Seahawk fans prepare to get screwed again

[SonnyCID]

I did happen to notice that bookmakers have really high exposure on Seattle's side. They don't want the Hawks to win. If there's ever going to be a fix put in on the game it will be in favor of the Broncs. Not because there is a conspiracy against Seattle but because the public all bet on them & Vegas hates to lose.

Ummm, the line moved 3-4 points towards Denver. High exposure for Seattle? Wtf are you talking about?

 

[MISKO]

the excuses for the loss are already coming out ... lol

 

[SFNL]

Ummm, the line moved 3-4 points towards Denver. High exposure for Seattle? Wtf are you talking about?

If the line moves towards Denver, that means that the bookmakers are trying to encourage people to bet on them to even out the money. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.

 

[Midnightangel]

well, no doubt the seahawks got screwed by the refs in their last SB. i'm not sure if I would say it was 'fixed' though. most likely just bad officiating. hopefully officiating doesn't determine the outcome in this one.

The zebras called it tightly. Pittsburgh got their penalties as well, that's how we ended up with 3rd and 25 on the Seattle 40 near the end of the second half. A false start and holding call. We completed a 37 yard pass to Hines Ward to get down to the 3 to set up our first TD.

All teams get bad calls that go against them. In the Indy playoff game that year we got screwed on Troy Polamalu's INT of Peyton Manning. The league would later say they screwed up on that. He went down and got a TD after that and cut it to 21-18. We made sure he didn't get any more points.

In the Pats - Bronco's playoff game of 2 weeks ago the Bronco WR was flat out HELD in the endzone. The defender used both arms to keep the WR from raising his AND had his back to the play. Text book definition of pass interference. No call. The Broncos had to settle for 3.

D Jax pushed off - ironically, he didn't have to. Had he just turned and reached he would have caught the ball.

Holmgren would later say that he wasn't upset that the refs called Big Ben's play a TD on the dive so much as he minded that the ref raised one arm to signal 4th down, then raised the other to signal TD. He felt the ref changed his mind on it. Well, so what? Refs do that.

Locklear held. He used an arm bar on Haggins and grabbed his jersey.

The blocking below the waist on Hasselbeck I'll give you. That was horrible.

Part of the game is adjusting to how the refs are calling it. Are they being tight or loose? Are they focusing more on one type of penalty than another?

In his comments prior to SB XLIII, Mike Holmgren echoed that first above statement word for word. "Both teams have to adjust to how the game is being called". In SB XL, the Seahawks never did. In the playoff run that year they had home games against the Panthers and Redskins and they got the benefit of the calls a home teams do. I even recall a flag in the Washington game where the Redskin was called for 'holding' and he was on the bench on the play. Mike didn't seem to upset about that one. Seattle came in thinking it would be the same and it wasn't.

They mismanaged the clock and their timeouts at the end of the 2nd half and 4th quarters when they were trying to come from behind. They allowed Pittsburgh to make big play after big play. The 37 yards on 3rd and 25 to set up the first TD. Willie Parkers SB record setting TD of 75 yards on the 2nd play of the second half. The gadget play TD from ARE to Hines Ward.

So why do so many people believe Seattle got screwed? Most people didn't have enough football knowledge to recognize holding when they saw it - and that's what the commentators are for.

Who was calling that game?

John Madden.

He was the Raiders coach in 1972 during the "Immaculate Reception" and he's admitted that he's never gotten over it.

There's a reason that, though Seattle fans complain about that holding call, they never give you a video of it or show you a picture.

Seattle didn't get screwed. They weren't allowed to break the rules - and neither was Pittsburgh. Seattle played sloppy, as did Pittsburgh. The difference was that instead of letting the penalties get them down or develop a defeatist attitude about it, the Steelers responded by making big plays and Seattle didn't.

 

[SonnyCID]

If the line moves towards Denver, that means that the bookmakers are trying to encourage people to bet on them to even out the money. Trust me, I know what I'm talking about.

No you don't bro. Moving the line towards Denver to get more Denver bets? Youre very mistaken my friend. If they wanted them to bet on Denver, why would they give them à less favorable line?

 

[SFNL]

i was wrong

 

[Doublejive]

Midnightangel i am not going to get into that today but even the ref admitted he "blew it" and lives with it everyday.

 

[Wedgie]

Wow, did I step into a time machine???


Is it January 2007 again?


Let it go Seahawks fans. You lost the game.


Maybe there was some bad officiating....so be it..... make the plays to overcome it.


This is ridiculous.

Excuse me? Did a Seahawk fan post this thread?

No?

 

[STBR 27]

Wow, did I step into a time machine???


Is it January 2007 again?


Let it go Seahawks fans. You lost the game.


Maybe there was some bad officiating....so be it..... make the plays to overcome it.


This is ridiculous.

Not one Seahawk fan has complained about how SB XL went in this thread, so get over yourself.

And by the way, it would have been 2006, not 2007*

 

[ida one]

the excuses for the loss are already coming out ... lol

Going to make a losers exscuse thread early today so we can get it started before the first play of the game.

 

[Doublejive]

i was wrong

YESSS the House always Wins.

 

[STBR 27]

Blah, blah, blah.

If you have to constantly "justify" the victory, that should tell you something. Please move on with your life, Seattle fans have. This game was 8 years ago and your team won, congratulations.

