More columnists are weighing in on the poor officiating in Super Bowl XL. And we actually found someone who defends the crew from Sunday.
[Star-Telegram]: Randy Galloway “The Seahawks got jacked. Many a Super Bowl has had a bad call here and there. But this was by far the worst start-to-finish performance by an officiating crew in 40 years.”
[NY Daily News]: Gary Myers “it wasn’t a fine night for the zebras, either. They made four questionable calls – all against Seattle.”
[Seattle PI]: Ted Miller “Here’s the rub: No intelligent person, and that includes Pittsburgh fans, watched the Steelers 21-10 “victory” and believed it was well-officiated. Period.”
[NY Daily News]: Mike Lupica “It doesn’t change the fact that after a year of blown calls by Paul Tagliabue’s finest – even though finest has become a rather relative notion with even Tagliabue’s top officiating crews – there were more blown calls in the Super Bowl.”
[Boston Globe]: Dan Shaughnessy “No league is better run than the NFL, but its part-time officials had an abysmal postseason and took the Seahawks right out of their first Super Bowl.”
