That was a poorly officiated game to say the least. How do you miss that interception call when you have that long to look at it? Plus, there was an absolutely abysmal non call early in the game when a Steeler receiver was interfered with blatantly on an underthrown deep ball. There was another obvious interference call that was missed when Pitt was going for a third down in the second quarter.
Can someone tell me how there wasn't a penalty on the 4th and inch play by the Steelers? The Steeler lineman flinched ever so slightly and then the entire Indy defensive line came across the line of scrimmage with many making contact. Then, all of the Pittsburgh lineman come out of their stances and make contact. How is there no penalty on either side? It should have been a false start on Pittsburgh, but if not that, then it had to be against Indy.
Plus, on second and long on Indy's first scoring drive of the second half, a Pittsburgh DL broke free and had a free shot at Manning for the sack but was dragged down from behind by an Indy lineman. This was right up the middle and extremely apparent. They weren't in alot of traffic at all. It was obvious.
The officiating was horrendous...absolutely horrendous. To make it worse, they were easy calls that they missed. It wasn't that they were missing things that you'd expect to be missed from time to time. These were all easy calls to say the least.
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