I know I'm a couple days late writing about the Super Bowl but lay off me. I've been busy. I've calmed down significantly since the game ended but there's still some issues that I have to comment on. First off I'm a bit of a conspiracy theorist, especially when it comes to what's referred to as the 'east coast bias'. The NFL will do everything in it's power to prevent a smaller market, west coast from winning the Super Bowl for monetary reasons. Face it, who will sell more Super Bowl champion crap? The Seahawks/Cardinals or a team with one of the largest, national (only God knows why) bandwagons? Not a tough one. And I (among many others) have sufficient evidence to support that Pittsburgh was the beneficiary of two zebra crews and their terrible towels...er...penalty flags. I don't really want to bring up Super Bowl XL but I think we can all agree that the officiating in that game was very suspicious. The Seahawks dominated that game offensively as far as yards go but couldn't get in the endzone because...well we all know why.
There were plenty of flags in Super Bowl XLIII and most of them (11 total to pitt's 7) went against Arizona...shocking. The first notable no call was on James Harrison's INT return. Yes it was a hell of a play that proved to be the difference in the game. I'm not taking any credit away from him but watch the replay. Warner had the best chance initially to make the tackle but was blatantly held. In a game where not one holding penalty was missed against AZ it seems a bit convenient to miss that one. Throughout most of the 2nd half I didn't see anything too obvious...until the end of the game. Look at the picture above. I thought the rule was both feet had to be on the ground with possession, not one foot on the ground and the other just above the ground but touching the grounded foot with possession. This was even reviewed and still upheld. Immediately following this play comes Santonio Holmes' extremely original and cool celebration where he uses the ball as a prop and pretends he's Lebron preparing for tipoff (way to go buddy). I can't think of anytime throughout the season where an official let any endzone celebration slide. Hell even the college guys didn't miss Jake Locker's emotional outburst. Should have pushed Jeff Reed's (awesome bleach job and all) kickoff back 15 yards. And finally let's not even bother to review the last throw Warner attempted. His arm may have been moving forward, maybe not. But who cares...it's only the Super Bowl. Fumble, Pittsburgh ball, take a knee and let's start celebrating. Good for you NFL.
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