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Originally Posted by djtestudo
Hey, if your conscience is OK with having to pay the officials in order for your team to win, then feel free to bitch about our legit complaints.
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there are only 2 calls in that game that are even close to being less than legitimate.
1. Big Ben's TD: which was so close that regardless of what the call was, it would be considered controversial. as I said in my other post, had he been ruled down at the 1 inch line, replay would not have overturned that call either. regardless, however, that call happened in the first half and a truly championship team overcomes something like that. The Seahawks didn't.
2. The Hasselbeck low-block penalty was probably correct according to the letter of the rule, however the rule should be revisited to eliminate that gray area. In my mind, what he did should not be considered a penalty. In any case, that call didn't give Pittsburgh a TD. Seattle's failure to recognize the trick play did.
all of the other calls were 100% correct. to suggest otherwise shows a gross ignorance of the rules.
let me repeat that:
ALL OF THE OTHER CALLS WERE 100% CORRECT.