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Bill Leavy: NFL Referee Admits the Truth – Seattle Won Super Bowl XL!

August 7, 2010   ·     ·   Jump to comments


 
Anyone who saw the game knew it at the time, even as the NFL, the network suits, and the people of Pittsburgh tried to claim otherwise.
The Seattle Seahawks easily defeated the Pittsburgh Steelers back in 2006. The game wasn't even that close.
But they couldn't beat the referees that day and so the Steelers, unjustly or not, were allowed to raise the Lombardi Trophy and claim their fifth Super Bowl title.
Back then there were a lot of rumors about why it happened. Everything from the league owners wanting to give one of the world's richest men his comeuppance, to the powers that be in the NFL felt they owed it to the Rooney family.
Now Bill Leavy, the head referee of the game is just plain saying he screwed up and didn't totally understand the rules of the game. 
http://profootballtalk.nbcsports.com/2010/08/06/four-years-later-bill-leavy-apologizes-to-seahawks/
I'm not sure why Leavy is coming out with this now. Did he get clean an...

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