TUSK asks the 6pack... (football fix)

[TUSK.sixpack]

two parter:<div>what is the worst, most atrocious calls both <font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">for</font>, and <font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">against</font> your team (in football)...<div>
</div><div>let's confine responses to the last 30 years...</div><div>
</div><div>off the top of my head, the worst two I can think of (right now) were:</div><div>
</div><div>1983 Preston Gothard non touchdown Penn State (against)...</div><div>2009 P Peterson non-interception LSU (for)....</div> </div>

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

two parter:<div>what is the worst, most atrocious calls both <font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">for</font>, and <font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">against</font> your team (in football)...<div>
</div><div>let's confine responses to the last 30 years...</div><div>
</div><div>off the top of my head, the worst two I can think of (right now) were:</div><div>
</div><div>1983 Preston Gothard non touchdown Penn State (against)...</div><div>2009 P Peterson non-interception LSU (for)....</div> </div>

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

two parter:<div>what is the worst, most atrocious calls both <font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">for</font>, and <font class="Apple-style-span" size="5">against</font> your team (in football)...<div>
</div><div>let's confine responses to the last 30 years...</div><div>
</div><div>off the top of my head, the worst two I can think of (right now) were:</div><div>
</div><div>1983 Preston Gothard non touchdown Penn State (against)...</div><div>2009 P Peterson non-interception LSU (for)....</div> </div>

 

[jeremyrbrown]

Against: No pass interference call when Prentiss got mugged in the end zone with the ball in the air against UT in SEC Championship game.

For: Rod Gibson bouncing into the end zone against LSU.

 

[tenureplan]

Against - 2 years ago - The FL strip/fumble into the endzone that was called a TD

For - Im going to catch hell for this - The missed field goal called good to win the SEC West.

 

[Center Z]

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[skeptic]

For: As a lifelong MSU fan, Irefuse toacknowledge that these occur

ETA: Worst due to availability of replay not available for many of the earlier mentioned calls.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

aGAINst: the 2000 LSU non-TD<div>For: the 1999 Rod Gibson TD*</div><div>
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</div><div>*I still believe we actually got it in the previous play</div>

 

[GratefulDawg.sixpack]

For: Rod Gibson TD against LSU in 1999.
Against: Jay Barker non-fumble call in 1992. If that play is called correctly, we win and no UA NC.

I'd bet that just about every response in the For category will be Rod Gibson. I can think of many, many, many calls against.

 

[CivilEngineerDog]

Was sitting right by the end zone. Still cannot believe call.

Best call? Didn't know we ever got one, but I will concur with the TD against LSU in 2000.

 

[RebelBruiser]

would've been different today with replay.

I'm just glad the SEC finally decided to move to using HD TVs in the replay booths, so that they, like every other freaking SEC fan across the nation, could see the blades of grass between a player's toe and the sideline, things of that nature.

The Patrick Peterson INT call TUSK is referring to was made by a replay official looking at a non-HD TV. Why in the hell would the SEC have non-HD TVs in the replay booths as late as 2009? Thanks Rogers Redding.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

I will agree bad calls can change the "flow" of the game, however...

 

[MadDawg.sixpack]

are two calls that there is absolutely no proof whatsoever that they were bad calls. I've never seen a replay of the FG against Ark that shows we missed it. And the same applies to the Rod Gibson TD. Unlike the LSU td in 2000 that has indisputable evidence that the call was missed by a mile.

Our fans seem to love to believe the worst about us.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

how about that "he went outta bounds, but was interfered with, but the other guy touched the ball first, but was ineligible, but it was intercepted" crazy **** in the UM/Bammer game a few years back?... nutty.

 

[DawgatAuburn]

For has to be Gibson.

Against is the phantom clip on Pig's mammoth punt return in Tuscaloosa in 99. That 80 yard penalty changed the game and ended our undefeated run. How bad was it? The SEC apologized for it the following week.

