So While Everyone Accuses the Patriots of Cheating, the Seahawks' Illegal Wedge Has Gone Unnoticed

So, I just saw this today (thanks to my friend quoting this tweet and mentioning me in it). Kind of absurd to be honest. The Patriots are getting a TON of shit for tampering with their footballs (something every team does) and meanwhile, the other team in the Super Bowl isn't getting any shit for pulling off illegal plays.

This is from the NFL's site, the year they changed the rule to only allow five players on each side of the ball on onside kicks:

Also on kickoffs, the kicking team can't have more than five players bunched together pursuing an onside kick. Breaking this rule would draw a 5-yard penalty.

This isn't even up for debate like the Patriots deal is. This is straight up illegal and the refs missed it. Yeah, Brandon Bostick should have caught the ball/just done his job and blocked for Jordy Nelson to catch it. I've said that a million times. But who knows, the guy on the Seahawks that did catch it coulda been the sixth man added to that side of the ball. This and the offsides call that was missed on Aaron Rodgers' first INT are bullshit. These, in my opinion, are worse than the calls in the Cowboys/Lions game and the Packers/Cowboys game. The calls in those games were based on the refs making calls based on what they saw. They were certainly debatable calls, and they could have gone either way. The two in this game are formation issues. You literally have a line judge standing on the sidelines at the line of scrimmage that can determine both of these things. If a guy is offsides, you can see it because he's over the line of scrimmage. If they have six men in an illegal wedge on an onside kick, all you have to do is count them. It's not that fucking hard, and the refs messed it up. And this is not me making excuses for how poorly the Packers played down the stretch. It should NOT have even come down to an onside kick. BUT it did. And you expect the refs to be prepared to make the right calls in critical situations like this. And they fucked up real bad. Because guess what happens when the Seahawks have to re-kick this? Brandon Bostick is so keen on blocking instead of going for the ball this time that he barrels over every Seahawk on the fucking field and Jordy takes it to the house, obviously. So have fun in the Super Bowl that you don't deserve to be in Seattle, because we're coming for you and your bullshit next year. Patriots by 80.

P.S. Pete Carroll, you deserve anything terrible that happens to you. You're a horrible person and I despise you.