers but yellow pants guys is a better name)

Oh wait, is THAT the Superbowl trophy? That's so...underwhelming.

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Of course you hate the Steelers. They did not deserve the win, incurring your wrath.

Mind you, the Seahawks made a couple of dumb plays, but still. I could have done a better job of officiating, and my experience extends to some videogames. =/

Overall though, I'd have to lay the blame squarely with Grant Wistrom.

This year's superbowl and the connected commercials were ass.

FABIO? I mean, c'mon.

You're right bipper. Terrible calls. Especially the offensive pass interference called on that touchdown (Can't remember who caught it)

Thank god its over

*has nothing to say as he is a die-hard Steelers fan*
Just deal with it.
:)
Edit: And of course they're going to walk away with cocky smiles.
They WON the Super Bowl. They got everything they wished for.
You don't walk with a smug look of disappointment.

I don't see how the Seahawks could've won if the refs made any different calls. They didn't lose any turnovers or TDs. They lost one 20 yard or so catch to Stevens and that's about it.

However: the "incomplete" pass to Stevens in the first quarter was a fumble. As was Hasselbeck's dive who was "down by contact" because someone touched his jersey as he was going down.

EDIT: I watched the game with people who hated the Steelers and were rooting for the Seahawks, and they had no complaints. In fact, they admitted that the refs screwed the Steelers over for those two plays that should've been turnovers.

If a guy is going to the ground and gets touched, that is considered a tackle. That call was right to be overturned.