Seahawks air gripes over Super Bowl calls with NFL 

	Mike Holmgren had plenty of complaints about the officials in Super Bowl XL. Brian Bahr/Getty Images
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Last Wednesday, exactly 100 days after the Seahawks fell to the Steelers in Super Bowl XL, NFL director of officiating Mike Pereira boarded a plane for Seattle. Truth be told, he was a little apprehensive. That's putting it mildly.

"Oh, we're loaded up for Mike,'' Seattle coach Mike Holmgren said of Pereira's visit the day before he arrived.

Pereira was going into the same kind of road venue North Carolina enters at Duke, the Red Sox walk into at Yankee Stadium, the Cowboys experience at Philadelphia. Overly dramatic? I don't think so. This was nothing less than the 268th game of the 2005 NFL season. It wasn't at Qwest Field. It wasn't played with either fanfare (no one has reported it until now) or fans. But butterflies were in the stomachs of some of the people in the room before this game began in a meeting room at the Seahawks' training complex in suburban Kirkland.

Someone from the NFL visits every team in the spring to discuss the rules changes and clarifications and points of emphasis for the coming season. It would have been easy for Pereira, knowing that the Seahawks still feel they got screwed by the officiating in Pittsburgh's 21-10 championship win, to dispatch an aide to Seattle for this year's seminar. That would have been the chicken way out, though, and Pereira knew it. So last Thursday at 9 a.m. sharp, on the second day of an Oakland-Seattle swing, he walked into the meeting room and looked at a sea of unhappy faces. Call it Sixteen Angry Men.

You've heard of Twelve Angry Men, one of the best films of all time, about the tensions in a Manhattan jury room. This one could have been angrier, except that Holmgren, trying to head off some real fury, called a meeting before his 15 coaches left the office the evening before this meeting. He told them not to rail at Pereira but to air their differences with respect when they discussed some very close calls -- all of which seemed to go against the Seahawks.

"This is Mike Pereira, fellas,'' Holmgren said when he ushered Pereira into the room. "He and I used to be really good friends.''

Chuckles.

Then a story was told about Gail Pereira, the officiating czar's wife, meeting Holmgren's wife, Kathy, at the league meetings in Florida in March. Gail said she figured there was no way Kathy would want to speak to her when she found out she was talking to Mike Pereira's wife. "No,'' Kathy said. "You're the Pereira we want to speak to.''

More chuckles.

Half of Pereira's 3½-hour appearance was about the 2006 rules. Half was about the calls in the Super Bowl. In a nutshell, Seattle and the National Football League have made peace. But they absolutely do not agree, and never will, on some of the biggest calls in question.