Ordinarily, I am not one to admonish the officiating in a game very often, giving the crew the benefit of the doubt, and understanding that they are under obligations to call plays as the rulebooks state, which is sometimes in contradistinction from common sense.
I also acknowledge the human element that allows for degrees of variance for what is allowed or not allowed with respect to certain penalties, such as holding or illegal contact. Some less egregious infractions are called when more egregious ones are not, but this is an inevitability, and basically is what it is.
On Sunday, however, the Pittsburgh Steelers seemed more often than not to be on the short end of the officiating stick, so to speak, and it may have been a bigger topic of conversation had the team not easily rode a six-touchdown offensive performance to victory.