I Thought About It For a Night

posted by BH

A few things stuck out during this year's Super Bowl. I wanted to give it a night in order to make sure I really felt in the morning the way I did immediately following the game.

-The officiating sucked. On Roethlesburger's dive into the endzone, the official came running out with an arm up, signalling that the play was dead, and Roethlesburger had not gotten into the end zone. About half way there, he raises the other arm, signalling a touchdown. My question is, what the hell happened between the time he left the sidelines signalling that there was no TD and the time he finally raised his other arm that convinced him he saw a touchdown? Had the official continued in his original assemssment that the ball had not cross the goal line, replay would not have overturned it, for the same reason they didn't overturn it in this case. Not enough evidence. The Seahawks were twice denied sure points on iffy calls. The pass interference in the end zone on the Seattle wide receiver was a joke, and it only took the official two seconds after the play was dead to throw the flag. The hold on the ball the Jeremy Stevens caught at the one was equally joke-riffic. Finally, the blocking below the waist penalty against Hassleback after his interception was one of the worst calls I have ever seen. How can you make that call if you're an official?

-Hines Ward had the worst game I've ever seen from an MVP. Two dropped passes. Two of the five he caught involved him being wide open; one on a broken broken play and another on a gimmick. I guess there was no real standout for either team, but guh.

-Way to have a game Joey Porter and Jeremy Stevens. Talk all week, don't show up on Sunday. For a guy who wanted to have Seattle tapping out in the second half, Porter sure had some weak tackles. Three to be exact. And Stevens? 3 catches for 25 yards and at least four dropped balls.

-The best commercial was the Fed Ex one in which the caveman gets stomped by a dinosaur. That may have been the only one I really laughed at.