Questionable Calls Superbowl 43

[JasonTX]

Originally Posted by fljet

whatever Im not a Cardinals or Steelers fan and I did not enjoy the game tonight as with the other 20 or so folks, due to the lopsided officiating, many were judgement calls but to average fans, and not trained officials the game was poorly officiated. We can argue about it all week but the bottom line is that the Cardinals got robbed.

If you can review the entire game film and still come to the same conclusion then you must be a Pittsburgh bandwagon fan, I guarantee that this crew will receive a less than perfect grade.

Yeah. I thought the officials threw a bad pass in the end zone that was picked off and ran back 100 yards. Surely one those officials could have made the tackle if only they would have tried harder. I also thought Field Judge should have provided better defense on the game winning TD pass. How can the officials let a guy get in that position to make that catch. Clearly the officials handed them that.

[Warrenkicker]

The things I saw.

R should have not had a fumble on Warner in the third quarter I think. I understand letting the play play out but that wasn't a good call. Replay fixed that one but that was about the worst error all night. Arizona should not have had to depend on a replay to fix that one.

The roughing the holder was a great call. That is an odd call because nobody does it.

Perhaps Harrison did deserve to be ejected but not from the replays I saw. But I may not have seen the entire action.

All of the holds called, mostly against Arizona, were there and they were big. The hold in the end zone against Pittsburgh was a great call.

If the NFL wants to call USC for using the ball then it should have been called. I think it took so long for Holmes to do it that the officials may have moved off to get ready for the try and perhaps just didn't see it.

The block at about the 15 at the end of the long return at the end of the first half is never called a block in the back in the NFL. There is a block like that on a lot of long returns in the NFL and even in college and it is never called because it is legal.

So that is about it except for that great tackle the umpire made. He tried to move but didn't get away quickly enough. At least he didn't end up on the bottom.

[Adam]

Originally Posted by JasonTX

Yeah. I thought the officials threw a bad pass in the end zone that was picked off and ran back 100 yards. Surely one those officials could have made the tackle if only they would have tried harder. I also thought Field Judge should have provided better defense on the game winning TD pass. How can the officials let a guy get in that position to make that catch. Clearly the officials handed them that.

I thought they were done after the last play of the first half. They actually defended that final touchdown pretty well, but it was a perfect pass and a perfect catch.

[Trap]

Most of the calls i thought were correct. The one call i didn't get a chance to see, was the roughing the passer call. On the radio, they thought the flag was for intentional grounding and couldn't believe the call. I did not see, so i have no comment.

The one place i was a little dissapointed, and thought the officials ( i consider the replay official a member of the group) was not reviewing the last fumble. Tho i thought the call was probably correct. I can't understand why they didn't take the 5 minutes to review it.

Please don't give me the BS that Pereira said about they checked in the booth, between plays. He is just doing a CYA, so his officials don't look bad. That guy is more about PR, than integrity of the game.

Overall, I thought the game officials did a good job, lots of penalties, but they were consistant.

[Sonofanump]

I only question I had was the roughing the passer call. But, you have to remember the NFL's policy on their million dollar QBs.