[Husker] What exactly is the defense doing?

[Bob Beach]

Steve Reichenbach <reich at inetnebr.com> wrote:

> I thought the refs made the right call.  There was a little
> contact, but no way was the receiver going to get to the ball.  I
> didn't see the grabbing and holding that the seemingly biased
> announcer harped about, even after several replays.  To make that
> call and set Wake Forest up with a whole set of downs on a pass
> that wasn't even close to being completed would make the
> officiating more important than the playing.  That's one of the
> complaints about the 1993 bowl game. If a team can't make the
> plays, the refs shouldn't make them for them.




    Please don't start the"biased announcer" thing again.  It is so old and trite.  Let me say it and then maybe we won't have to hear it again.  Every announcer, sportscaster, sideline reporter, news person, media person, sports writer, and anything else one can think of that has anything to do with the reporting of college sports in any form is biased against Nebraska.  They all hate Nebraska and will do or say anything they possibly can to cut down Nebraska.  They do it to no other school, only Nebraska and to NU every single time.  There, and from now on any time we are talking about an announcer this assumption will be made so it shouldn't have to be said.


     That play was an obvious pass interference.  The only possible way they could say it wasn't is if they ruled the ball uncatchable.  As far as the 1993 bowl game or any other game you call the game by the rules and/or judgment.  You don't make a call by what the situation is at the moment.  That would make a mockery of the game.


Bob Beach