You'll never hear a peep out of Killer Ewok, Rock Knutne, Non, Gut, Automatic or anyone else acknowledge this ref's mea culpas. It's the way they roll....It's the way all Steeler fans roll. It's one thing to have pride in their team...yet another when they can't admit to the obvious...Lombardi Trophy tainted by crooked refs. LOL.

Footwedge;444304 wrote:You'll never hear a peep out of Killer Ewok, Rock Knutne, Non, Gut, Automatic or anyone else acknowledge this ref's mea culpas. It's the way they roll....It's the way all Steeler fans roll. It's one thing to have pride in their team...yet another when they can't admit to the obvious...aombardi Trophy tainted by crooked refs. LOL.

you have issues.

Footwedge;444304 wrote:You'll never hear a peep out of Killer Ewok, Rock Knutne, Non, Gut, Automatic or anyone else acknowledge this ref's mea culpas. It's the way they roll....It's the way all Steeler fans roll. It's one thing to have pride in their team...yet another when they can't admit to the obvious...Lombardi Trophy tainted by crooked refs. LOL.

If anything it was the unprecedented crowd of Steelers fans that influenced the officiating in that game. That just shows the Steelers are awesome, all the same.

LJ;444280 wrote:2.5 hours to cleveland, 2 hours to Cincy, 2.75 hours to Pittsburgh, does it really fucking matter who I root for?

Borders outweigh miles.

hoops23;444352 wrote:Borders outweigh miles.

How did that border theory work out with LeBron?

If the refs had flagged the other dozen plays Harrison was held then that one wouldn't have mattered (which was still a hold, by the way, unless I missed the rule change where hooking and clotheslining was legal).

And the NFL had already said the Hasselbeck block was a blown call. The only blown call the league admitted to (and most objective analysts agreed).

Footwedge;444304 wrote:You'll never hear a peep out of Killer Ewok, Rock Knutne, Non, Gut, Automatic or anyone else acknowledge this ref's mea culpas. It's the way they roll....It's the way all Steeler fans roll. It's one thing to have pride in their team...yet another when they can't admit to the obvious...Lombardi Trophy tainted by crooked refs. LOL.

LOL....It probably would just mean Ben would have two historic game-winning SB drives instead of 1. SEA had their chances, they blew it. Calls went against PIT. Non-calls went against PIT. It was a boring and sloppy game that the media tried to inject some controversy into - as they tend to do - by focusing on blown calls that simply weren't.

I'm sure someone will post that list of some 40 reasons or whatever it was why people who think the refs cost SEA the SB are idiots.

They let that hooking of the pass rushers go all the time in the regular season and it's ridiculous. Harrison would have 30 sacks if he wasn't held so much.

I never felt for a second that play in the Super Bowl was an obvious bad call. Borderline type, yes, but not an obvious blown call.

ummmmm......has anyone ever heard the term..."get over it".........


I mean, it was four years ago.


jheesh

Ironman92;444258 wrote:This is huge!

Funny how the refs cheated Pittsburgh just as bad if not worse against the Colts in Indy that same year....yet the Steelers found a way to win.

Don't even remind us Colts fan about that game. Ugh it just kills me to even think about why that dumbass Nick Harper decides to run RIGHT AT Roethlisberger after picking up that fumble. Dude, you're a quick, black defensive back; he's a slow, white QB. Run around him!

Sorry but that game still stings for me, and then to see the Steelers go on the win the SB like that just rubs salt in the wounds.

Footwedge;444304 wrote:You'll never hear a peep out of Killer Ewok, Rock Knutne, Non, Gut, Automatic or anyone else acknowledge this ref's mea culpas. It's the way they roll....It's the way all Steeler fans roll. It's one thing to have pride in their team...yet another when they can't admit to the obvious...Lombardi Trophy tainted by crooked refs. LOL.

Do you seriously believe this or are you just trying to cause a stink. I hope it's just trying to cause a stink because if it's not, then you are the biggest fucking idiot on here...and there are many in contention. It's funny, I saw all the Lombardi's together...they all looked the same, one wasn't more "tainted" than the others. Yes, that was 6 of them....jealous your shitty team can't even sniff playoffs?

At least as a Brown's fan you'll never have to worry about the Brown's having a Lombardi Trophy 'taken away crooked refs'. You got to get there first troll.

ummmmm......has anyone ever heard the term..."get over it".........


I mean, it was four years ago.


jheesh

If geography figures into your fandom AT ALL, you are a retard.

That is all.

I've always kind of felt that officials cheat and impact the games, depending on the momentum, the environment, etc.

I've called it out on here in several sports whether it's college basketball, college football, the NFL and so on.

You could seriously make a case for New England's Super Bowls being tainted, too. Not just with spygate but the officials clearly gave them some calls in 2001 when they were pushing the united team angle. They also allowed their defensive backs to hold the receivers excessively in the 2001 AFC Championship Game against the Steelers, then against the Rams in the Super Bowl and a couple years later against the Colts. Finally after that game they cracked down on it.

