Where’s Your Messiah Now?
02.01.09
Well, that was… kind of a helluva game, actually. Congrats to the Steelers on their Super Bowl victory, and a special thanks to Kurt Warner for remembering in the 4th quarter that Larry Fitzgerald is a worthwhile target. That 100-yard pick-6 to end the first half will justifiably haunt Arizona fans for all eternity, though.
Stick around for Christmas Ape celebrating the win — he promised us that he’ll be extra insufferable. We discussed locking him out of the blog’s editing software, but you know how it is when his feelings get hurt.
Tomorrow: countdown to the draft begins. Yay.
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“Yeah, wasn’t Harrison amazing on that 88-yard Super Bowl-winning 2 minute drill?”
1 – It was 78 yards. 73 of them to one receiver. So I’d say that Holmes was amazing on that drive… and that’s it.
2 – Without Harrison, that drive is irrelevant. Without Harrison, that’s just another “junk TD”. Without Harrison, in short, the Steelers lose by double-digits.
Instead, Ben is now an icon.
Funny how these things work…
I had no particular rooting interest in this game, but I’m thinking that so many people are bringing up the officiating because the Steelers have a bit of history in that regard, i.e. their last SB appearance. They didn’t play particularly well in either game, and frankly needed to get most of the calls in order to win both.
Again, I don’t really give a shit about either the Cards or the Steelers, but Pittsburgh has to be the least impressive SB winner these last two times that I’ve ever seen. Just an honest assessment.
Also, since when has “Running Over the Holder” been a penalty? When was the last time that ACTUALLY got called?
I love that Harrison just made Roethlisberger the talk of the NFL… continuing the tradition lately of QB’s having praise inappropriately heaped upon them because their defense is comprised of a bunch of bad-asses.
Yeah, wasn’t Harrison amazing on that 88-yard Super Bowl-winning 2 minute drill?
“Now Elisha has to catch up once again to Notorious Big Ben.”
And neither of them is the best QB in their class, much less the NFL…
“Byron Leftwich has a ring. Holy shit.”
Which, of course, makes him the SECOND-BEST quarterback in the NFL.
And clearly the best backup.
At least that’s the typical thinking…
I love that Harrison just made Roethlisberger the talk of the NFL… continuing the tradition lately of QB’s having praise inappropriately heaped upon them because their defense is comprised of a bunch of bad-asses.
No, really… I love it…
This was a great superbowl. And a kick-ass half-time show too. The officials didn’t have an undue influence on the game. The only thing that got screwed was the video camera guy during Bruce’s slide.
Having said that …
They really need to review grounding next year. I finally understand the grounding rule and it’s stupid. What’s so special about being “within the tackles”? How can there be an eligible receiver in Row 5? How can “spiking” the ball be even half-legal??? (Didn’t happen in this game but it’s still a pet peeve of mine.) I’d love to see more penalties and fewer “roughing the passers”.
And what the hell have you got against Mitch Berger?
It was reviewed! They did a booth review but it was blatantly obvious it was a fumble, so they didn’t send the ref to the box.
Does anyone have a good reason why the Warner fumble at the end was not reviewed at all? That made little sense. I felt the officiating was sloppy, inconsistent, and essentially equal in terms of screwjobs. But that last play, with the lack of review…I don’t get that at all.
And agin my grammar is shitty. Too much Maker’s after the game I suppose.
Second PG on that. Welkah ,as Chris Tucker would say, got “Knocked the Fuuuuck Out!” by Ryan Clark in during that beatdown.
Yeah, those intimidating Patriots that they beat 33-10 in November. Those Patriots.
Quick, what’s the bigger asterisk next to this Steelers’ title? The pathetic officiating, or the fact that for the second time this decade they lucked into a Super Bowl without having to face the New England Patriots?
Hey, davesignal, my point was that several major calls went against the Steelers. Including calls that gave the Cardinals EXTRA POINTS AND POSSESSION OF THE BALL. So your cries of conspiracy are unfounded and callow. Now quit pretending to be a Cardinals fan.
I can’t spell worth two shits! I meant to say I can’t talk WITH absolute certainty.
I didn’t see all of the game so I can’t talk absolute certainty about what happened with the officiating in the first half. But holding goes on all the time in the trenches. The refs only call the infractions that they see and not all the one which occur. I think that the calls went both ways at least in the fourth quarter. They did call that holding penalty against the O lineman for Pittsburgh turing into a safety for the Cards and called the personal foul ‘gainst Harrison. I am not a yinzer but a Colts fan. But I think the Steelers earned their sixth Lombardi trophy. Roethlisberger was clutch on that last drive and came out like Joe Cool back in January of 89. Have to give props where they are due.
i think they fairly screwed the pooch on that holding call to be honest – at least calling it on the center. the dude was going over backwards. now madden and michaels said it was because he had a hold of the zona defender, but that just as easily could have him being run over by that player, and then the player falling on top of him. nothing ever definitively looked like holding there, so i’m not sure why you’re certain that was the right call. maybe someone else was holding as well? regardless, considering that the refs called about an 8th of the holding penalties they should have on zona #69, and they actually called three, i think that steelers fans have a bit of a right to complain when suddenly the refs decide to call holding when the steelers are in their own end zone. the ben sneak (which ended up as a field goal, not a punt) was definitely not a touchdown, no question.
