The officiating was horrendus! Two big calls from yesterday that would have completely changed the outcome of the game: The Seahawks touchdown that was taken away because of "offensive pass interferance" was bullshit, and the one that gave the Steelers the TD with the QB Sneak was bullshit -- The way the ball was juggling around within his arm, IT never crossed the plane -- His elbow did, yes, but the ball NEVER did. The side angle of that shows clearly that the ball was moving around within his arm and does not get over the line, while the other angle shows that his elbow did indeed cross the line, so the ref had to assume that the ball crossed as well.
There was plenty of holding and pass interferance calls yesterday that were NOT made - of course, I can imagine that they were a bit scared to make any PI calls after the call that "ruined the Pats chances against the Broncos" with Asante Samuel getting called for PI against Ashlie Lelie in the endzone -- even though I'm a Broncos fan, that was really close to being a dumb call...They both had ahold of each other, and it looked more like Lelie pushed his arms within the defenders to make it look like PI when he knew he wasn't going to make it to catch the ball.
Then of course there was the "interception that was then wasn't then was"...I think the NFL felt like they had to make that up by letting a majority of calls go in the Steelers favor for the rest of the playoffs...
Seahawks had the better team, but played the worse 2nd half - but then again, they didn't have the refs in their pocket.
