Have the Steelers had a big call go against them in the past several years?

C-Gold · 10-25-10, 05:59 PM

I thought about this same thing. The Steelers alllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll lllllllllllllllllways get the calls. Always. I've never seen another team in any sport get so many gift calls.

That was the dumbest call I've ever seen yesterday. Big Ben Fumbles it... obviously... the refs have to overturn the call when it clearly looked like a fumble... if it was a TD then why did the line judge wait 2 seconds after the ball was fumbled to call it a TD???

2 Dolphins jumped on the ball, 1 Steeler jumped on the pile, the Miami guys gets up with the ball and Gene Skerator says he doesn't know who recovered the ball?

Steelers ALWAYS get the calls.

hitman2010 · 10-25-10, 06:05 PM

I am not sure guys, but I always seem this Pits team very lucky.

jjgold · 10-25-10, 06:27 PM

Pitt is charmed
Big Ben is charmed

Full Time Hobo · 10-25-10, 07:29 PM

Pats and Colts always get the calls.

Pitt always gets lucky breaks too but not as often.

Mr. Jones · 10-25-10, 08:56 PM

The Rooney family has owned the Steelers since 1933. Since the inception of the franchise.

frizzelli · 10-25-10, 09:03 PM

enough said

Nov. 26, 1998 — Thanksgiving Day.
Phil Luckett, in his eighth year as an NFL official and second year in the referee position, was the referee on the nationally televised Detroit Lions victory over the Pittsburgh Steelers, a game fraught with strange plays, controversial rulings and typically jaded TV commentary. It was a tough day at the office for the officials and they were to put in some overtime as well.
___Pittsburgh captain Jerome Bettis was the player charged with the responsibility of calling the overtime coin toss in the air. With TV cameras and sound equipment broadcasting the event, Luckett, with his microphone turned on beaming the voices to the stadium crowd, gave the typical instructions to the captains, looked directly at Bettis and said, “Call it, please, in the air.”

“Tails” was the word TV viewers across the nation heard. But incredibly, as the coin hit the ground Luckett said, “Heads is the call. He said heads. It is a tails.” Immediately, Bettis, looking incredulous and confused, said,
“I called tails.” Luckett turned toward Bettis and said, “No you didn’t.” He turned his microphone off and immediately went to business getting the captain’s choices while Bettis and teammate Carnell Lake continued to argue the call.
___During that sequence, CBS announcer Greg Gumbel said, “Oh, I believe he said tails” to which tag team partner Phil Simms said, “He did.” Moments later while listening to the exchange, Gumbel laughingly said, “Oh, man. Jerome Bettis said tails … oh, my.” Simms added, “Now we’re going to have to get all of the officials out there for the coin toss to see what’s going on.” As the network broke for a commercial, Gumbel said with a touch of sarcasm, “When we come back, the Lions — we think — have won this coin toss and will receive. Happy Thanksgiving.”
___That was just the beginning of an onslaught. The media experts, stirring the officiating controversy pot week in and week out, finally had something — and someone — they could sink their teeth into. To the media, Luckett was juicy. How could an NFL referee screw up the coin toss? He became the nation’s posterchild of poor NFL officiating. In the weeks that followed, TV analysts covering Luckett’s games repeatedly highlighted and referenced controversial plays involving Luckett’s crew. Luckett was even highlighted prevalently when ESPN’s Espy Awards looked back on the year in sports.
It went so far and Luckett became so frustrated in the months that followed that, in a highly unusual move for an NFL official, Luckett resolved to tell his side of the story.

frizzelli · 10-25-10, 09:04 PM

12 years later and still reaping the rewards.

MarkDee · 10-25-10, 09:58 PM

the refs all too scared big ben and harrison will gang raped the shit out of their daughters or wives