Did Zebras Earn Stripes in Super Bowl?

Was it my imagination or did all of the officials have yellow Pittsburgh Terrible Towels in their back pockets?

WAYNE KAMIYA

Hawthorne

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Maybe the Super Bowl refs didn’t pound the nails into the Seahawks’ coffin, but they surely provided the hammer.

RICHARD TURNER

Fontana

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Mr. Adande’s Subpar Bowl column [Feb. 6] has more holes in it than Mad Max’s radiator. Seattle showed no intention of laying an egg until the officials started inducing labor, and then the zebras offered to be the midwife.

PRESTON OLIVER

San Gabriel

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When will the greedy fools who run the NFL learn? Old, fat, out-of-shape high school principals and attorneys have no chance to make the right call with the speed of today’s NFL. The time is now to hire, train, and train some more, full-time professional officials.

Of course, if they start flagging on intent rather than result, as in the case of the boneheaded call on Matt Hasselbeck for making a tackle, it doesn’t matter anyway. Game over.

BRUCE A. MCCLANAHAN

Shell Beach

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A big game is poorly officiated and once again we hear the outcry for full-time NFL referees. Full-time refs would make the problem worse, not better. If you find this hard to believe, you’re not watching the NBA.

ANTHONY MORETTI

Lomita

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Upon further review, the officiating of XL stunk.

JERRY SELBY

Pasadena

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Dear Mike Holmgren,

When you were in Green Bay, your best player was your quarterback. Now you are in Seattle, and your MVP is your running back. So passing the ball 49 times while handing it to Shaun Alexander just 20 times is probably not the way to win a Super Bowl.

Don’t blame the zebras, Coach -- this one’s on you.

RON CORCILLO

North Hollywood

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I’m tired of hearing all those people whining about bad officiating during the Super Bowl. Where were they when the Steelers almost got cheated when Troy Polamalu’s interception against the Colts was incorrectly overruled? Bad calls have a way of evening out over a season. The Steelers won the Super Bowl because they played a better game.

FRED FERKETIC

Newport Beach

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From a football standpoint, the XL in Sunday’s Super Bowl stood for Extra Lousy. The play of both teams was mistake-filled and uninspiring.

But, at least there was some satisfaction in knowing the squad that actually looked like a football team won the game. Seeing the Seahawks in those dreadful, ugly uniforms on artificial turf was like watching kids in pajamas running around on a rec-room carpet.

RICHARD TURNAGE

Burbank

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With all the dropped balls, questionable calls and inconsistent play in the Super Bowl, the real MVP of the day was Mick Jagger, who summed up the game quite well: “No satisfaction.”

RON OVADIA

Irvine

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The NFL is fond of retro jerseys, classic games and everything old school. Well, it’s time to retrofit the rules. Let’s make them better by going back.

There was a time when a touchdown meant something other than an end-zone celebration. It meant touch the ball down in the end zone to score. Enough of this breaking-the-plane foolishness. You want to score? Then touch the ball down.

No more endless and mindless replays to determine whether the “nose of the ball broke the plane.”

And while we’re at it, how come the ground can’t cause a fumble?

THURSTON A. CRIGGLER

Los Angeles

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After watching the halftime show, it’s now official: The Rolling Stones have gathered a lot of moss.

JERRY CLARK

Glendale

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I’m certain that most of your readers are convinced that the reason the Seahawks lost was because Kobe didn’t pass the ball enough.

RALPH S. BRAX

Lancaster