Here's [an e-mail] we found to be particularly compelling:
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I don't know who else I can vent on, so you're getting it. I apologize, but I don't know who else. I seriously don't. So here goes:
This Super Bowl was it. I'm done now. I'm through watching football. I've had it.
This was the worst officiated professional game I have ever watched -- the most one-sided, I mean. And it happened on the biggest game of the year. The two teams did not determine the winner of that game today; the referees did.
So I'm through. I quit on the NFL. Screw them. If that's the best they can do, I quit.
I've got other hobbies I can pursue.
Look, I am not a Seahawks fan. I was not a fan of either team.
But sonuva*****-------Roethlisberger's PHANTOM TOUCHDOWN???? That was the hugest phantom touchdown I have seen since Vinny Testaverde pulled one of those off.
And when Hasselbeck connected with TE Jerramy Stevens to the one yard line late in the third quarter, those ******* zebras throw a holding flag -- and it was one of those borderline holding calls that could literally BE CALLED ON ALMOST EVERY DAMN PASSING PLAY.
Look, I came to watch a game, a game between football players. I didn't come to watch a crew of striped-shirted old men determine the outcome of a game.
F those guys. I'm out. The hell with football. I no longer trust it.
There was no 2005 champion. If the Steelers had won it, I'd say so. But the zebras won it, for 60 consecutive minutes. Again, I am not a Seahawks fan. I just care about the integrity of the game. I feel sick. I'm out. Maybe for good. The hell with it.
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