Soup-er Douper Bowl, Updates Options

[Mynzeyes]

No I would not have called that a touchdown. The official didnt even call it until AFTER he moved the ball. It was total BS.

Do you ever watch football? Having a call from an official a few seconds after the game is over is FAR from abnormal.. I don't care for either team, and that WAS a touchdown by ben. In the air, the ball got to the line, then he was hit midair which knocked him back a little bit when he hit the ground.

-Josh

Well do you ever speak engrish cuz you just said a few seconds after the game is over. Yeah, I watch alot of football, and have for many years. I saw the tape, I wouldnt have called it a TD.

calls aren't necessarily correct or wrong. some calls are based on the interpretation of the ref. you weren't the ref, he was. that's the important part. a few people wouldn't have called it a TD, and just as many would have (including myself, because it did appear that the tip just did reach the line[and break], but that's neither here no there). discussing it now is futile. it was very grey call, but it was called a TD initially, and there was no way to overturn it based on the replay. nothing was completely visible.

and i didn't win shxt on my work pools. un-w00t. .

This post has been edited by Mynzeyes: Feb 5, 2006 - 11:21 PM

[Cutrara]

Hey what time is that superbowl on tomorrow?

[Consynx]

i think 1pm

[Cutrara]

Great I can't wait I love baseball

[gt_driFFter]

No I would not have called that a touchdown. The official didnt even call it until AFTER he moved the ball. It was total BS.

Do you ever watch football? Having a call from an official a few seconds after the game is over is FAR from abnormal.. I don't care for either team, and that WAS a touchdown by ben. In the air, the ball got to the line, then he was hit midair which knocked him back a little bit when he hit the ground.

-Josh

Well do you ever speak engrish cuz you just said a few seconds after the game is over. Yeah, I watch alot of football, and have for many years. I saw the tape, I wouldnt have called it a TD.

You know what I meant, so trying to take the focus away from your ignorant statement by pointing out a TYPO of mine, was unsuccesful. But, I really don't care about people making excuses because that's probably all I will hear this week from Bengals fans and Seahawk fans alike.

-Josh

[Jen]

Let's not get hostel now. It was just a game.

[creis]

lol stop fighting over the call , its something that will never get setteled, I think it was not a TD and was a bad call, but I was not there I can only go by the camera's angle so who cares, its a lowsy game anyway, only like 10-15 min of real play the rest is walking around and swapping players/positions. that was the first football game i have ever watched and wile i did get a little into it (hometeam thing) it will probably be my last.

[prompt]

the rolling stones really had the worst performance in superbowl history..he is 60yrs old and thinks he can dress like hes in his 20/30's.

[95CelicaST]

the rolling stones really had the worst performance in superbowl history..he is 60yrs old and thinks he can dress like hes in his 20/30's.

And he moves too much. I thought he was going to fall into the crowd a few times.

[BlackCelicaGT94]

I just wanna say Congrats to steelers and the fans. We didnt bring our A game and the refs didnt make some calls they should have and made some calls they shouldnt have. All in all im proud of my hawks! :-)

[BlackCelicaGT94]

Anyone notice that there were alot more commercials with steelers posing with the lombardi trophy than hawks?

but oh well - its all over and the hawks didnt bring it like i thought they would

This post has been edited by BlackCelicaGT94: Feb 6, 2006 - 10:22 AM

[ILuvMyCelica95]

hmmm, i didn't watch this game. I went to the movies. lol Untill yesterday i still didn't know who was playing.

u know Nat my sister asked me yesterday who was playing because she know idk and i was like ohhh i know one team.. the Hawks right? only cause i saw u write a thread about them. I thought they were just the Hawks... not the seahawks... soooo i made an ass of myself. I was so proud i thought i knew the name. I was like oooh The Hawks! u know like the bird... isnt there a team the eagles? Eagles vs Hawks? no? notsomuch? I'm going to stick to smiling and nodding.

This post has been edited by ILuvMyCelica95: Feb 6, 2006 - 10:53 AM

[dstrbcelica]

i was close on my prediction of the final score...w00t

[95CelicaST]

I thought it was pretty ridiculous when Roethlisberger put the ball into the end zone AFTER he was tackled before the line. I don't know why the ref called it fair, it was pretty clear on the replay that he pulled the ball out from under him and that it was behind the line and then moved it in front of his head. Overall I thought the ref's did a sh*tty job calling that game, but oh well, I'm not too much of a football fan anyways.

