Not a Steelers or Seattle fan so, from an unbiased opinion, here's what I saw.
1) The Seattle P.I. call in the endzone. Should have been a non-call. That stuff goes uncalled 99% of the time. The official did, however, has great position. That's why he called it. Tough break.
2) TD or no TD. Watch the replay of the linejudge who ended up calling the touchdown. His first reaction was to raise his right hand immediately and signal 4th down. When he saw Ben (can't spell the last name) put the ball over on the 2nd effort, both hands came up to signal a TD. He had been down at this time. The reverse angle shows him down and the ball right at the plane of the endzone. This is when the LJ called 4th down. when he pushes the ball forward, it comes from his belly on the 1 yard line and was down. Dead ball. Would they have gone for it and scored on 4th? Probably, but we'll never know.
3) Phantom holding call. Brutal. 1st and goal from the 2 back to 2nd and 20 from the 36.
Congrats to the Steelers. They beat my team on the road to SB XL and are deserving champs. Would those 3 calls made enough of a difference to put Seattle over the top? (Forgot the bad call on Hasselbeck after the INT also)... Possibly, but they should have put Pittsburgh away in the 1st half when they had a chance.
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