Everyone who saw the interception by Troy Polamalu knew the game was over and that Indy was toast. Well, everyone but Referee Pete Morelli, who stood under the replay hood and somehow declared that it wasn’t an interception. There hasn’t been such a blatant attempt at swinging a game to one team’s favor since Game 6 of the Western Finals between the Lakers and T’Wolves. The bias was so bad that a player from the winning team came out and blasted the officials.
I felt they were cheating us. When the interception happened, everybody in the world knew that was an interception. Don’t cheat us that bad. When they did that, they really want Peyton Manning and these guys to win the Super Bowl. They are just going to straight take it for them. I felt that they were like ‘We don’t even care if you know we’re cheating. We’re cheating for them.’The way the refs were going, I wouldn’t have trusted them in overtime,” Porter told the Pittsburgh Post Gazette. “If we hadn’t won, they would have cheated us in overtime.
[ESPN]: Porter on refs: ‘I felt they were cheating us’
[Sports Matters]: A Reading From The Book Of Crazy
[SI]: NFL: Official made judgment call
[Yahoo/AP]: NFL says ref got Polamalu call wrong; no comment on Porter remark
