Unless you grab or pushoff that is just incidental contact IMO... He was running his route back and forth and they tangle up, that is fine.. But when the ball is thrown he pushes off to get seperation.. It is a iffy call but it is the correct one.. It is not called enough unfortuneatly, and that is why we get all the complaining..

I did not see the ball cross the white line on the replays... HIs head did, but the ball did not cross that line from the sideline camera..

Yeah I won't argue that some calls could've changed the game but honestly pittsburgh would've won regardless. Seattle didn't play like the number one offense AT ALL they weren't even playing the same game as pittsburgh. True calls were blown and miscalled but Seattle didn't deserve the win and now everyone is gonna go off about the officiating like it can be changed now.... so starts a three month hiatus up until draft about refereeing :banghead:

Well come on now, this is the crew that penalized Hasselbeck for making a tackle.........

I just don't believe that. I was sitting there with a Seahawks buddy, and I was telling him, "Aw, come on man... Your guys have to bounce back from that stuff... And they kept bouncing back... And every time they did, they would get penalized on something stupid. And then the Steelers would do something that got totally overlooked, like call a timeout AFTER the clock had ticked zero, or horse collar tackle a rusher for no penalty.

I honestly believe in a fairly called game, Seattle would have won this game.

When I think of the letter that Joe Seahawk posted about how much a lucky ticket lottery winning Seahawk fan would pay to go and see the game, you have to say that the one thing every team and fan "deserve" is a fairly officated game.

There is no way to say that one team "deserved" to win when there were so many momentum changing bad calls in the game.

As much money as fans shell out to root their team on, that was horrible officiating.

It would have been interesting to see if any Steeler would have recovered the ball before it went out of bounds if the official was not blowing the whistle.

Seahawks could have challenged that play, and if the play was overturned they would have benefitted from the bad call on that play because they would have credit for the catch and the Steelers would have been denied their opportunity to recover the fumble.

That was another bad call, but unlike all of the other crap calls, that was reviewable and the Seahawks failed to challenge it.

This non-call did not hurt the Steelers though. They got the ball on the 20 right after the punt on the following play. They actually gained field position.

That INT happened AFTER Seattle had a completed pass (to the 1 yard line) called back for a BS holding call.

Yeah - that's one I never saw as questionable. If you draw an imaginary line at the plane of the goal line upwards, the nose of the ball would cross it. The ball doesn't have to cross the entire line - the nose of the ball just has to touch that imaginary barrier.

I was rooting for the steelers. However there were 3 obviously bad calls favoring the steelers that greatly helped their win. That is my humble unbiased opinion. This is bad for the NFL.

Imagine that. A donkey fan complaing about officiating...

I don't know?

Read the name

I don't need to. Thanx anyway.