is there an article that says the steelers cheated in superbowl 40?
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If there is an article like that it probably is in the Seattle Whiner Gazette. I wonder if there is a similar article saying Wayne Gretzky gambles and bet on his team? I just dont see how people thinks Pittsburgh cheated,they dont make the rules or throw the flags. I think they should just get over it!
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When the NFL unveiled its MVPs from the previous 39 Super Bowls, only three living members skipped the ceremony.\n\nFormer 49ers quarterback Joe Montana and former Steelers quarterback Terry Bradshaw decided to stay home, while former Dolphins MVP Jake Scott was traveling in Australia.\n\nMontana, the league's only three-time Super Bowl MVP, and Bradshaw reportedly turned down the invitation over money.\n\nBoth denied the reports.\n\nIn a phone interview with ESPN2's Cold Pizza on Monday night, Montana vehemently denied forgoing the ceremony over money and reiterated that his absence was due to his preference to see his son's basketball game.\n\nHe'd told Cold Pizza last week he wasn't going to be at the game because his son had an important basketball game he wanted to attend. Bradshaw, according to the Chronicle, told league officials he wanted to be with his family.\n\nMontana said money was never an issue and that he would not have attended the Super Bowl ceremony even if the appearance fee had been greater than the $100,000 he was reported to have requested.\n\nFormer MVPs were given $1,000 for incidental expenses while in Detroit, along with other amenities such as plane tickets, car rental and game tickets.\n\nSources told each paper that Montana asked for a guarantee of at least $100,000 in appearance money.\n\nWhen the league balked at Montana's demands, the quarterback declined to be in attendance.
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I really have no rooting interest in the winner of this game (big JET fan), But I have to say that Seatle has completely got ripped off at this superbowl. Start wit hte Bogus holding call that takes away 1st and goal at the 2, when if anything it should have been offsides on the steelers, then add in the blocking below the waist call on Hasselback on the same play. Move to rothleisburger's phantom TD, and throw in for goof measure the extremely questionable Offensive interference call that took away another Seahawk TD. The officating wasn't just bad, it was biased.
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I am!!! GO STEELERS.\nIt wasn't the best game played, by either team, but the best men won!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Steeler is goiing to win!\n\nNo, I didn't mispelled going. I did on purpose.
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Couple of corrections:\n\nSecretariat won Belmont by 31 lenghts, not 27.\n\nIt was Larry Bird who stole the in-bounds pass and fed Dennis Johnson for the game-winning layup against the Pistons in '87.\nThat was in game 5, it gave the Celtics a 3-2 series lead, they ended up winning in 7 games.\n\nJohn Havlicek stole an in bounds pass in game 7 against Philadelphia back in the 1965 Eastern Conference Finals. Boston won that game 110-109. The pass was thrown by Hal Greer and was intended for Chet Walker.\n\nJeter's play was awesome, never have seen one like it before or since, a shortstop covering THAT much ground to back up a play. \n\nLynn Swann's catches in the 1976 Super Bowl against the Cowboys were as good as any football play I've ever seen, particularly the mid-field 53 yard reception, shown sometimes on ESPN's NFL films shows (although ESPN is much more fascinated with Elway's "the Drive", which ended up meaning absolutely nothing, since Elway got shredded in the Super Bowl, as usual).\n\nWhen it comes to single plays, great catches in baseball always come to mind.\n\nTommie Agee made a couple of great catches in the 1969 Series, and Ron Swoboda made a diving, 9th inning, backhanded catch of a Brooks Robinson drive in Game 4 of that series, saving the game which the Mets won in extra innings to take an insurmountable (unless you're the Lakers) 3-1 series lead.  (However, the year before, in 1968, the Tigers came from 3-1 down to beat Bob Gibson and the Cardinals in the series, and that was still fresh in our minds in '69).\n\nWillie Mays' catch in the 54 Series is pretty much considered the greatest ever, and it's tough to argue that one. It's probably the best of the television era at least.\n\nFranco's Immaculate reception was incredible.\n\nI'd say Jordan jumping form behind the foul line to dunk in a slam dunk contest, but 3/4 of his foot was over the line, so that doesn't count...\n\nWhenever Chamberlain/Russell or Chamberlain/Jabbar or Jabbar /Walton dunked over each other, that was always awesome. \n\nDr. J dunking over Jabbar or Walton was an incredible sight as well. Now of course, we see little guys dunking on big guys all the time, but in the 70s it was much rarer, as the big men of that era were vastly superior to the big men today....\n\nMontana to Clark was great.\n\nGame winning field goals, regardless of the situation, aren't as exciting, because the don't display the athletecism of plays like those listed above...\n\nGibson's and Fisk's game winning HR's were OK, but jeez, they've only played them a zillion times, and they expect the viewers to get just as excited the millionth time as when it actually happened... Only Seinfeld can survive THAT many reruns and still be good...
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Take a look at \n\nhttp://football.about.com/od/superbowltrivia/a/superbowltrivia.htm
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For sure bad officiating like Holmgren said,"We knew it was going to be tough going against the Pittsburgh Steelers. I didn't know we were going to have to play the guys in the striped shirts as well."\nbad calls for the refs...
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The Steelers have a great team, and they could be even better next year (they should try to keep Randle El and pick up a tough in-between-the-tackles runner). Unfortunately, the odds are against them. As we know, the Patriots won the Super Bowl after the 2003 and 2004 seasons, and made the playoffs this past year as well. However, the two Super Bowl winners before that failed to make the playoffs the following season, and the past four Super Bowl losers (prior to the Seahawks) have failed to make the playoffs in the following season.
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yes. i also think they cheated at the match against aston villa\n\n(mainly because im a villa fan!)
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Not sure what play it happened on, but it was in the 3rd quarter. The papers here are saying a sprained medial collateral ligament. Cowher said significant, but Troy says he'll be back in two weeks. So far no reports of having to have surgery. Either way the Steelers hope for a repeat are over.
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Nobody Won. The Steelers Cheated. The Seahawks were robbed. The Referees blamed and rightfully so.
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No. I think there were some bad calls, namely: \n\n1. The Seahawks push that was not a push - would have been a touchdown.\n2. The Steelers touchdown that didn't actually pass the line\n\nI was rooting for the Steelers but even I thought this was unfair. Would it have made a difference in the 11-point spread? I don't know. But I can understand if some Seattle fans are really pissed right now.
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I am not sure that the play was a touch down.  It was very hard to see if just his elbow broke the field or if the ball actually went into the goal line field.  But the proof was in the pudding  the Steelers did score again.  So either way the correct team won.\n\nI was rooting for the Steelers because of the Bus.  He has bad knees and so do I.  Everyone deserves to have a dream come true.
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Regardless of the NE-Denver outcome, neither team would have beat Pittsburgh yesterday, consider the way the Steelers are playing right now. Talk about momentum! As for the NFC, the best team won there as well -- Tampa, NY Giants, Washington and Chicago were all pretenders and Carolina could only take injuries at RB for so long. I am excited to see Seattle-Pittsburgh in Superbowl XL, should be good.
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No, It's all about the Pats!\n\nSB XXXVI, XXXVIII, & SB XXXVIIII Ruled with the right outcome!
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That was the worst Superbowl I have seen in years. Bad officiating, and just plain BORING (as I predicted). Yes the refs screwed Seattle (I hate both teams so this is a completely honest assesment), take back two crappy holding calls that were questionable at best, repost the touchdown that was taken away (as it was a touchdown), and remove the fake Rothelisberger touchdown which did not happen and the score is at least 24-10 in Seattles favor. THE REFS BLEW THIS ONE