 

[Doublejive]

If you have to constantly "justify" the victory, that should tell you something. Please move on with your life, Seattle fans have. This game was 8 years ago and your team won, congratulations.

They won with an asterisk.

 

[ChicagoIrish]

Seattle fans have been making excuses for a week now.

And the game hasn't even started, lol

 

[Midnightangel]

Midnightangel i am not going to get into that today but even the ref admitted he "blew it" and lives with it everyday.

He also admitted that he wasn't looking at the play. He said he looked away for a second, looked back and Haggins was on the ground, assumed it was because of Locklear, and threw the flag.

As it turns out, he was right.

Have you ever actually gone back and looked at that play? I posted a couple pics of it a couple days ago. Seattle fans were eerily silent on it.

Its' the same reason that none other than Mike Peierra (sp?) said Leavy was wrong about kicking that call.

Super Bowl XL: Mike Pereira Says Leavy Didn't Err | Bleacher Report

"Leavy piled on himself by saying that his holding call on Sean Locklear was incorrect. That is not true. It was a hold and should have been called. If anything, you could have made a case that the Steelers were offside and, if the play had been officiated correctly, the penalties would have offset and the down replayed. In any case, the reception would not have been allowed to stand."

Most Seattle fans haven't gone back and looked at it. I have.

 

[Midnightangel]

If you have to constantly "justify" the victory, that should tell you something. Please move on with your life, Seattle fans have. This game was 8 years ago and your team won, congratulations.

No need for quotes honey....we won. It's that simple. But hey, keep thinking that you played one of the best games you had all year and it was rigged if it makes you feel better about playing sloppy and squandering your chances.

 

[Banned 10x]

The zebras called it tightly. Pittsburgh got their penalties as well, that's how we ended up with 3rd and 25 on the Seattle 40 near the end of the second half. A false start and holding call. We completed a 37 yard pass to Hines Ward to get down to the 3 to set up our first TD.

All teams get bad calls that go against them. In the Indy playoff game that year we got screwed on Troy Polamalu's INT of Peyton Manning. The league would later say they screwed up on that. He went down and got a TD after that and cut it to 21-18. We made sure he didn't get any more points.

In the Pats - Bronco's playoff game of 2 weeks ago the Bronco WR was flat out HELD in the endzone. The defender used both arms to keep the WR from raising his AND had his back to the play. Text book definition of pass interference. No call. The Broncos had to settle for 3.

D Jax pushed off - ironically, he didn't have to. Had he just turned and reached he would have caught the ball.

Holmgren would later say that he wasn't upset that the refs called Big Ben's play a TD on the dive so much as he minded that the ref raised one arm to signal 4th down, then raised the other to signal TD. He felt the ref changed his mind on it. Well, so what? Refs do that.

Locklear held. He used an arm bar on Haggins and grabbed his jersey.

The blocking below the waist on Hasselbeck I'll give you. That was horrible.

Part of the game is adjusting to how the refs are calling it. Are they being tight or loose? Are they focusing more on one type of penalty than another?

In his comments prior to SB XLIII, Mike Holmgren echoed that first above statement word for word. "Both teams have to adjust to how the game is being called". In SB XL, the Seahawks never did. In the playoff run that year they had home games against the Panthers and Redskins and they got the benefit of the calls a home teams do. I even recall a flag in the Washington game where the Redskin was called for 'holding' and he was on the bench on the play. Mike didn't seem to upset about that one. Seattle came in thinking it would be the same and it wasn't.

They mismanaged the clock and their timeouts at the end of the 2nd half and 4th quarters when they were trying to come from behind. They allowed Pittsburgh to make big play after big play. The 37 yards on 3rd and 25 to set up the first TD. Willie Parkers SB record setting TD of 75 yards on the 2nd play of the second half. The gadget play TD from ARE to Hines Ward.

So why do so many people believe Seattle got screwed? Most people didn't have enough football knowledge to recognize holding when they saw it - and that's what the commentators are for.

Who was calling that game?

John Madden.

He was the Raiders coach in 1972 during the "Immaculate Reception" and he's admitted that he's never gotten over it.

There's a reason that, though Seattle fans complain about that holding call, they never give you a video of it or show you a picture.

Seattle didn't get screwed. They weren't allowed to break the rules - and neither was Pittsburgh. Seattle played sloppy, as did Pittsburgh. The difference was that instead of letting the penalties get them down or develop a defeatist attitude about it, the Steelers responded by making big plays and Seattle didn't.

Holy shit Angel, it's obvious that win still bothers you.

 

[STBR 27]

No need for quotes honey....we won. It's that simple. But hey, keep thinking that you played one of the best games you had all year and it was rigged if it makes you feel better about playing sloppy and squandering your chances.

And who here is questioning that the Steelers won? Sounds like you, since you keep posting articles to support a win that Seattle fans are not arguing? Move on with your life, you just make yourself look pathetic and desperate for attention.

 

[Doublejive]

Seattle fans have been making excuses for a week now.

And the game hasn't even started, lol

Nope,this game can't get started soon enough.

 

[Midnightangel]

Holy shit Angel, it's obvious that win still bothers you.

No. It bothers me that Seattle fans are still making excuses.

On the one hand I hear them saying that, 'we're over it' and on the other they say, 'they won with an asterik'.

Those two statements contradict each other.

If you're over it then you wouldn't be complaining about it.