Nearly 20 years later, the officiating in Super Bowl XL remains under scrutiny. Joining Julian Edelman’s Games with Names podcast that aired Tuesday, Fox Sports 1 analyst Colin Cowherd took a quick jab at the refs for giving the Pittsburgh Steelers favorable calls in their 2005 win over the Seattle Seahawks.
The conversation began around Cowherd praising then-Seahawks head coach Mike Holmgren.
“It’s the only Super Bowl where I thought officiating was really poor,” Cowherd told Edelman. “I thought Pittsburgh got a lot of really fortunate calls. Pittsburgh was good though.”
From the moment the game ended, the refs have been called into question.