Super-Frustration
A dropped pass. A phantom pass interference call. More dropped passes. TD Roethlisberger? Pathetic clock management. Another drop. A bogus holding call. And to top it all off, an illegal block call on a guy making a tackle...
It's one thing when you go into a game, get your teeth kicked in by a better opponent, and lose. It's another thing entirely when you shoot yourself in the foot with mental mistakes, only to be shot in the other foot by an officiating crew who called phantom penalties against 300-pound men in dark blue uniforms. (Were those flags or Terrible Towels the refs were throwing around?) It's one thing to lose when the other guys' quarterback outplays you and shreds your defense. It's another thing entirely when their guy winds up with a QB rating of 22.6 and still walks home with the hardware, all because your guys struggle to haul in key passes in the biggest game of their careers.
There's no other way to slice it. Superbowl XL was downright painful for Hawks fans from Missoula to Fairbanks, Bellevue to Bend.
Give the Steelers some credit. They made just enough big plays to win and earn the Bus a well-deserved NFL championship. And Cowher, as I predicted 3 weeks ago, called a brilliant trick-play that sealed the deal for the yellow and black.
Other than that, Seattle outplayed Pittsburgh in a game you wish came with a do-over clause, a rewind button you could push to go back to 6:15 pm eastern time. But you can't. And the best you can do is hope for another shot at the big game, which might not happen for another 30 years.
It's one thing when you go into a game, get your teeth kicked in by a better opponent, and lose. It's another thing entirely when you shoot yourself in the foot with mental mistakes, only to be shot in the other foot by an officiating crew who called phantom penalties against 300-pound men in dark blue uniforms. (Were those flags or Terrible Towels the refs were throwing around?) It's one thing to lose when the other guys' quarterback outplays you and shreds your defense. It's another thing entirely when their guy winds up with a QB rating of 22.6 and still walks home with the hardware, all because your guys struggle to haul in key passes in the biggest game of their careers.
There's no other way to slice it. Superbowl XL was downright painful for Hawks fans from Missoula to Fairbanks, Bellevue to Bend.
Give the Steelers some credit. They made just enough big plays to win and earn the Bus a well-deserved NFL championship. And Cowher, as I predicted 3 weeks ago, called a brilliant trick-play that sealed the deal for the yellow and black.
Other than that, Seattle outplayed Pittsburgh in a game you wish came with a do-over clause, a rewind button you could push to go back to 6:15 pm eastern time. But you can't. And the best you can do is hope for another shot at the big game, which might not happen for another 30 years.
posted by Small Fish at 7:30 PM
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