Crackle...crackle...
All units be on the lookout for a gang of thieves. Mostly older caucasian males, wearing black and white shirts and ball caps.
Suspected of stealing the superbowl trophy from the Seatle Seahawks and unloading it to Bill Cowher and Jerome Bettis of the Pittsburgh Steelers.
Use extreme caution. Suspects are considered senile, dim-sighted and possibly retarded.
Crackle...crackle...Dispatch out. Crackle....
What a joke. What was a pretty good football game could have been much better if the men in stripes did their job at even a mediocre level of competance. Alas, even that was too much to expect. Pittsburgh's 12th man, in some circles know as the officials, handed them the victory on a silver platter.
They called back a Seahawk touchdown because of offensive pass interference, a call you almost NEVER SEE in NFL football. There was the slimmest of contact between the two players and to call it a "push off" is treading on ice that is so thin it's almost non-existent.
Then later in the game, they awarded the Steelers a td when QB Ben Roethlisberger clearly did not break the plane of the endzone. Worst of all the line judge had a clear and unobstructed view of the play and made the wrong call. Even in slow-motion replay, the head official refused to
overturn the call on the field.
The fix was in.
With those two enourmous blunders by the officials, the final tally would be Seattle 17, Pittsburgh 14. Who knows what the final score would have really been if the officials had done their job.
Momentum is a big part of the game. Had Seatle been awarded that initial touchdown, they may have ended up crushing the Steelers on the scoreboard. They already were dominating them in the first half, even with the officials working against them.
Too bad, it was a good game but the officiating marred what could have been one of the best world championships in recent history.
I'm glad Bill Cowher and Jerome Bettis finally got a championship. It would have been sweeter if they had actually earned their rings.
