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Virginia Tech 31, Miami 7 (final)

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The amusing part to me is that all of the replays ever shown (and we have all seen them all) pan to the two players in question only during the last 1/3 of the flight of the ball at most. All of the eye-witnesses who have verified that the call was legit say that the interference happened before then (during the first half of the flight of the ball), and the still picture corroborates that. Further, Terry Porter himself has said that he waited so long to throw the flag because he was going over it in his mind to determine if the call should be interference or holding because the foul occurred so early in the play. And yet we have someone patting himself on the back because he's objective enough to make up his mind based on replays that don't show the penalty because it happened before the camera pans to the players in question. He's so much more discerning than the rest of us because he has staked his position on the firm ground of obviously flawed evidence.

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DaddyBigBucks;1555277; said:
The amusing part to me is that all of the replays ever shown (and we have all seen them all) pan to the two players in question only during the last 1/3 of the flight of the ball at most. All of the eye-witnesses who have verified that the call was legit say that the interference happened before then (during the first half of the flight of the ball), and the still picture corroborates that. Further, Terry Porter himself has said that he waited so long to throw the flag because he was going over it in his mind to determine if the call should be interference or holding because the foul occurred so early in the play. And yet we have someone patting himself on the back because he's objective enough to make up his mind based on replays that don't show the penalty because it happened before the camera pans to the players in question. He's so much more discerning than the rest of us because he has staked his position on the firm ground of obviously flawed evidence.

wow

just wow
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Actually since this incident here I went back and found some clips on youtube. I hadn't really given this issue much thought in years because hey, we won so what did it matter? The voice of (Dan Fouts?) always rang in my head (Bad call! Bad call!) Upon further review there was a lot of contact at the the line. It does look like Gamble was held. Before I'd always thought that he'd just got jammed, something that happens on almost all plays. For some reason I'd never seen that grab. So I have to say that yes, there was holding on the play and the flag was legit.
 
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jmorbitz;1555452; said:
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To be honest I hadn't really given it any thought since after the game. I did some looking around the net and now I see that the controversy lives on after all these years. I'd seen it once on a list of "The Top Ten Worst Calls Ever In College Football" and saw it ranked number 2 behind the Oklahoma at Oregon debacle. I'd just assumed it was a bad call.
 
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Controversey? What controversey?

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DubCoffman62;1555460; said:
To be honest I hadn't really given it any thought since after the game. I did some looking around the net and now I see that the controversy lives on after all these years. I'd seen it once on a list of "The Top Ten Worst Calls Ever In College Football" and saw it ranked number 2 behind the Oklahoma at Oregon debacle. I'd just assumed it was a bad call.
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Doing your research you would also see that it was selected in Referee Magazine as one of the "18 Best Calls of All-Time." just sayin...

http://www.naso.org/PressReleases/st143.htm
 
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DaddyBigBucks;1555277; said:
The amusing part to me is that all of the replays ever shown (and we have all seen them all) pan to the two players in question only during the last 1/3 of the flight of the ball at most. All of the eye-witnesses who have verified that the call was legit say that the interference happened before then (during the first half of the flight of the ball), and the still picture corroborates that. Further, Terry Porter himself has said that he waited so long to throw the flag because he was going over it in his mind to determine if the call should be interference or holding because the foul occurred so early in the play. And yet we have someone patting himself on the back because he's objective enough to make up his mind based on replays that don't show the penalty because it happened before the camera pans to the players in question. He's so much more discerning than the rest of us because he has staked his position on the firm ground of obviously flawed evidence.

wow

just wow
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The live coverage during the game showed Porter giving preliminary signals of both holding and PI as he approached the referee to discuss his call. Why that's almost never mentioned is beyond me.
 
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