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James Harrison is my hero

awesome ending to the game

overall a good game

that was actually a pretty exciting game!! and i really don't like NFL football.

i wasn't sure who i was rooting for but when homeboy got that 100-yard interception, i picked the steelers because that's pretty awesome. :D

yeah, but that same guy did some rather ridiculous bullshit later on, looked like 'roid rage to me

also, cardinals got dicked, that last play should have been ruled incomplete instead of a fumble. i'm not saying they would've won with one more play, but everyone in the room thought it was total bullshit to not even review it (even the die hard steelers fans)

It was obviously a fumble. I was rooting for the Cards, but reviewing it would have just wasted America 2 more minutes.

I can't remember the last time that the Steelers lost a game when trailing by less than a TD when Ben got the ball back with over 2 minutes to go. He's the modern day Elway/Montana.

Go Chiefs in 2009 =P

Was a fun game to watch.

ya, there were some pretty egregious personal fouls.

I thought the fix was in on that "hold" in the endzone that resulted in a safety

i only made it home for the last 20 minutes of the game, pretty entertaining, felt awful fot he cards, bummer

Reynaldo wrote:It was obviously a fumble. I was rooting for the Cards, but reviewing it would have just wasted America 2 more minutes.

a. i don't think it was obvious at all, and
b. you can't NOT review things like that in a game as big as the superbowl

The officiating was totally skewed towards the steelers, but it was still a good game. Some of those personal fouls that resulted in that field goal were total BS. Not to mention the earlier call of running into the kicker when clearly the guys momentum carried him, that resulted in a score as well. I wasn't impressed with Pitt, considering they were supposed to be so much better, Arizona really handed the game to them on a platter.

Haylo wrote: Not to mention the earlier call of running into the kicker when clearly the guys momentum carried him,

that one was pretty clear cut tho

you just simply can't run over the holder, no matter what

I was actually impressed that the official threw the flag on that holding in the endzone. Usually they don't have the balls to call stuff like that, especially that late in the game.

Rogers-Cromartie for AZ really could have been a hero a few times with some INTs that he dropped.

The 2 plays I think that if either had gone better would have saved Arizona's ass were:

1) That INT at the end of the half. They could have gone into halftime up 14-10, or at the very least tied 10-10. Hell, if they could have tackled the guy even on the 1 foot line, they'd have gone in still 10-7. Given that Pitt won by 4, without those 7 points, it would have been a completely different 2nd half.

2) That play near the end of the game where the Arizona defender fell down, and Pitt got down to the 5. If that defender doesn't slip, and tackles the receiver within a couple yards of making that catch, that leaves the clock running, Pitt with no timeouts, and at best a very very long field goal attempt which still would have given us overtime at worst for Arizona.


That was a serious gut punch game for the Cardinals, no doubt. They came SO close. Probably about as big a gut punch as was the SF/Cincy super bowl was to Cincy, when Montana pulled it out for the 9ers with that late late TD pass to John Taylor.

-Arlos

The last second fumble was reviewed:

According to NFL VP of Officiating Mike Pereira, the replay official upstairs did see the play clearly.

“We confirmed it was a fumble,” said Pereira. “The replay assistant in the replay booth saw it was clearly a fumble. The ball got knocked loose and was rolling in his hand before it started forward. He has to have total control.”

The Steelers' defense played well in the first three quarters, then in the fourth quarter they went into the prevent with 2 safeties deep and left the middle wide open. Warner took advantage of that and went 14/19 for 224 yards. Teams should never go into prevent defense mode.

I've never understood that either

on the flip side, adrian wilson was invisible

that DT tho, Dockett? he had a whale of a game