Steelers are the World Champions!
In case you've been hiding underground for fear of nuclear fallout because you live in California and think that the West Wing is really the news... The Pittsburgh Steelers have won the Super Bowl and are the World Champions! They soundly defeated the Seattle Seahawks (did anyone really think a team with teal as an official team color could win the Super Bowl?). I will give extra praise to my main man, Hines Ward, who has oftentimes been underrated, under paid and undervalued by the press and others. Hines Ward plays like a football player for the Pittsburgh Steelers should play, with toughness, grit, hard work, no whining, and lots of smiles.
But off in the distance is the sound that kills me. If you've ever seen the Lord of the Rings and watched the flying Ringwaiths, you know how people react to their screams. They fall down, cover their ears and act as though someone has pushed an ice pick in their temple. The results are the same for me when I get around whining. So I've pulled myself up off the floor, uncovered my ears so that I could type this and have decided to share with you Seahawks fans a very well written article. Seahawk fans in case you didn't see it. Behind you is your chance to win the Super Bowl this century. Ahead of you the opportunity to quit whining and join a true football team worth rooting for, the Steelers.
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You obviously did not watch the Superbowl. Seattle racked up 569 total offensive yards..oh wait the REFS...yes called 5 penatlites that negated 176 yards...
Fact:
Seattle produced more yards
Seattle soundly handled the so called steel curtain.
Seattle had less turnovers.
Seattle should have won...and did win.
The only team that was playing wearing black and white were the Zebras running around! aka refs.
How do you call a blocking penalty on a QB who is making a tackle? What were the refs watching obviously not the game...
And RoethelesBUGER...ball never croosed the plane..watch the replays...ball was parallel with the goal line...and never broke it...
And Offensive passing interference... I like what Steve Smith said...."ha ha ha...I am not sure what game the refs were watching!"
And...enough said... ANYONE watching the game knows the officiating affected the outcome... Thank you to 71.9% of ESPN Fans for agreeing with Seahwawk Country
Without the two phantom (PI, holding) penalites... Seahawks would have been up 17-0! At half...
Sean Salisbury of ESPN is right.. "had the refs got just half the calls right...Seattle would have blown out the Steelers."
And FYI ...teal is no where to be found on the Seattle Jersey's... that would be the Dolphins...
We will be back...unless the black and white stripes...choose otherwise
STEELERS GOT LUCKY
FROM ESPN -
Brooke (WA): How can you say "But the Seahawks had opportunities to overcome some of these penalties and they duidn't do it."? The question is "Why should they have to overcome bad calls"? Clearly bad calls affected the game and as the ESPN polls show, probably changed the outcome.
Mort: (12:26 PM ET ) I think I've stated pretty clearly that the Seahawks got the raw end of the officiating and, yes, I believe these calls probably cost them the game. I think they could have been up 16-3 at halftime and who knows how that would have changed the tone of the game?
The only thing Seattle didn't handle was the refs....
Seahawks won everything but the game ....
In case the football fans of the Pacific Northwest aren't sick enough in the aftermath of the big game, they may want to know that no Super Bowl loser has ever dominated a title game like the Seahawks did on Sunday.
I was so sure that Seattle's edge in total yards, time of possession and takeaways in a losing effort was unprecedented that I scoured all 39 previous Super Bowl box scores to prove it. Yep, just as I suspected, no losing team had ever matched the Seahawks' trifecta. Quite a few teams had won the time of possession battle and lost. A handful had put up more total yards and lost. And a couple had even won the turnover battle and lost. But no team had ever done all three and come away with an L.
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Instant Analysis: Brian Baldinger
CZAR: Win was old school
SCHEIN: Steelers cap Super run
HENCH: Refs were far from super
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Schrager's Super Bowl blog
Super Bowl pop culture review
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All-time NFL championships
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Not until Sunday. Not until the Seahawks outplayed the Steelers on the vast majority of plays and still lost, thanks largely to two dubious penalty calls that cost Seattle a TD and a first-and-goal at the 1.
This was a historic, first-of-its-kind Super Bowl loss. I don't want to take anything away from the Steelers, except, of course, the Lombardi Trophy.
Seattle outgained Pittsburgh 396 yards to 339. Only five times in Super Bowl history had the loser gained more yards than the victor. And only twice — in Joe Montana's first win over the Bengals and Tom Brady's first win over the Rams — had a team been outgained as badly as the Steelers and won. (I guess this bodes well for Ben Roethlisberger.) But in both those victories, the Niners and Patriots had been +3 in the turnover battle. Pittsburgh was -1. More on that later.
