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Worst Call of All Time?

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BuckNutty;1251752; said:
What was he doing?
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I was asleep... and having a nice dream about Stedman.

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Yeah, that was ridiculous. I mean to blow a call on the field happens...but when the replay booth blows it...I mean how does that happen? The guy never possessed the football...even Herbie was searching for words to try to defend that one.
 
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Even I was pissed at the refs for flagging Locker and I'm a pretty avid Ducks fan. That was fucking bullshit. God forbid a kid shows excitement for scoring a potential game-tying TD with 2 seconds left against a top 15 team. He didn't taunt BYU at all.

Get your shit together, Pac-10 officials. You're a disgrace.
 
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billmac91;1251694; said:
Maybe this does not deserve its' own thread, but my God...

At least on the Jake Locker TD celebration, the toss over the shoulder could maybe be considered excessive.

However, the overturned catch in the Florida vs. Miami game was flat out cheating. The SEC booth officials cheated on National TV.

Close game, 3rd and 10 from the UF 40, Tim Tebow throws a pass that is incomplete on the sidelines.

1. The ball was never caught. The UF player never once had possesion of it. He was bobbling it in the air, and clearly had no control of it as the ball rolled down the sidelines after he came to the ground.

2. His elbow wasn't definitively in-bounds. But even if you wanted to give the replay officials the benefit of the doubt on the elbow being in-bounds, it's irrelevant b/c the receiver clearly had ZERO control of the ball.

UF is the better team, but this is proof, in out of conference games the replay officials should be from an outside conference. Miami was in the game until these guys ripped it from them.
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I don't know about "worst call of all time", but I agree with you- the sideline judge got it right and the replay official got it wrong. Bottom line was that even if his elbow DID come down first in bounds, he never had possession. Period.

Locker shouldn't have thrown the ball in the air. Even when Ohio State scores winning TDs against TSUN, we still hand the ball to the official before celebrating. You gotta act like you've been there before, and in Locker's case, he's been there a lot. It's tragic in a sense, but there's still a LOT of ball to be played.

Oklahoma/Oregon was one of the worst calls I've seen in recent years.
 
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BuckTwenty;1251818; said:
Locker shouldn't have thrown the ball in the air. Even when Ohio State scores winning TDs against TSUN, we still hand the ball to the official before celebrating. You gotta act like you've been there before, and in Locker's case, he's been there a lot. It's tragic in a sense, but there's still a LOT of ball to be played.
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He's scored game-tying TD's with 2 seconds left a LOT of times? :roll2: He's beaten how many top 15 teams?

That was a huge moment. If it's the 1st quarter, go ahead and flag that. But not with 2 seconds left in the game. As long as he doesn't taunt the opponent, it's harmless.
 
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BuckTwenty;1251818; said:
You gotta act like you've been there before,
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my only moment of levity today came when watching the SDSU/NoD game.

One of the ND guys was acting like a dickhead after he scored and I yelled at the tv these exact same words...then I realized he probably hasn't ever been there before and said carry on.

No matter how bad it gets, just think of ND or tsun and you will feel better.
 
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billmac91;1251694; said:
Maybe this does not deserve its' own thread, but my God...

At least on the Jake Locker TD celebration, the toss over the shoulder could maybe be considered excessive.

However, the overturned catch in the Florida vs. Miami game was flat out cheating. The SEC booth officials cheated on National TV.

Close game, 3rd and 10 from the UF 40, Tim Tebow throws a pass that is incomplete on the sidelines.

1. The ball was never caught. The UF player never once had possesion of it. He was bobbling it in the air, and clearly had no control of it as the ball rolled down the sidelines after he came to the ground.

2. His elbow wasn't definitively in-bounds. But even if you wanted to give the replay officials the benefit of the doubt on the elbow being in-bounds, it's irrelevant b/c the receiver clearly had ZERO control of the ball.

UF is the better team, but this is proof, in out of conference games the replay officials should be from an outside conference. Miami was in the game until these guys ripped it from them.
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You say that like it's a bad thing...:p
 
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BuckTwenty;1251818; said:
Locker shouldn't have thrown the ball in the air. Even when Ohio State scores winning TDs against TSUN, we still hand the ball to the official before celebrating. You gotta act like you've been there before, and in Locker's case, he's been there a lot. It's tragic in a sense, but there's still a LOT of ball to be played.
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My problem with the call against Locker was that it was a ridiculously strict interpretation of the rule on the part of the official to consider what Locker did "throwing the ball into the air." Locker didn't overhand the ball and rifle it into the air like a pass, nor did he throw it into the stands. He threw both of his arms up in the air in celebration, and the ball happened to be in one of his arms. It's not like the officials were inconvenienced by what Locker did and lost the football either, because the replay shows the ball came right back down and hit Locker on the head.
 
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Dryden said:
My problem with the call against Locker was that it was a ridiculously strict interpretation of the rule on the part of the official to consider what Locker did "throwing the ball into the air." Locker didn't overhand the ball and rifle it into the air like a pass, nor did he throw it into the stands. He threw both of his arms up in the air in celebration, and the ball happened to be in one of his arms. It's not like the officials were inconvenienced by what Locker did and lost the football either, because the replay shows the ball came right back down and hit Locker on the head.
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Please... that's like saying "I didn't mean to punch him, I just extended my arms and his face got in the way." Everybody knows the rules, so why are we upset when they're enforced?
 
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CleveBucks;1252404; said:
Please... that's like saying "I didn't mean to punch him, I just extended my arms and his face got in the way." Everybody knows the rules, so why are we upset when they're enforced?
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Because it's a dumb rule?

I thought it was a perfectly benign act. He wasn't showing up the other team or doing anything coreographed. And it wasn't excessive - it was a display of emotion that fit the moment.

Why do they flag this stuff, and not some of the stupid crap and histrionics that go on when a guy makes a tackle on a four-yard gain? Or how about when Notre Dame scores in garbage time to go up by two possessions against a team that just lost to Cal Poly San Luis Obispo the week before? That's the type of shit that should be flagged, not what Locker did.

It may have been against the letter of the law, but it was not justice.
 
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jlb1705;1252414; said:
It may have been against the letter of the law, but it was not justice.
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Exactly what I was going to say. Yes, it should have been a penalty by the letter of the law, but sure as hell not the spirit of the law. If they want to penalize taunting and celebration, they need to do it every fucking time.

A ND player made a tackle on a kickoff return yesterday and stood up, straddling the returner and celebrated with his teammates. Fucking straddling the returner laying on the ground. The SDSU kid couldn't have stood up without throwing the ND guy down and then HE would have been penalized. That's a far worse display of sportsmanship than what Locker did.

And that same type of shit happens every third play and goes uncalled (maybe even by OSU players :paranoid:)

In the context in which Locker's celebration happened, I say let it go.

That being said, you gotta make the 35 yard XP, dammit.
 
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