[Husker] Does Dan Fouts ever get tired of being an idiot?

[Theodore Heise]

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009, Patrick Gaule wrote:
> Theodore Heise wrote:
>
>> On the play that was reviewed for Ganz fumble, none of the 
>> replays showed his knees or the contact with the ground.  That 
>> was a long wait, by the way.  When the announcer said, "After 
>> review, the player was down..." he was completely drowned out by 
>> cheering as soon as the word "down" came out.
>
> Good summary Theodore.  I wish I could have been there!

It was worth the expense--no doubt in my mind.


> For what it's worth, it was actually Witt who almost fumbled, as 
> Ganz was knocked out on the previous play.

Of course you're right.  Somehow it got muddled up in my mind.  :)


>      ...I can tell you that it was the correct call.  Witt's right 
> knee came down well before the football came out, and it looked 
> like his left knee was down too.  The lack of a good replay in the 
> stadium does explain why the Clemson fans were booing the correct 
> call.

Thanks for the additional information!

My wife went into the concession area during that time, and when she 
came back noted that the guys on the TV coverage showing inside were 
all over the refs about how coould they have called it a fumble.  I 
suspected as much because in the view we had you could see the QB's 
hip come up before the ball came out, and that must have been caused 
by his knee hitting the ground--but without seeing the knee it 
looked doubtful there was enough evidence to overturn.  I was plenty 
nervous.  Also think you are right on the booing explanation.

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Theodore (Ted) Heise     <theo at heise.nu>     Bloomington, IN, USA