Well, that Super Bowl pretty much went exactly how I thought it would -- at least, the way it started out.

See I had Seattle winning (sure, I’ll admit it). I just felt that their offence was too good and Hasselbeck would be able to move the ball and score early. I just didn’t account for the seemingly pro-Steeler officiating and the complete ineptitude of the Seahawks coaching staff at managing the clock. I’ll deal with the first part first so it I can quickly assure you that this is not sour grapes (hey, as you know I’m not a Seattle fan, but an Eagles fan -- the similarities in name, logo, colours and uniform notwithstanding.)

Okay, I’m not really saying that I think the refs were biased. But if the Steelers players/fans thought the refs were pro-Colts in the Indy game, they certainly couldn’t think similarly about this game.

There’s no way that was offensive pass interference in the end zone. At first I thought, the ref was convinced by the Pittsburgh player to throw the flag, because he didn’t throw it right away. But on the replay it just looked like he had trouble getting the flag out initially. But also on the replay, it was clear there was no real contact, just incidental while he changed direction. I’m not saying it would have changed the outcome. But I expected the Seahawks to come out and Hasselbeck get an early TD pass, and he did.

And of course there was the Roethlisberger touchdown. That’s not a really big deal, even though I don’t think the ball got in, because I don’t think the refs could have – or should have – overturned the call. But the Steelers can’t say they didn’t get the benefit of the doubt on that one.

It also seemed the Seahawks got a lot of holding calls against them in crucial spots (when they would have had first-and-goal from the 1 trailing 14-10 for example), while the Steelers got away with some (when they made their last first down to essentially ice the game).

And finally, that was a bad call on the Hasselbeck block on the interception. That gave the Steelers even extra field position to go on to score.

Now onto clock management. Clearly the blew the final seconds of the first half. They should have been able to come away with at least three points.

And they probably should not have punted on fourth-and-13 with less than five minutes left.

But the final 2 minutes was the worst display of clock management I’ve ever seen. With 40 seconds left they had no business trying for more yards. They needed to kick the 41-yard field goal right away.

When there were 27 seconds left and the clock stopped, it was ill-advised to try and run a play. They would not have time even if they went for and got a touchdown, to then kick and recover an on-side kick, then throw into field goal range, then kick the field goal.

There was only enough time to kick a field goal, then kick and recover an on-side kick, then throw into the end zone for the tying touchdown. (That’s one less play.)

So the only logic I could fathom for them to run a play in that position was if they were planning on not going for a field goal at all – and go for the win with touchdown passes either time.

But no, they did the only thing that made absolutely no sense whatsoever, which was to try to gain a little bit of yardage for a shorter field goal!!! Even if the player had gotten out of bounds, it still would have basically guaranteed no chance at tying up the game (apart from a Hail Mary).

Brutal.

But congratulations to the Steelers. I’m happy for Bill Cowher, Jerome Bettis. And I suppose if Philadelphia couldn’t win, at least it went to a Pennsylvania team.

There’s no doubt Pittsburgh played well and deserved to win. But they did have a lot of big plays. While the Seahawks had a lot of drops, in addition to the bad breaks.