[Celicas_Secret]

Yep. You're important enough of a person to determine that this was the stupidest Super Bowl of all time based on an opinion. You've got the clout. What a moron.

That was mean

[Supersprynt]

nm. just totally not worth arguing with kids.

This post has been edited by Supersprynt: Feb 6, 2006 - 11:59 AM

[Consynx]

lol

[BlackCelicaGT94]

Steeling One: Hawks Get Robbed

*this was written by Skip Bayless a sports writer whos been tough on the seahawks*

DETROIT -- Dear Seahawks fans:


I've been tough on your team the last few weeks. I've called your club the Sea Frauds and said they didn't belong in a Super Bowl. After watching Sunday night's game, I believe that more than ever.

But, as I've also written, your team was blessed all the way to Detroit. This was the first Super Bowl that found itself with two Cinderella stories. These Steelers, the AFC's bottom seed, weren't exactly Terry Bradshaw's Steelers of the late '70s.

But although these Steelers were favored by 4 -- and although I picked them 24-14 -- I'm not sure they deserved to win this game.

And after spending a week in Detroit, I thought the city had cleaned up most of its crime.

The first-quarter offensive pass interference called on Darrell Jackson that turned a touchdown into a field goal was robbery enough. But the fourth-quarter holding call on Sean Locklear made you wonder whether the refs had even less of Aretha's r-e-s-p-E-c-t for your Seahawks than I do.

At that point, your guys had overcome enough mistakes to get blown out in most Super Bowls. In fact, this one had nearly gotten out of hand midway through the third quarter, when the Steelers drove to a first-and-10 at your 11-yard line with a 14-3 lead. But on third-and-6 from the 7, Ben Roethlisberger tossed a throw into the flat that cost him the MVP award and nearly caused coach Bill Cowher's head to explode.

It was, of course, picked off by backup cornerback Kelly Herndon and returned 76 yards. Matt Hasselbeck's 16-yard touchdown fling to Jerramy Stevens rather shockingly turned what looked like a 21-3 game into a 14-10 margin.

And suddenly your Seahawks were going to Motown.

Momentum Town.

The Seahawks forced another Pittsburgh punt, and here they came again. Hasselbeck still makes me nervous because he always looks as if he's running a frantic two-minute offense. But the biggest surprise of this game was how much time Walter Jones and Co. were giving him to throw. Blitzburg, schmitzburg. Your guys had continually knocked the bullies back on their heels and turned down the volume of a Ford Field crowd that looked and sounded more like a Heinz Field crowd.

Joey Porter, the loudest Steeler, was having the quietest game.

And on first-and-10 at the Steelers' 19, Hasselbeck had enough time to listen to Smokey Robinson and the Miracles' "Second that Emotion" before firing another strike to Porter's favorite pregame target -- Stevens. Eighteen-yard completion! First-and-goal at the 2! Seattle about to take a 17-14 lead!

I could almost hear Mount Rainier erupting.

But on this night, the Steelers had their own version of your 12th Man. He wore a striped shirt and a whistle. He threw a flag.

And Locklear went down in Seahawks history.

Way down.

Until the week before the NFC Championship Game, I barely knew who Locklear was. But he made national news by being charged with domestic violence after an incident with his girlfriend outside a Seattle nightclub. He did a couple of nights in jail, but coach Mike Holmgren allowed him to play pending his Feb. 13 hearing.

Now Locklear will be forever remembered in your fair city for an entirely different reason.

Holding, No. 75!

On the replay, I couldn't see Locklear do anything different from what most linemen do on every play. These days, you have to tackle to hold, and Locklear didn't tackle.

Phantom, killer penalty.

Your guys wound up in a third-and-18, and Hasselbeck cut loose one of his mystery balls that Ike Taylor intercepted, as he should have in the first quarter. Worse, Hasselbeck was wrongly flagged for a below-the-waist block when he was trying to make the tackle. Hasselbeck was punished 15 more yards.

At that point, your guys seemed to be hanging their heads as if they had decided the NFL just couldn't live with them winning its showcase game.

Moments later, it took another Pittsburgh trick play -- a reverse pass by Antwaan Randle El to Hines Ward for a 43-yard touchdown -- to basically ice the game on a snowy night. That made it 21-10, and that's the way it stayed.

