Is this similar to every one who while defending Shaquille O’Neill would have a foul called on them when Shaq pushed them out of their position with his fat ass?
I don’t mean to rain on your parade, but I found this humorous considering it seems getting goals from questionable calls is practically a weekly event for Man U.
They’re a great team and I don’t hate them or anything, but they seem to get the benefit of the official’s doubt a lot.
Yes, I believe both scenarios contain the ‘SuperStar Call’.
1999 Playoff game between the Packers and the 49ers: Packers leading 27-23 with about a minute left when Young passes to Rice in the flat and Rice fumbles the ball, Packers recover. Except the refs called Rice down, even though it wasn’t even close (ABout the 7:00 minute mark).
Oooooo, good one, I’d forgotten about that. Talk about getting the Super Star Call.
As a Viking’s fan, I nominate the original Hail Mary pass where Pearson pushed the Viking’s defender. Notice how Pearson goes into the end zone, looks back for a flag, notices there isn’t one, then celebrates. Meanwhile the other Viking’s defender is pointing to Pearson and looking at the ref with “how could you not call that” look.
Australia in World Cup Game, needed to draw to progress and then controversial penalty was awarded to Italy when Fabio Grosso fell under a Lucas Neill challenge in the final seconds of the match. They scored and it was all over…
Even the locals in Lygon St [little Italy] were embarrassed by the falling Grosso and it was discussed that he should have scored a 88 as his entry was flawed!
Was that Ed Marinaro?
Without a doubt, the entire game 6 of the NBA Western Conference Finals, with the most egregious non-call being when Kobe elbowed Mike Bibby square in the face with about 15 seconds left in the game. That Kings team was an absolute joy to watch, and it still rankles me how that game went down.
Marinaro was on offense for the Vikings as a half back. The defender pushed down was Nate Wright, as far as I recall. The other defender pointing out the obviously missed penalty was probably Paul Krause. Wiki supports those assertions.
No, in the video, about 4 seconds in there’s a shot of somebody on the sidelines looking nervous. Looks like he’s wearing one of those big hooded cape things that players used to wear on the sidelines. It might be purple.
Doesn’t that look like Joe Coffey from Hill Street Blues?
You are probably right, that does look like Marinaro at about 4 seconds in.