My feeling is, you kind of have to win that battle, too.

If you just take last season, the Saints, Vikings and Colts all had that "it" factor going for them. The Saints were a little bigger story than the others. Great football team but did the "football Gods" play a role? I would say yes.

The Steelers have been close enough times where some years they were on the short end but they've been able to come back and be that team in other years.

To continue on that point, I feel like one of the true characteristics of being a great championship team is having that one-upmanship, that last answer, the ability to overcome that situation when it appears the other team has it. Sometimes it might even seem like the other team is meant to win.

The Steelers were in that situation against Arizona after Fitzgerald scored the touchdown. He was the Super Bowl hero. Arizona the cinderella team pulled ahead and they were ready to have their big moment of victory. But then the Steelers instead of having their season end in bitter disappointment, they did something about it. They made the winning plays and won.

Same thing with New Orleans to some degree just because they were facing Peyton Manning.

How about the Giants with that winning drive and the catch by Tyree?

When Cleveland teams are in that situation they crumble. They get the attitude that it's "here we go again" and they just accept another tough defeat.

Despite some of the calls that went against Seattle, they still had a shot to overcome them but eventually they gave in. Turn it around with the Steelers being on the short end of those calls, and I bet they still score a touchdown to make it 21-17 and they get the ball back one last time with a shot to win.

Footwedge;444304 wrote:It's the way all Steeler fans roll.

I beg to differ.

ts1227;444374 wrote:If geography figures into your fandom AT ALL, you are a retard.

That is all.

QFT!

He didn't "admit he cheated", he admitted making mistakes. Just another lie from possibly the least honest poster on the site.

queencitybuckeye;444406 wrote:He didn't "admit he cheated", he admitted making mistakes. Just another lie from possibly the least honest poster on the site.

Technically..the thread says 'he cheated the Seahawks'..so by him admitting he made a mistake against the Seahawks..it would indeed technically be cheating them.

Footwedge;444304 wrote:You'll never hear a peep out of Killer Ewok, Rock Knutne, Non, Gut, Automatic or anyone else acknowledge this ref's mea culpas. It's the way they roll....It's the way all Steeler fans roll. It's one thing to have pride in their team...yet another when they can't admit to the obvious...Lombardi Trophy tainted by crooked refs. LOL.

Now shut the fuck up!

The Steelers definitely were gifted that game by the refs. They allowed Willie Parker to make the longest TD run in Super Bowl history and they set up that reverse pass from Randle El to Ward with shear perfection! They also slipped something in Ben's pregame meal that made him play like shit in that game.

GoPens;444372 wrote:Do you seriously believe this or are you just trying to cause a stink. I hope it's just trying to cause a stink because if it's not, then you are the biggest fucking idiot on here...and there are many in contention. It's funny, I saw all the Lombardi's together...they all looked the same, one wasn't more "tainted" than the others. Yes, that was 6 of them....jealous your shitty team can't even sniff playoffs?

At least as a Brown's fan you'll never have to worry about the Brown's having a Lombardi Trophy 'taken away crooked refs'. You got to get there first troll.

Muhahahaha. I never said squat about the other 5 rings. I'm talking about the Seattle game. The one where the refs cheated Seattle. But just as I had predicted, not one Steeler fan has nor ever will acknowledge that that Lombardi trophy was tainted.

And then the usual pot shot at the Browns. So predictable. I'm old enough to remember the Browns kicking Pittsburgh's ass year after year after year.

rock_knutne;444432 wrote:The Steelers definitely were gifted that game by the refs. They allowed Willie Parker to make the longest TD run in Super Bowl history and they set up that reverse pass from Randle El to Ward with shear perfection! They also slipped something in Ben's pregame meal that made him play like shit in that game.

You fail....We are talking about the game changing calls made by the refs. And it wasn't just this guy. I'm waiting for the back judge to come out of the closet too. The guy that lived in little Washington....that called offensive PI in the end zone.

ts1227;444374 wrote:If geography figures into your fandom AT ALL, you are a retard.

That is all.

Why? True sports fans have a civic pride in rooting for their own city's teams..and to a lesser extent, their home state's team. Do people who grew up in Worthington root for Dublin's high school teams? Die hard, gritty fans form allegiances and bond together that way. It's the way sports shold be. Other fans root for teams outside of their locale because they like the uniform colors, sexy cheer leaders....whatever. I'll never understand it. But that's just me.

queencitybuckeye;444406 wrote:He didn't "admit he cheated", he admitted making mistakes. Just another lie from possibly the least honest poster on the site.

I'm a liar because I started this thread? LOLOLOL. All this from a knucklehead who lays claims that people with the highest income levels are more qualified to voice their opinions on politics. Yup folks....he did say that. Ya just can't make this shit up.

Footwedge;444288 wrote:Like I said...the percentage of gay people is higher in Columbus, then people who root for Pittsburgh.

100% guarantee that isn't true.

Columbus has no football allegiances outside of OSU.