@dibbly: Ben’s quarterback draw that got reviewed, and ended up being a punt.
I hate the fucking Steelers and, as a Clevelander, there was no doubt in my mind what was going to happen when that half a fucking retard and his China-man buddy got the ball back with 2 minutes left… The fuckers are consistently good & consistently lucky on the limited occasions when they’re not being good. So why, oh why do the refs always favor them?!? I was rewinding several plays & rewatching them throughout the game, & I swear there must have been AT LEAST 10 times (no exaggeration) when Pitt O-linemen had Zona defenders in headlocks from behind or simply tackled defenders who were about to make sacks… many of them on major plays! To claim that the calls “went both ways” simply because CORRECT calls were made in favor of Zona (the overturned TD, the safety, etc.) is pretty disingenuous. That is not to say that the refs decided the game, but it would be readily apparent to anyone who doesn’t own a terrible towel that they favored the Steelers.
That being said, the douchebag O coordinator for Zona was the main reason for the loss. With enough time before halftime to try 2 or possibly even 3 jump balls to #11 to take the lead- &, at worst go into the half tied- they try a cute little slant play? Not to mention that they never once in the first 3 quarters tried to go downfield to a guy who came into the Super Bowl having ALREADY set the playoff receiving record and who has routinely been jumping over & pissing on double coverage! WTF?! He ended up with 7 catches for 120+… almost all in the 4th quarter!! Imagine if they had remembered sooner that the best WR in the league was on their team!!
The way I saw the game the Steelers earned their victory. Regardless of what happened with Warner’s fumble I believe the Cards lost on the Steelers Last possession. The Card defense couldn’t take Big Ben down and that cost them. So I don’t blame Warner in this instance. I think that the officiating was not all that biased but fairly strict. No “Terrible Towel Bowl”(i.e. SB XL) this time. They were calling penalties for even the slightest of infractions though I must admit that the personal foul called on Harrison during the 4th Qtr was more than obvious. Too much wistrol fore the game I suppose.
what touchdown didn’t the steelers -actually- score?
Woooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
1…2….3….4….5…. wait for it….6
Screw all the haters and especially the Seahawks fans. We fucking rule.
Does this mean I could go out to the celebration and count to six with one hand and my peter in public?
@Perfect_Gentleman: The difference here is the Steelers were -actually- holding in the end zone and didn’t -actually- score the touchdown. If somebody is complaining that multiple penalties went uncalled or were drastically under-penalized, the correct response is not “yeah well, what about the time when they didn’t screw up?”.
Fucking up half of the time is not excused by failing to screw the remaining 50% of the pooch.
@ Perfect_Gentleman
It’s not very hard to call holding in the endzone when half of the O-Line is blatantly holding.
Happy my team won, but congrats to the Cardinals for a hell of a fight. Every person in my house for the party was within about 3 feet of the tv on the decisive drive.
/Seriously though, congrats Cards for a hell of a run.
//Had at least 12 beers, too much adrenaline to feel drunk.
///Sorry for ESPN commenting this one.
Davesignal: WTF? The Steelers were called for holding in the end zone. They had a touchdown reversed on a review. The calls went both ways. Roethlisberger won the game. Santonio is better than you. You lose. The End.
@porky
Liveblog the pro bowl? even I have limits.
It’s interesting to see all these alleged Cardinals “fans” coming out of the closet to complain about the officiating. I think I speak for Ape when I say “Fuck off”
that really hurt when you ran out of challenges… oh wait, you didn’t
and do you mean the one at the end where his hand wasn’t coming forward yet? or the other one that was (rightly) overturned and alllowed arizona to punt?
I can’t wait for Ape, so…congrats drunk fuck. Now lets live blog the Pro Bowl! Anyone? Anyone???
@davesignal – shit happens like that every game on special teams, and dude has pads on, he was fine. “god that so dirty, you punched me right on my shoulder pad”
Similarly, when the referees were blatantly missing offsides, calling forward passes fumbles, and having to be challenged/reviewed on every bone-headed call we could manage to get them to look at, it was all entirely fair and balanced.
@ Ed Hockney’s
Yeah cuz when the refs called holding on the Steelers in the end zone that led to a safety in the fourth quarter they were totally rigging the game for the Steelers…
grow up
Dare I say, he was down there giving him the business?
