[Husker] For your enjoyment....

[Nick Chevance]

On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 9:36 AM, Jerry Meyer <jerry0315 at yahoo.com> wrote:
> Well, looks like the ball's forward progress has been stopped.  Gabbert's
> forward progress was reversed.  This may be as "egregious" (remember that term
> from last year's Texas game?) an error as I have ever seen.  Among bad calls, it
> ranks right up there with the Kelly Phelps "non-fumble" in 1978 OU game (I think
> his forward progress was stopped as well!), everything about the 1981 Clemson
> bowl game and the couple of calls in the 1993 Florida State bowl game
> (I'm referring to season year, not to the actual year of the bowl game for these
> examples).
>
> If nothing else, the replay official should be suspended for the rest of the
> season.  If the on field officials influenced his decision, they should get the
> opportunity to sit out with the replay official.  Unless of course, Mr.
> Commissioner was manning the replay spot!  Conspiracy?  Who knows?  But the best
> way to overcome these things is for Huskers to just keep winning and drive Beebe
> nuts!  Much more fun to laugh at him than gripe about him (or his minions).
>
> Jerry Meyer
> Murfreesboro, TN

Its very interesting that we have a concern for the quality of
officiating this last week.  I usually go to HuskerMax and click on
the most-local paper account for how the game was seen by the other
side.  This week the first link was the Columbia Tribune recount of
the game.  The paper account was pretty accurate - the comments
were....hilarious, if not terribly insulting.  I think it was running
30% Pinkel should be fired, shot, buried alive, or all of the above;
and a good 30% the officiating cost us the game.  To be fair, a good
portion of the rest of the comments were realistic that they played
poorly, they came into the game unprepared, and despite the hopes of
the early third quarter, the last two Husker drives were clock (and
game) killers (erased a 10 minute difference in possession time).  A
few were honest enough to admit the Huskers beat them.

But the complaints about the referees was priceless.  Apparently the
people at home watching on TV could see as good as the fans sitting
around me in Section 20, though those fans had remarkable vision from
that distance.  I don't remember any of them mentioning Gabbert's
fumble, or his progress stoppage.  That wasn't on their radar for some
reason.  But the hit certainly was.

Nick
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