Super Bowl XL on NFLN right now

[James in PA]

I remember watching a preseason game between the Hawks and Colts about 6 months after the XL disaster. Al Michaels said something like: "The fact that Mike Holmgren didn't get fined for his critical comments about the officiating while speaking to a crowd in Seattle after the game speaks volumes. The NFL knew it had a big problem on that day."

 

[FargoHawk]

Hasselbeck tweeted "don't know why I thought I could watch this!"

 

[Sports Hernia]

IS it the half hour version where they edited out all of the bad calls????

 

[chris98251]

I would love to play that for our current players, give them the dominate and take their hearts speech because you have adversaries everywhere.

Say the day before the big game.

Many of these kids were in Jr high or high school when we last played there, so may not know about it really.

 

[sc85sis]

I have no desire to re-watch the Hawks' version of USC vs. Texas.

 

[IndyHawk]

That game was such bs,it wasn't because of one player hurt ect ..It was the Rooney loving f zebras and all the "let the Bus ride" theme..Every buddy I have in Indiana who saw the game said we got screwed..I have no interest in watching that garbage ever again..

 

[falcongoggles]

I left the NFL for years after that game. I'm still convinced the league has it out for the hawks. Hell no I'm not watching that!

 

[BobcatHawk]

I'll rewatch XL when I can stomach rewatching the Sonics choke against the Nuggets with Dikembe Mutumbo and his stupid grin on his face at the end of the game. Yuck.

 

[hawksfansinceday1]

I left the NFL for years after that game. I'm still convinced the league has it out for the hawks. Hell no I'm not watching that!

I mentioned on another thread that if we get to XLVIII and get the same treatment we got in XL*, I am done with the NFL....PERMANENTLY. I am truly not kidding. I will never watch another NFL game the rest of my life. And the sad thing is, I can see it happening again if it's our Hawks vs. the Donkeys to make sure Peyton gets another ring to "cement his legacy". Against the Pats I think our team gets a fair shake.

Why did you come back goggles and how long were you gone?

 

[loisea_hawk]

I was at Bettis Bowl and have still never finished watching the recording 2nd half. Hope to cleanse the memory soon !

 

[KK84]

HELL NO. In a hundred years it will still be too soon.

 

[BocciHawk]

I own a copy -- some fan did a really nice set of DVDs that they burned from HD broadcasts, it was super cool actually -- and rewatched every game in the set at least once -- except for XL. Have never watched it again, have never wanted to watch it again, will probably never watch it again. I don't think I can handle it.

 

[RolandDeschain]

I have little interest in watching abortions on television.

 

[253hawk]

Am I mis-remembering or did they air the Steelers commemorative video commercial before the game was even over?

 

[okhawkfan]

I also have the dvd set that some guy on here made for that whole season. I have watched every game many times except for that one. I still can't bring myself to watch that atrocity.

 

[falcongoggles]

I left the NFL for years after that game. I'm still convinced the league has it out for the hawks. Hell no I'm not watching that!

I mentioned on another thread that if we get to XLVIII and get the same treatment we got in XL*, I am done with the NFL....PERMANENTLY. I am truly not kidding. I will never watch another NFL game the rest of my life. And the sad thing is, I can see it happening again if it's our Hawks vs. the Donkeys to make sure Peyton gets another ring to "cement his legacy". Against the Pats I think our team gets a fair shake.

Why did you come back goggles and how long were you gone?

Part of it was ramped up job requirements - I was at the Air Force Academy beforehand and then grad school which allowed me more time to watch the games. When the Seahawks got robbed I was just starting pilot training and what would be the beginning of long work days for years. When the NFL so clearly robs your team and you only have a limited number of hours in the day, it makes your choices easier.

In 2008 I found myself in Phoenix for F-16 training and having the Hawks come into town rewet my appetite to watch. The team was terrible, but being back in the Seahawks orbit rewoke something inside of me.

Like you, if the team gets jobbed again I am done...forever. In fact, I would question the priorities of anyone who would follow the NFL in the wake of a similar scandal aimed at the same team

The fact that the 95+% of the national sports news media just rolled over on that infuriated me.

 

[CaptainSkybeard]

The joys of victory cannot be fully realized without first having felt the agony of defeat.

That being said, you guys are sadists.

 

[falcongoggles]

The joys of victory cannot be fully realized without first having felt the agony of defeat.

That being said, you guys are sadists.

False-there was no defeat...that was a robbery. Let's not mix words up here.

 

[James in PA]

The fact that the 95+% of the national sports news media just rolled over on that infuriated me.

To this day, whenever I hear someone in the national media talking about XL for whatever reason, *if* they do make reference of the officiating, its always just something like, "yeah that's the game where Seattle got jobbed by the refs." It's always very nonchalant and then they'll quickly move on to something else. It was the friggin SUPER BOWL! I guess I just expect them to be more passionate about one of the biggest travesties in the history of professional sports. But they weren't then and they're not now. One can only be left to assume it's because it was the Seattle Seahawks who were on the receiving end of it.

 

[tom sawyer]

I was recording it on dvd while it was on, never finish recording it, pulled the disc out and threw it away.

no turning back