Do the refs have action on Pitt?
joestalin
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I think so, pathetic!
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<< <i>He wasn't , he was blowing his horn. >>
You needed to edit that? What did you spell horn wrong?
Dan Rooney has a great system for owning the refs in Super Bowls.
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<< <i>Methinks.......absolutely.
Dan Rooney has a great system for owning the refs in Super Bowls. >>
I thought so until the 4th quarter, when almost all the calls suddenly started going against the Steelers.
He wasn't , he was blowing his horn.
I think it's a flute...the skin flute..
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just worry about your Bucs. it was nice for Pitt to win number 6 in your backyard
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That wasn't questionable at all, the defensive guy was tackled in the end zone...
I think the only questionable penalties were a late hit on Ben, and the personal foul on Taylor, when he shoved Boldin when out of bounds.
Ben's overturned TD was atrocious in my mind.
Yes, there were more penalties on the Cardinals but almost all were legit calls.
<< <i>Id rather have only one ring won the real way, rather than a bunch won by the refs!
JS >>
ya okay...tampa choked...Pitts has ring number 6. stick to the trombone.
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<< <i>Losers blame the refs,, .. >>
Unless you're the Seahawks, in which case you very fairly point out that the refs shagged the game to the opposition.
My interest in the NFL began to wane after Super Bowl VX, and it's never really come back. That game was the first time that I found myself having to speculate that the contests may not entirely be on the level.
What Super Bowl was that?
There were some very questionable calls in the Seattle-Pitt SB, but I think it's really a long stretch to think that the league or the officials are deliberately trying to fix a game of this magnitude...Bad calls are just that...bad calls...and they look real bad in retrospect...but bad calls have been or and always will be part of the game as long as humans are officiating...in the end the better teams make the plays and the losing teams don't..
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<< <i>My interest in the NFL began to wane after Super Bowl VX,
What Super Bowl was that?
There were some very questionable calls in the Seattle-Pitt SB, but I think it's really a long stretch to think that the league or the officials are deliberately trying to fix a game of this magnitude...Bad calls are just that...bad calls...and they look real bad in retrospect...but bad calls have been or and always will be part of the game as long as humans are officiating...in the end the better teams make the plays and the losing teams don't.. >>
Super Bowl VX was Sea-Pitt. Is it likely that the fix was in on that game? I don't think so. But it's the first time I really had to consider the possibility. Ditto for game 6 in the Sac-L.A.L series about eight years ago. It's not that the officiating was terrible, it's that it was terrible AND completely lopsided.
The Rooneys must have entered Ford Field with a gun and a mask, because the Steelers flat stole Super Bowl 40. If I were Holmgren I probably still wouldn't be over that.
Edit to add: I meant Super Bowl XL, not Super Bowl VX. No wonder you were confused!
Good calls and bad calls happen, i guarantee they get it right most of the time besides like Parcells said "if you sit and tell me that you loss because a ref blew a call, then you blew the rest of the game"
the game is played over 60 minutes, one or two bad calls in not enough to fix the game - if Warner reads the defense right at the end of the 1st half, they win the game. That's it Warner threw the game, the Steelers won because Warner wanted them to win - sounds absurd? Not anymore than the title of this thread!
Just because your team (or the one you were rooting for) didn't win doesn't mean there was a conspiracy!
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<< <i>Bad calls are part of the game - that does not mean that the refs are fixing the game any more than Kurt Warner tried to throw the game with the pic in the endzone.
Good calls and bad calls happen, i guarantee they get it right most of the time besides like Parcells said "if you sit and tell me that you loss because a ref blew a call, then you blew the rest of the game"
the game is played over 60 minutes, one or two bad calls in not enough to fix the game - if Warner reads the defense right at the end of the 1st half, they win the game. That's it Warner threw the game, the Steelers won because Warner wanted them to win - sounds absurd? Not anymore than the title of this thread!
Just because your team (or the one you were rooting for) didn't win doesn't mean there was a conspiracy! >>
1) Nobody said that just because a team lost there was a conspiracy.
2) One or two blown calls absolutely can change the outcome of an NFL game. To argue otherwise it completely nonsensical.
So you would call Bill Parcells 'nonsensical'?
Dealing with bad calls is a part of the game, just like any other play. All I said is that to suggest that a game is fixed or that a ref is trying to get the steelers to get more yards based solely on those two plays that happen in the second and/or third quarter is pretty crazy.
I think the refs blew the call on hitting Ben R. but that was not the deciding play, i think the int warner threw to end the half or the perfect throw and catch in the final seconds were the reasons the steelers won.
For a guy who believes in total randomness you sure are pitching a suggestive tone
Anyways my responses were for the comments on the steelers getting the advantage of moving the ball in response to Kevin's post. If the play would have happened in the last second of the game like the Miami/OSU game or the time that Colorado (i think) got 5 downs to win OK - I will give you those plays because they had a total bearing on the game. But plays that happen in this SB were not destructive to the Cardinals outcome, their own plays caused that.
Holmes fined $10,000 for Super Bowl TD celebration
Feb 19, 8:17 pm EST
Buzz up!17 votes PrintPITTSBURGH (AP)—Santonio Holmes’ last-minute touchdown catch won the Super Bowl for the Pittsburgh Steelers. It cost him 10 grand, too.
The NFL fined Holmes $10,000 for using the football as a prop during his post-catch celebration, which came well after the play ended. Holmes, impersonating NBA star LeBron James’ pregame ritual of tossing powder into the air, shook the football and tossed it after his 6-yard scoring catch with 35 seconds sealed Pittsburgh’s 27-23 victory.
The Steelers were not penalized for excessive celebration, apparently because the officials were getting ready for the point-after attempt and did not see Holmes’ display in the corner of the end zone.
Two weeks ago, NFL vice president of officiating Mike Pereira said the celebration should have drawn a 15-yard penalty on the following kickoff. Such penalties result in an automatic $10,000 fine.
However, NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said before the Pro Bowl that the NFL competition committee may consider making such celebrations legal if they occur long after a play ends.
“As you know, part of this rule is to avoid having a reaction from opposing players and, from what I could see, only seeing it once, it didn’t seem like it was anywhere near that,” Goodell said.
Holmes auctioned off the gloves he wore during the catch for $70,200, but that money will be donated to charity.
The NFL Network first reported the Holmes fine.
Like I said earlier 4 superbowls won by the steelers and 2 handed to them by the refs
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