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Steelers had great plays but the simple fact is the Seahawks outgained, outpassed, and allowed fewer yards throughtout the entire game. So statistically they were superior to the Steelers.
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You've chosen to ignore the salient statistical metric. Points scored. In that area of measurement the Steelers clearly were the superior team by 101%. The Seachickens did miss two key field goals (6pts right there) that could have given them a chance for an on-side kick.....etc...
"There are three kinds of lies. Regular lies. Damned lies. And statistics." ~ Samuel Clemens.
You can also look to two abysmal punts on the part of the Seachickens. In both cases a directional punt & coverage was kicked in the opposite direction from the coverage. The Seachickens were lucky to have not had one of those run back on them. Both did allow for rather nice field position for the Steelers.
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In fact, they were the only team in Super Bowl history to outgain, outpass, and dominate a team and lose. Why? Because the refs chose to call chicken s**t penalties through the entire game.
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Wrong. The Ram's out passed and out ran the Pat's in XXXVI and lost, Green Bay out ran and out passed Denver in XXXII and lost, Steelers out passed and outran Dallas in XXX and lost. There are more but searching those box-scores is tedious.
The key thing is that the Steelers outrushed the Seachickens by 50yds and didn't blow it when presented an opportunity to score.
As for the penalties. The only one that was flat out wrong was the Hasselbrokeback "clip" or whatever. Jackson did push off, the other cat was holding. Were they egregious examples of such...probably not, but they were infractions none the less. Bottom line, the Seachickens got caught 7 times for 70yds and the Steelers 3 for 20.
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And as for shooting off Jeremy Stevens' fat mouth, every sports writer in the country said Joey Porter was a non-factor in this game despite talking from his southern output all week. I don't like the pro sports smack talking so i don't stand behing Jeremy Stevens and his mouth but Porter ran his mouth 10 times more and didn't do a thing all day.
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I dunno about that. The Seachickens ran away from Porter and Polomalu (sp?) all day. Every time they ran he drew a double team. I'd say he was doing his job rather well because his presance made the Seachickens alter their play calling.
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If you read or watched any sports news outside of Pittsburgh today, You would already know this stuff......
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Given that I live in San Jose, California I would think it rather difficult to get my sports media from anything but sources outside of Pittsburgh. But since we are on the subject.....It seems at least one of the Seachickens players and their coaching staff see things differently than you do:
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“I mean, if a team just goes out and overpowers you, then you’re like, ’Hey, we got beat.’ But I think we beat ourselves,” Bernard said.
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“I know they’re not OK with it,” the coach said of his players. “I wanted them to keep their heads up. There’s no need to apologize for anything. We lost the football game and we lost it because of the reasons you lose most games ... mistakes.”
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Shall we continue, or have you grown tired of the taste of your sour grapes?