[Lefty Noob]

What does everyone think about the officiating at this year's Super Bowl?

Personally, I think there were some calls, and some that people are complaining about that the refs got right. Big Ben's touchdown looked like a touchdown to me -- I think the ball crossed the line while he was in the air. But the interference call on Jackson and the penalty on Hassleback after the pick were both terrible.

[rmjvol]

I thought the pass interference in the endzone should not have been called. Let 'em play! BUT, once it was called, you can't exactly overturn it because he did push off a little.

My whole gripe was that those nit picky calls should even out for both teams. I don't think they did.

Props to the Steelers, they took the hard way to the Super Bowl & brought it home.

Zero props for the super bowl refs. Their job is to make the fans feel like the calls didn't impact the outcome of the game. They failed there.

[EmpireWF]

The refs did a poor job to say the least. The pass interference in the endzone, the holding call on Locklear and the illegal block on Hasselbeck were all awful. Had the holding call (which it wasn't a hold) not been called, the Seahawks can go down the field and score. No chance in hell Big Ben can lead the Steelers back down the field in that situation.

Nevertheless, the Steelers won the game and congrats to them for it.

[ken77]

The referees were bad all season long and you think in the biggest game of the year the NFL could have got it straighten out. I guess that was to much to ask. Congratulations to the Steelers though they got to the game the hard way and are now World Champions

[wvuauthor]

I definitely agree that the Super Bowl refs missed a few calls, and it seemed that most of the bad ones went against Seattle.

I am a life long Steelers fan and have lived in Pittsburgh my entire life, but I must admit that it would have been a different game if the refs would have not missed a couple of calls. That is not to say that the Steelers did not play tough, because they did.

There was an article in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette about the refs today. Seems to be a big issue right now. Even with instant replay there are many flaws that still need worked out.

[ThePundit]

So let me get this straight. We have a 65 year old man, who from 20 yards away comes dashing in from the far side of the field and he's goanna tell us whether the ball crossed the goal line?

Having been in the employment industry, I'm pretty sensitive to age discrimination, but it seems to me that the older we get, the worse our vision gets. Having said that I have to pose this question: Why are 90 per cent of NFL game officials 1000 years old?

Memo to the NFL: Once an NFL official has received his AARP card, or he has just attended his grandchild's Bar Mitzvah, that person autmotically gets a desk job in the NFL office.

[Lefty Noob]

The big problem isn't age, although that may be a factor. The issue is -- why do we have part timers deciding the outcome of football games?

With TV contracts and marketing, the NFL is a billion-dollar product. I think they should be afford full-time officials now. Who knows if a guy's blowing a call because he too busy thinking about his company's report or his the briefs at his legal firm?