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Let’s get a couple of things straight. The officiating this year in the playoffs were atrocious. Bring back Red Cashon please…..FIRST DOWWWWWWWWWWN!

So this isn’t a defense for the officiating. The Super Bowl wasn’t alot better than the rest of the post-season but I don’t think it cost Seattle the game.

Wojciehowski says it best:

The striped shirts didn’t cause tight end Jerramy Stevens to drop four passes. The striped shirts didn’t cause the Seahawks defense to give up a Steelers first down on a third-and-28 situation (which later led to the Roethlisberger disputed TD). The striped shirts didn’t cause the Seahawks defense to give up the longest touchdown run in Super Bowl history. They also didn’t cause Etric Pruitt to sprint up from his safety position, only to be fooled by the trick play that resulted in Randle El’s 43-yard TD pass to Ward (and by the way, if everyone knows the Steelers like to run gadget plays near midfield, don’t you think the Seahawks knew it too?). Or cause Seahawks quarterback Matt Hasselbeck to throw a killer interception with nearly 11 minutes left in the game and Seattle trailing by only four points.

Well….I think that pretty much sums it up. The refs also didn’t manage the clock like Enron handles money at the end of both halves.