Seattle had the ball for over 33 minutes, building a large time of possession edge as Pittsburgh failed to get a first down in the game's opening 19 minutes. While 10 teams have won the time-of-possession battle and lost the Super Bowl, only four losers surpassed the Seahawks' 6:04 edge in possession. And only twice in the history of the big game had a team gained more yards and led in time of possession and lost. Brady's Patriots were not only outgained by the Rams, but Kurt Warner's quick-strike attack actually held the ball for seven more minutes than New England. The lone other time this statistical quirk occurred was when Pittsburgh lost to Dallas in Super Bowl XXX. So maybe Sunday was a kind of karmic payback for the Steelers, who outgained the Cowboys 310-254 and held the ball for 7:38 more than Dallas in 1996.
Of course that loss was marked by the fact that Neil O'Donnell kept throwing the ball to Larry Brown. The Steelers were -3 in turnovers in that loss to the Cowboys, just as the Rams were against the Patriots.
Winning the turnover battle has been the single best harbinger of victory in Super Bowl history. Only twice prior to Sunday had a team given the ball away more than it had taken it away and yet still taken home the trophy.
In Super Bowl V — the ugliest Super Bowl of all time — the Cowboys managed to lose to the Colts despite a +3 edge in turnovers. The game featured a record 11 turnovers, an astounding seven by the somehow victorious Colts. Dallas also had a slight edge in possession (+2:46), but Baltimore had a substantial — 329-215 — edge in total yards.
The only other time the turnover winner had lost was in Super Bowl XIV when the Steelers overcame three Terry Bradshaw interceptions and a -2 turnover deficit to beat the Rams and win their fourth championship (one for the pinkie?). Despite the three picks, Bradshaw was named MVP because he threw for 309 yards as Pittsburgh compiled a 393-301 edge in total yards.
So the only two times a team had coughed the ball up more than its opponent and won the Super Bowl, it did so by handily outgaining the loser. But turning the ball over more while being outgained? Surely Roethlisberger's two interceptions to Matt Hasselbeck's one would sink the Steelers.
Not on Sunday. Super Bowl XL was the perfect storm for stormy Seattle. The Seahawks moved the ball better than the Steelers. They kept the ball longer than the Steelers. They held onto the ball more securely than the Steelers. They had six more first downs than the Steelers (20-14), a feat surpassed only twice by losing teams in SB history.
And yet the Seahawks lost.
Seattle fans have a right to feel sick. Their team just suffered the most unjust loss in Super Bowl history.
I'm guessing knowing that the previous 25 teams to gain more yards, keep the ball longer and not lose the turnover battle all won the Super Bowl won't make them feel any better.
I thought I might add just a few comments to hopelessly dis-illusioned Seahawks folks out there.
A few facts for you:
1) The refs did NOT miss two field goals for the Seahawks. Or perhaps my TV wasn't working and I missed them shaking the posts.
2) The refs did NOT through an interception in the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl.
3) The "phatom" blocking call. In a Monday night game THIS YEAR in which Pittsburgh played they were called for the exact same penalty and it was explained as part of the rules as follows. A player cannot go below the waist THROUGH a blocker to make a tackle on the ballcarrier. It's a rule. The refs know them. Apparently many of you who are claiming foul play and are experts in the matter do not.
4) Pittsburgh won the game. Their names are on the trophy. In fact my memory is already fading as to who it was that Pittsburgh defeated.
True.....BUT FOR THE RECORD...
A few facts for you:
1) the field goal attempts would have been within 35 yards without phantom penalties. You can't blame a kicker for missing FGs of 52, and 54 yards.
2) The refs did NOT through an interception in the 4th quarter of the Super Bowl. TRUE, BUT....Seattle would have been up 17-7, and would not have made that throw. They would have been chewing up the clock with the run game.
3) Matt Hasselbeck never went through a player to make the tackle. He only made contact was with the ball carrier. Blocking call was inerror... Use your TIVO
4) 4 to 1 ratio in penalties calls is a little suspicious...
5) Pittsburgh won the game. - True... unfortunately the game will only be remembered as SUPER BAD OFFICIATING.
6) Brian we still love and appreciate you...wish you were here in MD.
10:20 PM
And I thought the conversation on homosexuality was tense...
Hines Ward is the Man...
I will praise Hines Ward for his honesty on ESPN this morning. He admitted the calls were obscure, and he was just happpy he was on the right side of them.
Steeler Nation - follow your example and main man Ward... Thanks for your honesty Ward! Its just too bad your followers are in denial.
You are right Seattle should take responsibility for thier play...
So should the Officiating Crew...negating 176 yards..KILLS MOMEMTUM. AND, ESPN and other players around the NFL have even commented on the SUPER BAD OFFICIATING...
And so should the NFL...the NFL denied hearing Homlgren's response to the bad officiating....SOME ONE IS LYING. I g
But who actually takes responsibility for anything anymore...just look at our national leaders in the past
And...as I continue to wear my Seattle attire... the overwhelming response has been Seattle was robbed...
It is has been funny to see all the terrible towels get thrown back in the closet... I guess thats were they belong!
Let the controversy continue...
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