This is the closest the Detroit Lions have been to a Super Bowl.

The blocking on the Willie Parker TD is some of the best blocking in SB history

As a Seahawks fan, automatic anger lol Now to be fair, 49 stings more than 40.

Last NFL game broadcasted by abc

The towels make it look like a Steelers home game jesus

100 more years of the NFL will go by and there will NEVER be an acceptable explanation of why Hasselbeck was called for a personal foul penalty on the Ike Taylor interception.

The sequence of officiating around the 13 minute mark of this game basically cost Seattle any shot of winning. - Highly questionable holding call on a completion that would have put Seattle at Pittsburgh's 2 yard line. Forces them to work from 1st and 20. - A missed horsecollar call on 2nd and 25 that would have given Seattle a first down to extend the drive. - The Matt Hasselbeck unnecessary roughness call on a play where he made the tackle after a pick. This sequence alone was horrible and worthy of ridicule, but then you add in the bogus OPI call that wiped Darrell Jackson's TD off the board in the first quarter and the close TD call they gave Ben Roethlisberger and you start to question if they actually did have it out for Seattle in this game. What a painful way to lose.

12:02 look at Randle el at the bottom of the screen holy hell

To quote Mike Holgrem, " I knew we were playing the Steelers, I didn't know we were playing the refs as well." Gets fined for stating something obvious though

That stadium was 80% Steelers fans 20% Seahawks fans

This was the last Super Bowl ever broadcast on ABC

R.I.P. John Madden

Don’t mean to criticize their success, but 2005 Steelers probably had the luckiest SB run in NFL history. Carson Palmer tears his ACL in the WC, The best kicker in the league that year just shanks the game-tying FG after Ben’s lucky shoestring tackle in the divisional, and the bogus flags against Seattle in this game.

This was the first Super Bowl I ever watched in full. Watched it with my dad and I remember him being really excited since he's a big Steelers fan. Sucks to see how badly officiated this game was though. Seattle couldn't catch a break.

I'm no fan of either team so I can safely say, that was the worst officiated SB ever.

This was the first of 3 straight Super Bowls that saw longtime veteran head coaches get their elusive Super Bowl win to cement their legacies. Cowher, Dungy and Coughlin.

13:23 damn. This drive by Matt Hasselbeck and the Seahawks was incredible. It could've been known as one of the best drives in super bowl history if not for that holding call at the very end that took away a first-and-goal catch and stunted ALL of the momentum. They would have taken a 17-14 lead if they were able to score a TD. Smh Game could have ended a lot closer and better than it did. Goddamn it refs.

1:50, this happens nowadays, and all hell breaks loose

This game is in honor of Bill Cowher being inducted into the pro football hall of fame based on this upload tonight!!!! This has to be considered the least likable super bowl game I’ve ever watched. Thanks anyway, NFL Throwback

Flag bowl, the questionable call BOWL

Here after Ben played his last game in Heinz Field. What an amazing career Roethlisberger has achieved. I hope nothing but the best for his retirement

"Neutral site" lol

The definition of a vs the refs game

Damn 2006 was a terrible year for officiating, first the super bowl then the heat vs mavs NBA finals, it’s like both of those officiating crews wanted the underdogs to win and not the true better team smh🤦🏿

The true first super bowl that a team had a home game.

This was one of the worst games I've ever watched. Some of the worst officiating in NFL history was in display. If anything, refs should try to be lenient on penalties in order to make the Superbowl interesting, not favor the winning team. No class from the players or the refs

I hope they post highlights of every super bowl . Thats will be the geatest gift ever

NFL referee Bill Leavy, 8/6/2010 The veteran official began an annual training-camp rules interpretation session with the Seattle media after practice on Friday by bringing up the subject without being asked. "It was a tough thing for me. I kicked two calls in the fourth quarter and I impacted the game, and as an official you never want to do that," said the veteran of 15 NFL seasons and two Super Bowls. "It left me with a lot of sleepless nights, and I think about it constantly," Leavy said of the February 2006 game. "I'll go to my grave wishing that I'd been better."

There were some questionable calls in this super bowl that didn't go the seahawks way they got kinda robbed

13:29 if the teams switched this is a flag 115% sure

It should have been called Super Bowl Xtra Large

Congrats on your bogus super bowl. What a sham of a game. I'm glad Seahawks fans finally got one in 2013. Also, mike Holmgren deserves to be in the hall of fame if Bill Cowher does.

This game is also known as the “refs game”

Alright Throwback, I hope the top 100 playoff plays comes out before Sunday, and even if it doesn’t i won’t be mad, but I just want something to pass the time on Saturday lol.

This was a Steelers home game with all those terrible towels twirling in the stadium. It was 80% Steeler fans and only 20% Seahawk fans. You just had a feeling that when the Steelers took the field to their song “Right Here Right Now” by Fatboy Slim you just knew they weren’t gonna lose. Yes you can blame the officiating and all those bad calls all you want but you just had that feeling in that stadium with Jerome Bettis playing his final career game in his hometown that the Steelers were gonna win. And a classy move by the Steelers to allow Jerome to run on the field first during team intros. That was great to see. And I was happy to see Bill Cowher win that Lombardi and hand it over to the late Dan Rooney at the end. That was a class move by a class act like Cowher. Had a lot of respect for him.

As a Colts (and Peyton Manning) fan, this game was impossible for me to watch. Thank Kaz I will never be able to see it again.

Ladies and Gentlemen I give to you the worst Super Bowl in NFL History of all time!

I have this game in widescreen HD (because the nfl rebroadcasted it in that quality), what’s the excuse for this?