The list of against is long though.....not calling Bama for a penalty when they called our snap count in 92, drawing us offsides when we were going in for the potential game winning TD....the Houston pass two years ago where Tyson was called over the line....the LSU game where Kennison returned a punt 102 yards for a TD after we stopped because an LSU fan blew a whistle.....the LSU touchdown that was really a fumble as illustrated in the picture above.....

And tenureplan, you are crazy. That kick was certainly close, but clearly good.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

that was a huge break for bama... <div>
</div><div>anyone remember Deshea Townsend getting his jersey nearly pulled up over his helmet on a big TE reception allowing MSU to snap the losing streak to Bama in 1996?</div>

 

[therightway]

nm

 

[RebelBruiser]

how about that "he went outta bounds, but was interfered with, but the other guy touched the ball first, but was ineligible, but it was intercepted" crazy **** in the UM/Bammer game a few years back?... nutty.

There were so many things wrong with that one.

1) I don't think it was a reviewable call based on the way I read it in the rule book.
2) Even with the television feed frame by frames produced, there was an angle where it "looked like" our receiver probably touched it first, but there was no camera angle showing a definitive touch that didn't have both players hands on the ball.


Just another case where they were working with non-HD feeds. I still can't believe they were working off small non-HD screens. With the technology available, there was no reason why the league couldn't have bought twelve 50-60" HD TVs to distribute to each replay booth.

Anyway, on that call, as odd/bad as it was, I realize it really didn't matter. If I recall, even if we had received the call in our favor, we would've had the ball at the 4 yard line with 4 seconds left, time enough for 1 play, down 3.

Knowing Ed Orgeron, we would've gone for the TD, but we wouldn't have realized they were going to start the clock back, and we would've failed to get a snap off before the clock ran out, something like that would've occurred, or even if we had been able to get a snap off we would've thrown an incompletion or fumbled the snap, or if we had gone for the FG, it would've hit the upright. It was so frustrating at the time, because Orgeron couldn't get over the hump to pull off a halfway decent win. In hindsight, it doesn't bother me that much. What's the difference between 3-9 and 4-8? Nothing really.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

I still have NO freakin' idea what the "right" call was...<div>
</div><div>it's good to be a Bammer sometimes, I guess... we get more than our fair share of "close" calls....</div>

 

[AROB44]

That's a <17>ing understatement.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

nm

 

[Coach34]

Was sitting right by the end zone. Still cannot believe call.

Best call? Didn't know we ever got one, but I will concur with the TD against LSU in 2000.

a hail mary throw at the end of a game- our CB has inside position and makes the pick- the Mississippi WR jumps on his back during the play and we get called for pass intereference. Easily the worst call against us and one of theSEC's worst calls of all-time

 

[NapoleonDynamite]

There were so many bad calls in that game by the imported WAC officials, I cannot remember which one to choose.<div>
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[RebelBruiser]

I still have NO freakin' idea what the "right" call was...<div>
</div><div>it's good to be a Bammer sometimes, I guess... we get more than our fair share of "close" calls....</div>

I think the officials on the field failed as well.

I can't remember the way things went exactly, but however they called it on the field made it where I believe it was non-reviewable. If they had called it the right way on the field, it would've been reviewable.

Anyway, like I said, just water under the bridge. It frustrated me at the time, but we would've found a way to lose it anyway. We did that in 2007 and even started 2008 on that same path before we finally gained some confidence.

 

[tommyboy1520]

There were just as many no calls.

I still hate BYU.

 

[00Dawg]

I was going with the 1940 Auburn TD catch out of the back of the end zone.

The against has to be the phantom holding call in Tuscaloosa in '99. That was criminal.
For....well, since I believe Gibson actually scored, I can't think of one. Lot of little holding calls here and there, but game changing bad calls in our favor? Nearly non-existent.

 

[maroonmania]

and should have had the ball on around the Bama 35 yard line. Instead Bama kept the ball and went down and scored a go ahead FG for a 23-21 lead. Seem to remember Bama added the very late TD to make it a 30-21 final. However, if we had gotten the turnover and cashed it in to an 8 point lead in the 4th quarter it would have been a totally different game at the end.

