In my opinion, he deserved it based on his 13 year career alone and for all of his accomplishments. Not based on this season alone. I mean, last season Bettis proved he still is dominant... but ever since his injury, he hasn't been the same and it's definitely time for him to go out and what better way to finish his illustrious career then to go out with a Super Bowl win. I don't think Cowher would have kept Jerome Bettis around if he didn't think that he could still contribute to the team and if he didn't think he could still contributed he and the Pittsburgh front office would've talked Bettis into retiring rather than flat out releasing him. In my opinion, Pittsburgh deserved it more than Seattle for what they accomplished... winning 3 roads against the #1, (Indy), #2 (Denver), #3 (Cincinnati), possibly the three best teams in the AFC excluding New England. Again, there's so many Pittsburgh fans here in NJ and I can't stand them, I really like Seattle and was hoping they'd win... I like Bettis and I think he deserved to finish his career off with a ring despite not making much noise in the regular season, some questionable calls in this game... I don't think the game was rigged though, it just seems like when a game doesn't go the way they want... they always use the excuse "the game was rigged by the officials". Yeah, there were some bad calls but I don't think the game was rigged... it was a good game, could've been better... but still good.