Awesome thank you! It would be cool if we got the Bears vs Colts Super Bowl since that was played in Miami! Just a thought 🙂

The Ref Bowl

I said it 14 years ago, and I'll say it again. Ben Roethlesbergers "touchdown" never crossed the plane. I just rewatched this after 10 years since the last time and my view is unchanged. Does that mean the Hawks deserved to win this one? Maybe not but that touchdown took a lot of momentum away from us.

I rewatched this game and damn I saw what mike holgrem was talking about.

That was my first year watching football. I remember every game so vividly. I couldn't believe the run we had. That was my first season where i never missed a game that thwy olayed on T.V. back then, we didnt have redzone or nfl Sunday ticket. I remember being so happy, called ny dad and said the Steelers won the Superbowl! Woooooo.

This game still gets me mad to this day. I can't believe the refs did them dirty.

So happy I got to see Hines Ward have an awesome game! Been fortunate to see him come visit a couple practices in high school and know him.

WWE matches are more legit than Super Bowl 40.

Should’ve been called “the most rigged super bowl in nfl history”

The first ever super bowl I watched, and it happened to fall on my birthday

I thought the NFL was embarrassed from this match

The last Super Bowl televised on ABC

Matt Hasslebeck was throwing some dots

What an incredible victory, I'm not a fan of the Steelers but they have all my respect

0:26 tells you everything you need to know. This was a Steelers home-game.

Is was at Parris Island during this game, only super bowl I've missed.

love ❤

That was the very last NFL game on ABC before it moves to ESPN but the NFL returned to ABC in 2016 for a wild card playoff match and ABC returns to pro bowl in 2018 it was for the first time since 2003

I always thought Jeremy Stevens held the Seahawks back.

As a Seahawks fan I really have nothing nice to say about this game whatsoever. The outcome was decided before kickoff

Anyway you can do a classic Seahawks game where they, ya know, win XD. Either way, thanks for the upload ig? This was a pretty painful game

Great era

Last Super Bowl on ABC/ESPN as of 2023. Has 17 Years Since That ABC Never Aired "The Big Game"

matt was throwing dimes

You messed up the title. It’s “Referees cheat the Emerald City out of it’s first Super Bowl”. There. Fixed it. And I don’t even like the Seahawks.

For as bad as the low block call was, what really cost the Seahawks the game was going 1 for 3 in the redzone and missing 2 field goals. Big Ben doesn't badly underthrow Cedric Wilson and it's a 28-10 blowout.

Came to read salty Seahawks fans comments lol

I was too young to realize Seattle got shafted by the refs all game long😂

Everybody knows Rothlesburger was short on that dive to the end zone.

James Harrison was a special team player,let that sink

big bens helmet was in the endzone and the ball was on his hip and they called it a td

Nfl wanted the Steelers to win this game

Foi o Último Super Bowl Com Narração da ESPN em Bristol de 2007 ate hoje A ESPN no Brasil Faz as Transmissões de Super Bowl ao vivo do local onde a partida acontece.

It was matchfixed

6:56 big Ben: look up

This game was the biggest ref screw job ever. The Seahawks had this game stolen from them. Every single call went against them.

Tbh Seattle could be 3/3 for Super Bowls

Seeing Paul Allen on there made me so sad...

Make no mistake about it but Bill Cowhers celebration was the most anticlimactic celebration I've witnessed

What's more ridiculous: The way the officials made sure the steelers won this shit, or the fact the Bill Cowher is in the HoF because of it?

War damn 🦅

Kind of off topic but since Cowher is in the Hall of Fame does that mean that Mike Tomlin Will be a Hall of Fame coach as well?

This was definitely a heavy Steelers crowd since Detroit is only a couple hours from Pittsburgh by plane.

If only the Steelers were still this good

It’s laughable to me that people actually think a few penalties decided this game. Seattle committed so many mental errors but somehow those were ignored because of a few penalties? C’mon.

I remember looking forward to this match up soooo much. Too bad the refs got in the way. I really hope something like this never happens again. (That being said, it's not the Steelers fault the game was wrecked by officiating. The Steelers may have won either way. Unfortunately we'll never know.)

I miss Jerome "the bus" Bettis💯

The final ABC broadcast of a Super Bowl and a NFL game *Interesting fact, ABC sent Al Michaels to NBC so that Universal can give Walt Disney Company Disney’s creation Oswald the Lucky Rabbit

This shit destroyed me as a kid, but made the next one so much sweeter.

im more pissed about this game than i am about super bowl 49

Seattle Seahawks was member AFC West Division from 1976 through 1993 and Pittsburgh Steelers was member AFC Central Division from 1970 through 1993 era

Don't get me wrong, there were some questionable calls that went against the Seahawks, but they had plenty of opportunities to make up for it and they didn't take advantage of those opportunities, they lost it fair and square if you ask me

I miss 2005!

18:52 what was James farrior saying to that Tight end

I'm a Steelers fan, but the Seahawks got shafted big time in this game. Seahawks fans anger is warranted and then to add insult to injury they got shafted by your own coach 9 years later. Thank god they at least won one.

This channel is how a young man learns about the NFL!!

9:33 fast Willie Parker

Illegal block below the waist thrown against a quarterback trying to make a tackle on his own interception. Ok, refs.

The matchup for this Super Bowl should've been the Detroit Lions VS. Pittsburgh Steelers

The most FIXED super bowl I’ve ever seen

I'd pay to see how Twitter would have reacted to this game had it existed then

Happy for Cowher, but sad Hasselbeck never got a ring