Friday, September 22, 2006
Screwed
I am not a Sooner fan. I never have been, never intend to be. I respect Oklahoma. I fear Oklahoma. I have great admiration for Bob Stoops. But I still hate the Sooners.
But I actually felt sorry for them on Saturday. It was only a little bit, and it passed, but I did feel sorry for them.
I do not know how a replay official could mess that call up. Word is that the replay official only had one angle or shot of the actual play and not the feed ABC had. How can that be?
I have felt that the college football replay has been a whole lot better, faster than the NFL's version and have pleaded for the NFL to adopt a similar replay system. But that was really messed up.
I can understand a field official blowing that call. I don't want to hear that the ref is an idiot, when they only get to see it once and we at home or the media see slow motion replay and see it from different angles like what seems 20 times. These field judges do not have the same benefit we have at home. So give them a break.
Sooner fan, settle down. It is not worth threatening this guy's family with death threats or locating where he lives. It just isn't. These guys are human and make mistakes. Don't make this guys life miserable and fearful. You would not want your family being threatened would you?
Who you really should be mad at is the replay official or the people supplying the feed he gets. I do not know what angle the official was looking at when he was looking at the replay. But who is in charge of supplying the camera shots for him? How could we have better view at our home and the offical has only one? He is the one that needs the HD screen shots.
Another point that was made on ESPN was that these officals in the replay booth are local guys, meaning they live around the area where they work the game, in this case, Oregon. Even though I feel if you are a referee, you should not have any bias and I feel most of these officals are too professional to favor a team, there is still a chance that some of that bias could creep in. Why risk those accustations and fly in guys from different conferences to work the replay booth and better yet, get different officials to referee different conference games? I don't know why the PAc-10 insists its officials work all home games against different non-conference opponents.
Change the rule.
Some say the game should not count. That there should be an asterisk or something that wipes out this game. I am sorry but as bad as the game was officialed, we cannot do that. They did not replay or change the outcomes of the band game (Cal-STanford), the Super Bowl, the Lions-Steelers coin flip fiasco, blown call in the '85 World Series between the Royals and Cards and the Jeffrey Maier assisting a Derek Jeter home run in '96 ALCS(Orioles against Yankees). So why should this be any different? Maybe poll voters will consider it but the loss will still affect the BS standings (notice the missing C).
I just wonder if this game is going to mark some kind of turning point for Oklahoma. That years from now, people will look at this game and say "That is where it all began".
But I actually felt sorry for them on Saturday. It was only a little bit, and it passed, but I did feel sorry for them.
I do not know how a replay official could mess that call up. Word is that the replay official only had one angle or shot of the actual play and not the feed ABC had. How can that be?
I have felt that the college football replay has been a whole lot better, faster than the NFL's version and have pleaded for the NFL to adopt a similar replay system. But that was really messed up.
I can understand a field official blowing that call. I don't want to hear that the ref is an idiot, when they only get to see it once and we at home or the media see slow motion replay and see it from different angles like what seems 20 times. These field judges do not have the same benefit we have at home. So give them a break.
Sooner fan, settle down. It is not worth threatening this guy's family with death threats or locating where he lives. It just isn't. These guys are human and make mistakes. Don't make this guys life miserable and fearful. You would not want your family being threatened would you?
Who you really should be mad at is the replay official or the people supplying the feed he gets. I do not know what angle the official was looking at when he was looking at the replay. But who is in charge of supplying the camera shots for him? How could we have better view at our home and the offical has only one? He is the one that needs the HD screen shots.
Another point that was made on ESPN was that these officals in the replay booth are local guys, meaning they live around the area where they work the game, in this case, Oregon. Even though I feel if you are a referee, you should not have any bias and I feel most of these officals are too professional to favor a team, there is still a chance that some of that bias could creep in. Why risk those accustations and fly in guys from different conferences to work the replay booth and better yet, get different officials to referee different conference games? I don't know why the PAc-10 insists its officials work all home games against different non-conference opponents.
Change the rule.
Some say the game should not count. That there should be an asterisk or something that wipes out this game. I am sorry but as bad as the game was officialed, we cannot do that. They did not replay or change the outcomes of the band game (Cal-STanford), the Super Bowl, the Lions-Steelers coin flip fiasco, blown call in the '85 World Series between the Royals and Cards and the Jeffrey Maier assisting a Derek Jeter home run in '96 ALCS(Orioles against Yankees). So why should this be any different? Maybe poll voters will consider it but the loss will still affect the BS standings (notice the missing C).
I just wonder if this game is going to mark some kind of turning point for Oklahoma. That years from now, people will look at this game and say "That is where it all began".
# posted by ttheman @ 6:30 PM 
