First I want to send congratulations to the Pittsburgh Steelers for winning Superbowl XL and Pittsburgh proved they are good enough to be Superbowl Champions.

That being said, I was highly disappointed in this Superbowl. The only thing that lived up to its reputation was the commercials. Man, there was some good ones like the Ameritrade and as usual Budwieser. My favorite one was the Sierra Mist commercial.

But the pre-game show never captured my interest except for when Tom Jackson seemed to lose his cool when Michael Irvin and Steve Young disagreed with him. I expected a better pre-game show from ESPN.

Then came the terrible calls from the refs. First the "offensive pass interference" that cost Seattle a touchdown and forced them to settle on three points. Then there was the call that went for a Pittsburgh touchdown that wasn't. That was on third down, had the refs called that play correctly, the Steelers would have the ball fourth and one at the goal line and probably would have settled on a field goal... that's an eight point swing in Seattle's favor. Thank you NFL refs for screwing up the first half.

The NFL screwed up the halftime show by selecting the Rolling Stones to perform. I was waiting for Mick Jaggers pants to slip off, plus he dances like a chicken. Okay, Mick Jagger was cool once, like twenty or thirty years ago, but I wish the NFL would get a little more contemporary with their music. Not somebody who looks like their drunk on Ensure.

The second half was just as horrible as the first, as far as the refs are concerned. We had a pass completion by Seattle to the one yard line called back for a fictitious holding penalty, and if it was a holding call, then the refs should have called it against Pittsburgh late in the fourth quarter.

Then Seattle's quarterback gets called for an "illegal block" on the guy who intecerpeted him. How do you get called for an "illegal block" while tackling the guy with the ball? It was clearly a legal tackle but no, the refs had to tack on an additional fifteen yards.

If that wasn't enough, Hasselback runs for a first down, gets tackled, hits the ground and the ball comes out after he was down. What do the refs do? Why, that's a fumble of course. Sure it was overturned but it should never had to have gone to review. Just another bad call by the refs that went against Seattle.

Don't get me wrong, I'm happy that Pittsburgh won. It's just a shame that they had so much help from the refs. I feel for Seattle and their fans that the game wasn't decided on the field, but by zebras.