You guys played a good game, and we love your coach—he did wonders for our D in Minn.

It’s always annoying when a debatable yellow flag changes the entire momentum. Yes, it’s frustrating, but Steeler fans have been through the same thing – I know because, growing up in Butler, I have plenty of them in my family.

On behalf of the good folks in Minnesota, I apologize if our comments have been overly excessive or seem “whiny” – it was just a really tough way to lose a game.

Seriously, this kind of crap is unneeded. Everybody points fingers when they lose, that’s why this is the internet, man. People need to vent their spleens, or would you rather them go smash their cars into a bus load of Cub Scouts? Let it go.

Obvious troll is obvious.

The Vikings fans are sore losers and cry babies. We had a pass interference call on Miller that was terrible that took points off the board. Fox was mugged on the kick return and they got a touchdown out of it. Brett Farve and Chester Taylor cost Minnesota the game. It had nothing to do with the officiating……

Dugan half assed tried to trip after he whiffed on his block. The intent was there. Tougher team won.

I thought Steeler fans were classy! Well 99.999% of them are.

Steelers played it tough. It was a good game. Sadly the Vikes lost.

Now can anyone delete this whole thread?

If this thread were deleted we’d see the start of Communism as we know it.

or become a local government.

Yeah. Posts like this bother me. Calling other teams fans ‘whiny bitches" doesn’t sit well with me, especially if I am part of the fanbase.

though i doubt communism will rise if this thread is deleted.

So, I’ll just cut and paste here…

I just was watching the NFL Network and both Deion Sanders and Steve Mariucci completely agreed with the tripping call.

Maybe Mike Pereira will discuss this in this "Official Review" segment, who knows? But according to Deion and Mooch (neither one of which are afraid to call out the refs if they think it is a bad call) the tripping call was made becuase he kicked out his legs. WIthout that, it is a body block. But when he kicks out his legs as he goes down, it is a trip, and will be called every time.

As for the "Game changing fourth quarter" argument, I’m not a big fan. If something is a penalty in the first quarter, it needs to be a penalty in the fourth.

Oh, and by the way, feel free to protect your quarterback so he doesn’t get the ball stripped on the next play…

My point is that the refs did not wave off the touchdown and then give the ball to Pittsburgh at the spot of the foul. They gave it back to the Vikings who then failed to pass protect and lost the ball. That is not the ref’s fault. Talk to your Offensive line.

If the Vikings had manafged to strip the ball after the "passing interference" call on Miller, and run it back for a TD, it would have been the same point swing.

But they didn’t. Instead, Pittsburgh converted a field goal and the Vikings lost the ball to the Pittsburgh defense and gave up seven.

The Vikings were beat by the Steelers — not the refs. If you are going to be a championship team, you need to learn to accept responsibility for your own actions.

Quit whining about it already. Your team is 6-1 with a real good shot at the playoffs.

When I see someone making a complete hysterical jackass out of themselves in public, I don’t see the need to yell at everybody, “Look at the jackass! What a big jackass!” Especially in these parts where there’s been so much history of that type of behavior.

Even though it’s a bye week, let’s just get back to business.