RiverDog":2ueotes8 said:
jlwaters1":2ueotes8 said:
RiverDog":2ueotes8 said:
oldhawkfan":2ueotes8 said:
I would love to know which 7 the league agreed with.
I think 3 or 4 are pretty obvious. Illegal block by Hasselbeck on a tackle being one!
If I remember right, that call was preceded by a holding call on Locklear that negated a TD pass to Stevens. If memory serves, Hass threw a pick following that aborted TD. The Locklear call was one of the worst and would have had to have made Zorn's list. That sequence was a turning point in the game.
It wasn't a TD he caught it inside the 5 yard line. But everything else is correct. Locklear was called for holding when it appeared the DE was offsides (pretty clear). The next play was the INT that Matt got the insane penalty trying to make a tackle. That game really sucked, but it doesn't sting that much with the recent SB win. Last year's SB loss hurt a ton more IMO.
Yea, I think you're right about the pass to Stevens. I knew it was a big play that got called back. We had a heckuva red zone efficiency that year and it's reasonable to think that we would have punched it in.
As far as that loss sticking with me, I didn't get as hung up on the officiating nearly as much as some of my Seahawk brethren did. Yes, it was a horrible job, one of the worst in big game sporting history. But it's unreasonable to expect for all those calls to have gone our way, and after all, we did lose by two scores, meaning that there wasn't a single call to hang our hats on, such as there was with Don Denkinger's blown call in the World Series. And there were a lot of other factors that the officiating had very little if anything to do with the outcome...such as Josh Brown missing two makeable FG's in a dome that had me made them, would have made it a one score game and changed the character of the 4th quarter. It wasn't the refs that made Mike Holmgren phuck up his game management of the last 2 minutes of the first half, either. Sometimes our rage about the officiating causes us to overlook some of the missed opportunities we had complete control over.
SB 49 was far more devastating to me personally, because we definitely snatched defeat out of the jaws of victory. I still haven't gotten over that one.[/quote]
I don't really understand how 49 could be worse unless you just weren't that invested in 05.
No there wasn't a single call but there were way to many that took away momentum and forced us to play into a situation we (and I don't think any team) knew how to handle. Every big play was met with a flag, every game changing situation was yanked away and for repeatedly false reasons.
It is real easy to sit here and say well we didn't do enough but that pretty much ignores how the game actually works. These aren't robots or video game pieces, they are actual humans with real emotions. Those same emotions that willed them to overcome adversity all season long to earn the #1 seed. They put their hearts and bodies on the line with every snap and they did it because they believed there was an end to the means.
The previous game against the Panthers many pundits predicted the red hot Panthers would come into our house and beat us. The first series of the Game Alexander went out with an injury and the first quarter looked like a battle of wills that towards the end we started to get control and with that control came momentum and following that momentum was an demoralization of the Panthers but it didn't happen in the first 30 seconds. It took time to develop. Time for the Seahawks to see some success and believe they were capable of controlling the game as well as time for doubt and fatigue to creep into the Panthers physique but once that happened the blow out was full go.
Super bowl XL was not about us not being able to get momentum on the field. We did that in every way possible. Shutting down the Steelers offence for zero first downs until mid way through the second quarter, moving the ball at will up and down the field and even scoring TDs and even our ST's was dominating with a huge run back all the way into Steelers territory that was again called back by a mysterious black in the back that was never shown on replay. That game showed a monster we had never seen before (no team had) in that the officials called back every single big play we had and there were many and none were with calls that would normally be called in other games.
Keep in mind we were the least penalized team in the league all year in 2005 yet suddenly we couldn't breath without drawing a flag.
I believe that Pete got our guys to believe in 2013 that we have already been robbed once and the only way to prevent it from happening again is to stomp on their throats from the first snap and never let the officials have a chance to steal it away from us.
The flags in that game pretty much say it all. The Steelers were flagged three times early in the game when it looked competitive and then never again. Not only no flags but ignoring to many things to count including multiple clock violations that were never called. From the point it was obvious we were able to move the ball on them and they weren't the officiating became grossly one sided.
To me 49 is pretty much chump change compared to 40. We already just won one and this game was decided by the teams on the field.
If your over super bowl 40, good for you but to me 40 will always be the worst case scenario because since 1976 as a Seahawks fan finally getting to the pinnacle of what you have worked for your entire history only to have the officials give your trophy to a less deserving team because they were more popular? No, just no. They may as well have given the damn trophy to the officials.