This garbage about officials being bought off or incompetent is sour grapes.
I think a lot of people look at the Steelers past two Super Bowl wins and find quite a few questionable calls and its possible their team never seems to get these calls.
The Seahawks Superbowl was the worst officiated game I have ever seen and I dont know one Steelers fan that admits that it was. So right there you have a lot of fans hating the Steelers fans. All of that being said, what won the game for the Steelers this year was not the refs. It was the 14 pt swing at the end of the 1st half plan and simple.Congrats to the Burgh!!
It's the worst Super Bowl officiating I've ever seen, that's for sure. But those things happen. The Seahawks didn't impress me that game with their play, and that game has nothing to do with this one as you said.
Plus, I don't think the first half play ended up swinging the game at all. The Cardinals had the lead with less than two minutes left-- period. Hold the Steelers and you win. That's it. You can't just take away those first half points and have any ide ahow the game would have played out. Each move is related to the move before it. I hate spiorts comparisons to chess, but this time it applies. There's no way to tell how it would have turned out if that play hadn't happened. Since the cards had the lead, it doesn't matter.