This was by no means a ref win. Niners had multitudes of chances and blew it. I just think its funny that the team with by far the most holding penalties had none while Trent fucking Williams had 1. Crazy stuff
It’s funny because a lot of fans I think would take losing in one Super Bowl over never even making it to the Super Bowl in their lifetimes.
But no one wants to make it to four straight and lose, even though that’s a ton of fun playoff wins, and is an objectively much more impressive feat,.
If you’re counting stuff like the Bettis coin toss on Thanksgiving, you can’t have any sort of reasonable confidence that the Lions win if Phil Luckett rules differently.
Obviously teams suffer significant bad officiating luck, but it takes a lot before a loss should actually be blamed primarily on the officials as if the team definitely deserved better.
No. Not close
Might not even be best act on the stage
As a lions fan I can name 10 off the top of my head. Easily.
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No thanks
Not neccesarily. This is the first time this rule has EVER been put into play. Coach should have made them more aware of the rules but not surprised if a good chunk didnt know them
Ugggh, fuck no. Im at 2 in the last 4 years and its brutal.
Granted that my view is a bit skewed because my team only loses SBs in the most brutal manner possible, but at one point the Seahawks were 0-1 in just the one Super Bowl, and it was the Steeler refs Super Bowl, but there’s not a chance in the world that I would have preferred that game existing to that game not existing. Most losses as a sports fan heal to 100%, but some take a chunk of you forever. I would always forgo the existence of those games if I had the power, and that game was certainly one of them.
The Bills thing is brutal. I generally am very strongly against doing this weird “this team historically loses a ton ergo I root for them” thing, but I have a hard time not getting behind the Bills when my own team’s interests aren’t at play, and that 4x SB loss streak does play a part.
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Calvin Johnson
Report Gate
10 second runoff
Aaron Rodgers sells a phantom gas mask to complete 2nd try at Hail Mary
I believe the called and walked off DPI taken back during the commercial break vs Cowboys in playoffs but can’t be certain it cost the game. But likely. This is the one I’ll demote for the next time.
Also, do the right thing and listen to some J Dilla this week.
That was the 1990 season, bro. I obviously remember it well for very different reasons. I trade spots with you in a heartbeat if it meant my boys would ship a few 30+ years later.
I’d also have bet just about anything that one was on your list, and when I skimmed your post I just looked at the years and was wondering how you could have possibly left that one off.
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They got a KC db on a hold on the 9ers last regulation drive, IIRC. Not the same kind of holding, I know.
I was a small child when Scott Norwood missed the winning kick in Super Bowl 25 and I remember locking myself in the bathroom and crying like well, a small child.
Fast forward a few decades and I’m so numb to the pain that you could torture my family in front of me and get no reaction.
I’ll pass on the genie, thanks anyhow. Or maybe drown it in the bathtub.
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Ok that sounds like a definitive answer.
The most nervous I’ve ever been for any sporting event was right before Mahomes’ first Super Bowl. I couldn’t even eat, which in any other context would mean I’m about to die. I guess some part of me knew the potential pain that a close loss could cause (scar tissue from Dave Szott). I remember thinking if we lose please just let it be a blowout.
The nervousness has been 100x less for anything following that first SB.
Rihanna was terrible. She was pregnant so I will give her a pass. Usher performance is top 5. Dudes rolling around on skates at one point.
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I think I just like Rhianna’s songs better.
I always forget if I’m remembering the year it happened or the season, so I usually subtract a year.
That was a magical season, Steve Deberg through 3 INTs all year. Smothering defense, best secondary in football, Derrick Thomas, Dan Saleaumua and Neil Smith going nuts. For the first time in my waking lifetime Chiefs football was fun again. And then it hurt, real bad.
One of my three losses that I blame officials for is a game that nobody cared about, and therefore is the one time that I genuinely suspect riggage. December 2003, Seahawks at Ravens. The referee is this fucking oaf.
The game was in a state where the Seahawks could run the clock down to single-digit seconds. Except…after one of the running plays, good old Tom White just simply forgot to run the clock. That’s right here. as you will note that Baltimore mysteriously did not have to call a timeout, yet only five seconds elapsed from one snap to the next:
So the Ravens get the ball back with 39 seconds left instead of potentially never touching it again. And then, once they did get the ball back, this happens:
44-yard pass interference! You’re just going to have to take my word for it that this was an absolutely phantom call without an ounce of merit. I can’t provide evidence because they don’t post phantom DPI calls to YouTube 20 years later over a game that nobody was even paying attention to (thus making it the perfect game to tuck some legitimate foul play into). Suddenly the Ravens are in FG range, we head to OT, and the Ravens ship it.
Good old Tom White, who either might have been just completely senile by this point, or perhaps - just perhaps - may have gone full Don Altobello and simply pretended to be an incompetent boob, was quietly done away with by the NFL after the season ended.
This game cost the Seahawks nothing. They got a wildcard, and if they’d won then it certainly appears that a wildcard was the only realistic result. But it was an outright theft by the officials. This is the sort of game that a person needs to point to when saying that the officials decided an outcome.
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FWIW I thought the Chefs were going to lose to the Bills this year and planned to root really hard for them. Bills vs. Lions in the SB might have imploded the universe.