Eh. The thread’s not about most consequential blatantly incorrect officiating errors it’s just most blatantly incorrect officiating errors. How important it was is sort of beside the point.
Of course, I’m the guy saying it doesn’t belong here anywhere, so I don’t know what the hell I’m arguing with you for.
You could very well be right (and the officiating was apparently terrible). I was just curious because I had never heard this controversy. I barely remember the game; I certainly don’t remember any details.
Softball. Woman on first. I hit a line-drive to the 1B it has a weird spin on it and actually hits the ground before getting to the first baseman…ump calls me out on Infield Fly Rule. Whic…what…? Not only was it not a flyball, you can’t call it with a person just on 1B.
Indoor soccer, ref calles goal when the ball hits the wall about two feet awayf rom the goal. Ref said it bounced off a stanchion inside the goal.
Outdoor soccer. Played with those goals under football goalposts so that there’s a couple of feet between crossbars. Ball goes through hole in net, but ref says the ball went between the crossbars. Okayyyyyy ref.
Oh…REAL sports? ok. Last year…MLB.
Man on first… ball hit to 2B he tosses to SS who throws to first. The batter beats the throw easily. But umps rule man on second and the batter out. HUH? Wha??
I can see a ruling that leaves no men on base. (Some kind of interference by the man on 1B) I can see a man on 1B (What should have happened) I can see two men on base if the SS missed the bag…but how the hell do you wind up with a runner on second who was clearly out and no man on 1B who beat the throw by a mile??
The announcers just sat there, and mumbled, “We don’t know what just happened. I don’t know how to score that.”
Then there’s the MLB commisioner just making up rules on the spot. All-Star tie game?? So they ran out of pitchers? Big deal. There are still nine guys on the scorecard. Make one of them pitch.
Rays-Phils World Series. It looks like a WS game might be shortened on account of rain. Commisioner then and there rules no playoff game will be shortened for rain. It will have to be suspended. The game ended up being tied, but that’s how he was going to rule
From women’s world cup several years back. A shot comes in, goes off the post, bounces toward an Equitorial Guinea defender who grabs the ball and holds it for a good 3 seconds then drops it. Nothing called. The Australian women were stunned that no penalty was awarded. I was watching it live on TV and had to laugh.
Olympic basketball, 1972 gold medal game, US vs. USSR. The very definition of blatant.
Speaking of Ed Hochuli, there was a Chargers/Broncos game 5 years back or so. Chargers are up by 7, with very little time left. Broncos have the ball and are driving. They make it to the Charger’s 20 yard line, but Jay Cutler fumbles it due to a few Chargers defensive players making it to the backfield. Ed blows his whistle, and a Charger scoops up the ball. It was correctly determined that since he blew the whistle, the play was dead and the Broncos keep the ball. They score, go for two and win.
I think I saw that one live.
The Commissioner said he wasn’t going to reverse the score, no matter what.
Vague, perhaps. Blatantly incorrect to allow this to happen? Obviously.
Which would have exhausted the Patriots players, making the snowplow more advantageous, as you point out here:
I think I know what is going on here, because you are so offended I brought up this as an example.
Yer a Boston sports fan, aren’t you?
Come clean, don’t lie to me. I’ll break you down if you try.
Wow.
There was the phantom call against Maurice Edu in the USA vs Slovenia match in 2010 that cost the US 2 points and nearly lost them the group. Higher stakes error, but not nearly as blatant.
What’s the equivalent to missing that penalty? Something like in the NFL where after getting tackled a player gets up off the ground, walks the ball an addition 10 yards down the field and the refs use that as the spot?
1988 summer Olympics in Seoul, when Park-Sihun beat Roy Jones 3-2 when everyone, even Park, thought Jones beat the crap out of him.
I didn’t ask what else the commissioner said. I asked if the commissioner acknowledged that there was no rule against the act. Try again.
Please look up “blatant” and get back to me.
Like playing football in a blizzard? There is a long way from “more advantageous” to “let’s invoke a rule that has never been defined, not enforced in the history of the league.”
This would be an interesting point if I hadn’t already, explicitly and clearly, referred to the act as gamesmanship at best and cheating at worst. At absolutely no point have I actually defended the Patriots. I’ve been defending the officials who as far as I know do not work for the Patriots organization. I award you no points.
Have you noticed the flocks of non-Patriots fans rushing to agree with you in this thread? No? Huh.
I’m bored now. I’m going to do something productive with my time.
In soccer, this was a bad call:
I saw that one live too. We drove all the way from Canada for that &^%$ nonsense :). Really good game otherwise.
…I’m not American, I don’t really follow American football, nor the various rules it has, but it seems pretty obvious that this was not a blatant incorrect officiating error. If the best you can do is point to a rule that in the history of the game has never been enforced, then you don’t really have an argument. All you’ve got left are ad hominems.
And really lame threats.
Does screwing up a video replay count? Ottawa Redblacks against the Montreal Alouettes, 2014:
http://ottawacitizen.com/storyline/cfl-officials-admit-they-messed-up-the-redblacks-possession-call
Damn near everyone in the stadium, including the officials on the field, knew overturning the original call was a mistake, and even the league admitted it a few days later.
That wasn’t an “officiating error” so much as it was biased judging - there was a lot of “home cooking” in Olympic boxing in 1984 as well as 1988. (Of the 11 USA boxers in 1984, all but 3 won gold medals, one lost a decision in the final, one (Holyfield) was DQed, and one (Michael “Who’s He?” Shannon) was knocked out early in the tournament.) What happened to Jones played a major part in AIBA switching to electronic punch-count scoring by 1992.
Now, what happened to Holyfield might qualify; in his semi-final bout in 1984, the referee called “Stop”, but apparently Holyfield’s opponent had a glove over one of Holyfield’s ears and he didn’t hear it, and just as we was calling “Stop” a second time, Holyfield threw a punch that knocked his opponent out. The referee ruled “hitting after a ‘stop’ command”, and since the opponent was knocked out, Holyfield was automatically disqualified. Technically, that should have resulted in Holyfield not receiving any medal, but whatever USA Boxing was called at the time complained, and AIBA “compromised”; the disqualification stood, but Holyfield could keep the bronze medal.
Speaking of Jones, I am half-expecting NBC to “arrange” for him to be given a gold medal as an apology for 1988, the way they had Muhammad Ali given a replacement gold medal for the one he won in 1960 and subsequently (supposedly) threw into a river.
Your refusal to answer yes or no to the question speaks volumes. Your a typical entitled butt-hurt Patriots fan that cant accept an example that paints their team in a bad light.
Thank you for letting me off the hook. I was desperately hoping to find a way out of your non-sensical interaction.
Who asked you, anyway? Buzz off.
Pit posters you’re annoyed with, but stop this way of replying to anyone outside of it.