I would give you all my +nets if I could....We all know what happened.
But really, this sort of shit always comes down from the top. Carol turns a blind eye to the thuggish behavior and roiding out, because there is no length the man will not go to in order to win. He is not really all that different from Jim Schwartz, he just has more talent on his roster and a stadium that pipes in crowd noise and homebrew officiating. Sherman is a good player and well educated man who CHOOSES to act like a complete jackass, which in my book makes him worse than someone who is too stupid to know better. You could say that the refs "owe" them one after all the help the Steelers got from the zebras in their last SB, but that team is gone and with it most of the class.
I seriously doubt they win the Superbowl or even cover the spread, considering how much Ref help they needed to get past the 9ers against Kaeperbro's anemic passing. They are not going to have the zebras in their camp against Denver and tackling (what Seattle calls Pass Coverage) the receivers in the snow against someone with an actual quick read and release is not going to go well for them. The current spread seems like its under the assumption that they will get to mug the wide outs like they do at home. Brady could not keep up with Manning in the snow, even with all of his weapons (less Gronk). Does anyone seriously believe that Wilson is up to that task? Of course, knowing Carol, they will just lake hit Manning early and often, I guess....