What’s ironically hilarious about this all is that if Kurty boy could just learn to crumple in a ball and take out Harriosn’s legs, not only would the Cards probably have won, but he would have been MVP
@ pher hobbits
Yeah, he held a guy down. Then we got back up, he pushed him back down. GASP!!
@dibbly/Brian: You’re right, the refs were incredibly unbiased. Also, this is totally not ejection-worthy: http://i40.tinypic.com/whbja8.gif
If the Steelers win, you know people will try to blame the refs . . .
Damn Steelers. If there is one thing I can’t stand, it’s seeing poor people happy.
really that again?
Well. At least it’s better than having the Patriots win. Barely.
Loved that officiating, BTW. Not a single questionable call or sign of bias, nope, not at all.
I’d like to thank God for the Steelers having 6 Super Bowls. If it wasn’t for him, Cowboy fans would still be talking shit about being the winningest franchise in the NFL.
Now Elisha has to catch up once again to Notorious Big Ben.
BTW Monkey Business makes very well thought out and accurate arguments. We are talking Commercial Endorsement Hall of Fame, right?
The NFL does NOT fix games…Phew.
/starts cycle.
/flexs
GIVE EM HELL APE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Congratulations to Christmas Ape and the rest of Steeler Nation.
/sincere
//really
///goes back to sticking pins in Eli voodoo doll
Ben Roethlisberger has two Super Bowl rings. He was drafted in 2004.
Peyton Manning has one Super Bowl ring. He was drafted in 1998.
I don’t think that anyone could make a legitimate case that Ben is a Hall of Fame QB.
I don’t think that anyone could make a legitimate case that Peyton isn’t a Hall of Fame QB.
Now if you’ll excuse me, I’m going to take a couple of bong rips, polish off a fifth of vodka, and go slam my dick in a door for about a half hour or so, and then pretend like Bill Polian might actually draft a defensive tackle in the first round.
Stay classy, Steeler fans…. 11-day old babies at a bar.
Steve and Amber Crichton of New Lebanon are such big fans they brought their 11-day old twins in for the game. “That one’s very excited,” said Amber, 34, holding her son Noah and pointing to his brother Neil. “This one’s not too much.” Both babies were decked out in Steelers garb but appeared equally uninterested in the game.
http://www.daytondailynews.com/s/content/oh/story/news/local/2009/02/02/ddn020209localbowl.html
@Pher Hobbits: Yeah, how dare he finish a block while the play was still going on.
@BaCsonkaDonk: no one denies this
@GoSlash27: Because that worked out so well for the Patriots this year.
Also, Sepulveda is back next year and Mitch Berger’s reign of incompetence is over.
And just think: The Steelers will be intact next season with an easier schedule. Muaaaa-HAHAHA!
/suck it, haters!
BTW Ape or whoever needs to make a chop with the Lombardi Trophy over Santonio’s schweinstucker
David Wallace FTW
Where is Warner’s messiah now? Getting his cock sucked by Mike Tomlin.
this Office is somewhat hilarious.
HARF THE BEN ON ESPN. HOPE BERMAN GIVE ME CHOCO TACO. HARF HARF HARF
Reed sounded drunk in his postgame interview.
@ Slothrop, that’d be good. I’d pick growing my fingernails at an accelerated rate.
/family guy quote
@jamaicanmehazy: Kurt Warner wasn’t wearing a Steeler’s jersey.
I don’t really have a problem with the Steelers. But if they start waving Trophy Towels, people will die. I’m a man of my word.
“I was not being facetious, I actually mean that.”
Likewise, guess it’s hard to make something seem serious on a sarcastic site
@Westbrook: I hope it’s super powers. I pick invisibility. shit yeah, Imma see all them bitches nekkid!
ATTENTION: everybody, go smoke a J before Tunison’s drunk ass gets here and starts talking shit out of every orifice he has. STAT.
/front door flies open.
//lighter clicks.
///see you bitches in 10-15 hits.
James Harrison is the most despicable player in the NFL. Any other circumstance and a player who continues to beat the shit out of a player already on the ground would be kicked out of the game.
Enjoy your purchased Lombardi Trophy, you Steeler hacks.
Does that mean we get commenter mock drafts again starting this Friday?
Last Cards play was incomplete pass, sorry. Steelers won, fine; how do you not turn that fumble call over?
Larry Fitzgerald is exactly what Randy Moss would be if he didn’t love the cock.
@Georger
I was not being facetious, I actually mean that.
What are the chances that two consecutive SB’s are decided on TD passes with 35 seconds left?
In the end it was the Cardinals against the Steelers. Who the hell did we think was going to win the game?
/filling out my NCAA bracket now…
Man, Steelers fans sure do know how to downplay stereotypes.
what happened to the sucking? I wasn’t all the way through it.