 

[jakldawg]

until the fourth quarter. Until that point it was merely mediocre.

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

nm

 

[blacklistedbully]

There are so many that are as bad or nearly as bad. I was at that game. Pace later apologized & admitted he really blew it. I seem to recall the CL coming out the next day with a pic of the INT & a headline of, "Interference my @#$!".<div>
</div><div>That year was particularly frustrating as our only other losses were to a very good Missouri team in a game we played poorly in, a 3 point loss in Tuscaloosa to the #6 Tide (them getting all the calls as usual), & a bizarre 7-6 loss to #19 USM in a game we gained over 500 total yards & they only got past midfield once, & that on a fumbled kick return by us that they cashed in for a TD. Back then USM had our #. Didn't seem to matter how good we were, they were gonna beat us, period.</div><div>
</div><div>To this day, I still believe that 1981 team may have been our best ever. Should have crushed USM, could have easily defeated Bama, had the Egg Bowl stolen by a ref, and just played less than our best against Mizzou. That team should have been no worse than 10-1 reg season & in the Sugar Bowl contending for our first NC.</div><div>
</div><div>The following year injuries devastated our team & we never recovered under Bellard. Still think Emory got the short end of the stick.</div><div>
</div><div>Can't be sure, but I think that might have been the year me & some of my buddies made a "Col Reb" effigy, tied a noose around his neck & ran on the field pre-game, throwing the rope over the crossbar & hanging Col Reb to the delight of many Dog fans in the stadium.</div>

 

[FlabLoser]

When Bama was winning a national chamkionship with Jay Barker, MSU should have beaten Alabama. There was no one single bad call. There were several. Alabama consistently got away with wrapping up and tacking MSU's DL which would otherwise have eaten Barker up.

The call going our way would have to be Rod Gibson fumbling against LSU and getting credited with a TD.

 

[RiverCityDawg]

Against is the phantom clip on Pig's mammoth punt return in Tuscaloosa in 99. That 80 yard penalty changed the game and ended our undefeated run. How bad was it? The SEC apologized for it the following week.

This is the one that instantly came to my mind. I can still picture that exact play from my seat at Bryant Denny.

 

[UpTheMiddlex3Punt]

Like most maroon-blooded State fans, I enjoy watching Ole Miss lose a game, but it has never reached the level of enjoyment I had watching Hawaii take BYU to the shed the week after their refs beat us.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

I thought it was bogus, that they were coming down hard on a school with strong morals, etc. However, after watching that 2001 BYU game, I finally saw why everybody hates them. They project this clean-cut, Donny-and-Marie image, but they're one of the dirtiest teams I've ever seen. To this day, I run off any Mormon missionaries that try to come to my front door.

 

[HammerOfTheDogs]

Against us: Dick Pace messing us over in 1981.

For us: Rod Gibson "scoring" that touchdown against LSU in 1999.

 

[hotdigitydog]

the cadence.......No onehad the god damn balls to make the call AGAINST that +!%@@+.....**** pisses me off til this day.....

 

[drt7891]

but my "against" (I know it isn't a football example, but just as big) has to be the no-call lane violation against UK in the SECT Championship Game last year. So much was on the line on that call and there was NO WAY Wall should have been even CLOSE to pulling down that rebound without stepping into the perimeter. I was at the game and I remember him pulling down the rebound and turning around to shoot a 3 in which he missed, then cousins pushed Varnado out of the way for the rebound and putback. Should have been our ball by a mile. <div>
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[windcrysmary]

our DB has his back to the receiver in the endzone facing the incoming pass and makes the int....THEN the flag was thrown... the ref's response the next day was our guy had shoved the receiver about 8 yeards before they got to the endzone...

worst call ever...

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

Was Montgomery:<div>
</div><div>A) not disciplined enough to stay on side or</div><div>B) not intelligent enough to discern the difference between his QB's signals and that of the opposition's LB? (late in the season, I might add)...</div>

 

[TUSK.sixpack]

I don't believe Sullins was on the NC team (1992).