The Fix Is In?

[wolfeskins]

it wouldn't surprise me if the game was fixed, i do believe games and/or other sporting events have been fixed before, so why not the nfl ? that was definately the worse officiated game that i have ever seen, and every bad call went against seattle. they were not just little, petty calls. they were major, game changing calls.
taking a td away from seattle
giving a td to pitt.
taking away first and goal from seattle

thats 17 or 21 points.

[wolfeskins]

all i know is the nfl loves good stories , and whats a better story than the steelers, being the 6th seed win the super bowl with the 2nd youngest qb in it's history and in detroit where the beloved bus is from and will retire after winning his only championship.


was the game fixed ? who knows but to simply say that there is no way it could have been is being naive. the people who run the nfl are very powerful people. powerful people can do powerful thing without anyone knowing.

[skindogger47]

Say what you will about this Super Bowl, but I will be GOD DAMNED if the Patriots/Raiders AFC Championship game a few years back wasn't rigged. Not even citing the invention of the tuck rule as evidence, though that is a perfectly good argument. But when the Raiders took a timeout when the Pats didn't have any so that a ground crew could shovel snow for 35 seconds around where the Pats were kicking their field goal, when any snow there at all would have prevented the kick from going in. Not to mention earlier in that drive when Brady clearly did not get out of bounds and they stopped the clock anyway.

And how many people here just knew in their heart that Vanderjagt was going to miss that field goal? I knew he'd miss it, just not by 30 ****ing yards. Vegas and politics rule sports. It was also funny that another Seahawks touchdown would have not only covered the spread, but the over as well. You just have to watch the game like you watch the commercials--it's all a production.

[skindogger47]

My friend who is a die hard Steelers fan was watching the game and laughing the entire time, telling me how fixed the game was. I didn't disagree with him. Human error has been a scapegoat for consistent ridiculous calls. That's the problem, is the consistency with which these calls are made, and that they are not as "random" as some would like to believe.

[amorentz]

Originally Posted by Mattyk72

Elvis is alive too.

Yea, I heard he was partying with Biggie and Tupac at the Super Bowl!

[SmootSmack]

I'm going to merge this with a similar thread already started by Offiss

[Warpath]

dispute that

[wheeler]

Originally Posted by jdlea

There weren't even that many bad calls in that game. The pass interference call was iffy, but either way I think it was close. I think D Jack pushed off, that's just me, whatever the case, Patten got called for less on a TD catch against Denver so that call is out.

The big one is the holding call when Seattle had the big play nullified. That one was obviously a bad call, but you never know, the refs get the number wrong all the time, it could have been on someone else on the line.

The Big Ben TD: there was no doubt that you stay with the call on the field, there wasn't enough evidence to overturn it. I think he got in, but I don't know.

The Hasselbeck low block was total BS. That was a terrible call, but it was only 15 yards. That's not that big of a deal

What I think is lost in all this is the fact that Seattle came to the biggest game of their lives and couldn't deal with a little adversity. It was a tough game, but you're supposed to be one of the best teams in the league and then a few calls don't go your way and you can't respond? That's just sad. It pisses me off that Holmgren's crying about it and it's retarded if people think that the game was set up to screw Seattle.

that's just you:confused: ?:vomit: THAT WAS A SEATTLE TD...IFFY THERE WAS NO INTERFERANCE.IT'S THE SUPER-BOWL GET THE CALLS RIGHT . BEN'S RUN WAS NOT A TD JUST ASK HIM(last night on leno's show he said he didn't make it )INSTANT REPLAY GET THE CALL RIGHT (IT WAS A HELL OF ALOT CLEARER THAN THE TAMPA BAY 2 POINT CONVERSION EARLIER IN THE YEAR ).THERE IS A 14 POINT TURN AROUND.YOU DONT KNOW ? I AGREE. WHAT GAME WERE YOU WATCHING ?THE BIG 1 IS A HOLDING CALL ? THEY WERE ALL BIG PIECE OF SHIT CALLS...EVERYBODY KNOWS THE REFS FU CKED UP THIS GAME.IM GLAD THE SKINS DIDN'T PLAY IN THE GAME BECAUSE I'M PISSED OFF FOR A TEAM I DONT EVEN CARE ABOUT..HOLMGREN HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE PISSED OFF EVERY TIME A BIG PLAY HAPPENED IT WAS CALLED BACK.A FEW CALLS BUDDY, YOU MUST'VE BEEN REALLY HIGH NOT TO SEE THE REFS F 'D THIS GAME ALL UP.OR YOU HAD MONEY ON THE THE STEELERS........

[jordanz301]

ok i think we CLEARLY see that big ben had a touchdown....end of story i dnt wanna hear ab that one anymore ....ok the holding and "low block were bad calls.......but thats all they were "BAD CALLS"!!!!!!!!.....i mean cmon......conspiracy?

[wolfeskins]

Originally Posted by Warpath

dispute that

close but no cigar. the ball isn't across the goal line in this picture.

[jdlea]

Originally Posted by wheeler

that's just you:confused: ?:vomit: THAT WAS A SEATTLE TD...IFFY THERE WAS NO INTERFERANCE.IT'S THE SUPER-BOWL GET THE CALLS RIGHT . BEN'S RUN WAS NOT A TD JUST ASK HIM(last night on leno's show he said he didn't make it )INSTANT REPLAY GET THE CALL RIGHT (IT WAS A HELL OF ALOT CLEARER THAN THE TAMPA BAY 2 POINT CONVERSION EARLIER IN THE YEAR ).THERE IS A 14 POINT TURN AROUND.YOU DONT KNOW ? I AGREE. WHAT GAME WERE YOU WATCHING ?THE BIG 1 IS A HOLDING CALL ? THEY WERE ALL BIG PIECE OF SHIT CALLS...EVERYBODY KNOWS THE REFS FU CKED UP THIS GAME.IM GLAD THE SKINS DIDN'T PLAY IN THE GAME BECAUSE I'M PISSED OFF FOR A TEAM I DONT EVEN CARE ABOUT..HOLMGREN HAS EVERY RIGHT TO BE PISSED OFF EVERY TIME A BIG PLAY HAPPENED IT WAS CALLED BACK.A FEW CALLS BUDDY, YOU MUST'VE BEEN REALLY HIGH NOT TO SEE THE REFS F 'D THIS GAME ALL UP.OR YOU HAD MONEY ON THE THE STEELERS........

Trying to read that just gave me a headache, I'm not even going to bother arguing about it with you. Cause that's the furthest thing from a coherent post I've ever seen.

By the way, it's spelled "interference."

[wheeler]

Originally Posted by jdlea

Trying to read that just gave me a headache, I'm not even going to bother arguing about it with you. Cause that's the furthest thing from a coherent post I've ever seen.

By the way, it's spelled "interference."

learn to read english . just take it one word at a time like i did reading you'r painfully ignorant post.You even understood a mispelled word you should be able to read words that are spelled correctly ,this is a football message board not a english class,though i'm sure you know more about writing than you do about football it's obvious to everyone.Just look at your take on the super bowl

[jdlea]

Okay, I'm not gonna argue about this. What is your explanation of what happened?

[wheeler]

it's a shame the rolling stones had to try to save a poorly officiated game that could have and probably did change the final score and super bowl champion

[mohawk]

My Honest Opinion - The Seahawks were robbed!!! I'm not a Seahawk Fan [burgandy & Gold all the way!] but I would like to see a fair game... and that was not a fair game!!!!!