Oh, I see. “What the Patriots did was at least gamesmanship and could fairly be called cheating”. “You just can’t accept anything that casts your team in a bad light!”
And I’m the nonsensical one.
AIUI Tunney was taking a breather, and waited until he heard “Nine” before getting up. If that had happened four seconds earlier, he’d have gotten up four seconds earlier.
As someone who can’t stand the Patriots in any form or fashion, your argument and behavior in this thread is making a really good argument for me to go out and buy a Brady jersey.
He started it.
What, precisely, was the penalty that the officials failed to call, and what, precisely, was the loss of yards for violating that rule?
I’m a Broncos fan, by the way, and have been for some 40 years. Accusing me of being a Patriots fan will probably cause me to hurt myself by falling off of my chair laughing.
We could probably have a whole thread on the bad calls that favored the University of Texas. I’ve followed Texas football for years and until this year’s Oklahoma State game I’ve never seen obvious bad calls go against UTs favor. Here is one example from some time ago…
In 2006. Oklahoma Sooners at Oregon Ducks. There were multiple fuckups that cost the Sooners the game, which was even admitted to by the Pac 10 Commissioner.
- Officials didn’t see that the ball went less that 10 yards before being touched by Oregon first. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=btSGkMBrqI4
- Even if it had, it was still recovered by the Sooners. Replay official says he knew Oklahoma recovered onside kick vs. Oregon - USATODAY.com
- bogus pass interference call. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qijVs8-pOMU
From: Pac-10 suspends officials for errors that cost Oklahoma - ESPN
From: http://newsok.com/article/3777407
The officials were suspended over the deal as the Pac 10 admitted the fuck up. Furthermore it knocked the Sooners out of possible consideration for the National Championship game.
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[/QUOTE]He’s definitely out, but that’s a reasonably close play–I wouldn’t quite put it up there with some of the boners in this thread.
The subject of the film “Assault in the Ring”.
I know its not exactly an on-field officiating error, but i’m not sure any error by an official has ever been (to use the OP’s words)“so wrong, just blatantly wrong…” as the boxing commission officials neglected to check the gloves of Luis Resto before the fight.
the film is well worth a watch btw.
How about “The Holy Roller”? Raiders are about to lose to the Chargers, QB is being sacked, so he just throws the ball forward underhanded and the referee decides to call it a non-intentional forward fumble. Raiders fall on it in the endzone for the win. All the talk is usually about whether it was a fumble or not - well Ken Stabler, the QB who did it, has the answer for you…
… and regardless of any rule changes between then and now about fumbles - it was simply an incomplete forward pass. Overhand or underhand, if you throw the ball forward and it lands on the ground, that’s just a simple incompletion.