Referee of Seattle's Super Bowl loss admits errors

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Saying "I'll go to my grave" with regret, NFL referee Bill Leavy reopened a Seahawks' wound that won't heal by acknowledging he made mistakes in Seattle's disputed, 2006 Super Bowl loss to the Pittsburgh Steelers.

The veteran official began an annual training-camp rules interpretation session with the Seattle media after practice on Friday by bringing up the sore 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 game in February 2006. "I'll go to my grave wishing that I'd been better."

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Despite now living in Washington state, I'm not a fan of the Seahawks...they're in the same division as the 49ers after all. However, anybody who watched this particular Super Bowl with an open mind has to admit Seattle got robbed..

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1. That really was the worse referreed game...don't know if Pittsburgh

would have won without all that help, but it certainly makes you wonder.

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2. Thanks to the terrible officiating we'll never know

but Seattle won almost every stat (including turnovers) and Roethlisberger finished with a shockingly anemic QB rating of 22.6, the lowest by a winning QB in Super Bowl history.

All anybody expects out of these games is fair and as mistake free as possible officiating. Unfortunately we didn't get that in SB XL.