If I were a player, that is 0 consolation. I'd rather not hear they fucked up just fix it. Not to bring up the seahawks v Pitt superbowl repeatedly but we got the same spiel, and then hearing the ref admit he botched the job years later, 0 consolation. Good for Boldin to speak up about it. Few Hawk players did earlier this year as well.
You guys bitching about the call in the Seahawks game act as if SF was ahead or something when that play took place. Seattle was up 10-7 and had the call not been made, would've been up 13-7. Seattle had physically manhandled the 49ers all game long. To think SF would've marched right down and taken the lead isn't realistic.
I'm the biggest Seattle fan here but it was a bad call.
I'm the biggest Seattle fan here but it was a bad call.
Just stop. The media says they have a great defense because they do. As a matter of fact, it's the best in the NFL and was last year as well. You're just a bit butt hurt because they dominated the great Aaron Rodgers and will do it again in the playoffs if they meet again.
And oh by the way, the biggest screw job in Super Bowl history came against Seattle against the Steelers so it's not all one sided.
There's a huge difference between 13-7, which the game MIGHT have been at, and 17-7, which the refs let it be at. You can't just say "if the 49ers did this or that". How many NFL games have been decided by 4-7 points this year? The NFL refs' horrible call turned the game from a 3 or 6-point deficit to a 10-point deficit. The referees' own lack in judgement changed it that much. That matters.
Seattle had a great defense but the refs didn't do their job in that game at all. In fact, the outcry from the lack of calls that were obvious holding penalties by the Seahawks led to a complete overhaul in how the rule is called this season. I'm not really mad since that holding call was rarely enforced against anyone and the Seahawks jobbed the system. Good for them. Ultimately Seattle really skimped by on it last year. They mugged WR's at the line and it was never called even though it was 100% illegal.
Seattle realized the refs were not going to enforce the rules on defensive holding. Props to them. It was still illegal. It led to a league wide rule change since refs weren't calling the game according to the rules of the NFL. Seahawks cheated and were awarded for doing so. Those are facts.
not exactly, arguably better (maybe), but no where near "heads and tails"
and others can make such arguments as well
