LETTER Officials made the wrong call
I am ready to do battle with anyone in the NFL regarding our Pittsburgh Steelers. A win was stolen from the team Sunday by the officials. The New England Patriots were picked to win by three points, and that was the final result. The Patriots have cheated many times in the past, they have been caught and fined, and they still are treated like they can’t do anything wrong.
The Steelers are not a perfect team, and we all know that when you play any sport someone wins and someone takes the loss. However, it really seems so grossly unfair that a small group of part-time workers can make a call that changes the outcome of a game for players who devote their lives to a sport.
It’s a sport that could, unfortunately, cause them great physical damage.
On the KDKA-TV news on Monday evening, there was a clip from a previous Patriots game where a similar event occurred and, guess what, that call went in favor of the Patriots. It was the same type of call that went against the Steelers. Where is fairness in this league? I have watched many games this season, and the number of bad calls, non-calls on blatant infractions and questionable calls have made me very skeptical about the abilities of some of these officials. They are not all bad, but some of them couldn’t officiate a flag football game in a local park.
Every sportscaster I watched Monday seemed to feel the same way. On one channel, the headline was, “Patriots steal the game.” How true.
Because the Steelers are the only team with six Super Bowl wins, the officials don’t want us to win any more. I could be wrong, but I really think that they want the Patriots to win another Super Bowl so they will have six, and then next year it will be an all-out battle between the two, six-time winners.
Is it all hype for next year, or is it just a really bad series of events calculated to make the Steelers walk away with a loss?
Virginia A. Trois
Washington