Nebraska -1.5 at Sparty (ov/un 44.5) Sat 3:30 ABC/ESPN2

[buckeyesin07]

Why would Nebraska fans brace for that? Their best hope for a win is bad officiating.

...in basketball AND football, evidently.

 

[BB73]

The PI in the end zone on the Sparty DB was an atrocious call. Trumped only, possibly, by the horrible call that brought back the Sparty INT touchdown. Look, I get that you're a Nebraska fan and see things in one direction, but I (unlike you) don't really care who won the game (in fact, if anything, I was cheering for Nebraska b/c the last thing I want is for scUM to be in the Big Ten championship game). But to suggest that the refs didn't screw over MSU is laughable (and to attempt to appeal to the total number of penalties in support for that ridiculous proposition is even worse).

I finally watched this game today. I was amazed at the penalty called on Johnny Adams blocking Kenny Bell during the interception return that was going to put Sparty up 30-14 (pending an XP) without the penalty. He was making what looked like a legal block on a WR that was behind the play, but who could potentially have caught up to the play, since the guy with the ball wasn't running in the clear, and Bell is fast. It wasn't a cheap shot or a dirty play, it was a legal, strategic block, and calling it a penalty was BS. Maybe the ref remembered the flop by Adams earlier and decided to pay him back for that.

There were other calls and non-calls in the game, but that was the one that really stood out to me as a call that affected the outcome. None of the late hits out of bounds or PI/non-PI calls looked egregious to me.

Note to knapplc: I haven't yet seen the last 3 minutes, since my recording was cut off.

 

[Born4Corn]

...in basketball AND football, evidently.

False. We have no hope in basketball, at least not in Miles's first year anyway.

 

[knapplc]

Earholing a player from their blind side is what got Nebraska's Eric Martin suspended for a game back in the Big XII. So Nebraska Fan isn't likely to have too much sympathy for that penalty against Johnny Adams on the INT return.

 

[buckeyesin07]

Earholing a player from their blind side is what got Nebraska's Eric Martin suspended for a game back in the Big XII. So Nebraska Fan isn't likely to have too much sympathy for that penalty against Johnny Adams on the INT return.

. The refs blew the same penalty (purportedly) once in the history of Nebraska football, and that justifies what BB73 said about the penalty in this year's Nebraska-MSU game? I guess I'm not surprised that would be your response.

 

[ScriptOhio]

Caption this:

Whether we win or whether we lose,
This is the cheer we always use.

YOU CHEATED!

YOU CHEATED!

 

[SidehatchHusker]

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[VprHis]

I was at this game, sitting near a couple clusters of Huskers. We were having a great time all through the game deciding who was getting the worse calls from the refs.

After the PI call in the end zone, the Huskers declared us the winner.

End of debate. :)