Too bad your Seahawks didn't have Porter in their postgame locker room. Had he been a Seahawk, he surely would have filled tapes and notebooks telling the media how the refs stole the game.

Jackson definitely gave Steelers safety Chris Hope a little push. But it didn't give Jackson enough of an advantage to prompt a penalty. The ref called it only after Hope turned and begged for it.

That cost your team four points, a little momentum and a little more psychological edge. The Pittsburgh offense isn't built to come from behind or to win a shootout. A 7-0 Seattle lead would have tightened the Steelers' throats more than 3-0 would have.

The holding call on Locklear clearly cost your Seahawks seven more points. Four plus seven equals 11 -- Pittsburgh's margin of victory. And who knows how the Steelers would have responded if they had suddenly found themselves behind early in the fourth quarter?

No, I haven't yet mentioned Roethlisberger's dive for the goal line that was ruled a touchdown late in the first half -- and upheld after a replay review. To me, it looked as if the nose of the ball barely crossed the white line while Roethlisberger was airborne. Either way, it was so close that it was inconclusive and didn't warrant a touchdown reversal.

Besides, the odds were that Pittsburgh could have scored on fourth-and-inches. Then again, Cowher can be so conservative that he might have opted for the field goal that would have only tied the score 3-3.

The Jackson play, the Roethlisberger play, the Locklear play -- as the Rolling Stones sang in their halftime finale, you couldn't get no satisfaction, Seahawks fans.

Your team had only one turnover to Pittsburgh's two … and your team lost.

Your team held Roethlisberger to a 9-for-21 night for only 123 yards, with two interceptions … and your team lost.

Your Shaun Alexander surprised me by running for almost 100 yards (95 on 25 carries) … and your team lost.

Your offense had almost 400 yards (396) against that vaunted Steelers defense … and your team lost.

In the end, it lost because of two bad calls and because Pittsburgh simply made three or four more good plays. The Steelers converted 8 of 15 third downs to your 5 of 17. Too many drops and near-TD catches, too many off-target flings by Hasselbeck at crucial times, too much high-schoolish clock management by the quarterback and coach at the end of the half and game.

I'm sorry, I still don't think he's a top-echelon quarterback. Then again, I'm not convinced Roethlisberger is the next Elway.

The play he made that salvaged a first-half lead for the Steelers -- the scramble left and deep heave from barely behind the line of scrimmage -- should have been batted down or even intercepted by your safety Michael Boulware. Instead, Boulware made a poor play on the ball and Ward caught it.

On Randle El's trick touchdown pass -- Pittsburgh's best pass of the night -- your cornerback Marcus Trufant took a bad angle and ran underneath it.

So two bad plays by your defensive backs helped Ward -- who had dropped two passes, including one that should have been a touchdown -- win the MVP award. Oh, well, it was the kind of game that should have been played in Week 9. The Steelers didn't have one player on offense or defense who was clearly the difference maker.

Your Seahawks lost this game a little more than Pittsburgh won it.

Your defense battled its guts out and mostly stuffed Pittsburgh's run. But one breakdown allowed Willie Parker to escape untouched for a 75-yard TD. You can't overcome mistakes like that in a game like this.

But, no, you can't overcome 11 lost points worth of penalties, either. On this night, you belonged in the Super Bowl as much as Pittsburgh did, for what that's worth.

On this night, the only frauds wore stripes.

Skip Bayless can be seen Monday through Friday on "Cold Pizza," ESPN2's morning show, and at 4 p.m. ET on ESPN's "1st & 10." His column appears twice a week on Page 2. You can e-mail Skip here.

[boosted_K2]

human error is and always will be a part of sports. the game was lost because seattle CANNOT manage a clock. it made me laugh hysterically when they basically blew 2 minutes worth of clock by running teh worst no huddle offense in superbowl history at the end of the first half. then i donno if it was the spirit of detroit compelling hasslebeck or what, but last time i checked you dont throw over the middle and 3 yard screens with no hope of getting out of bounds when you have no timeouts left with under 2 minutes in the 4th quarter. Reffing aside, they still could not stop the steelers from getting first downs and running clock on their final drive that iced it. All in all, seattle was delt a crappy hand, but they sure as hell didnt do anything to help themselves.


we ran a better 2 minute offense playing intermural flag football.

[Consynx]

lol...damn those zebras

what happened to not caring for the Seahawks much anyways?