First off, what a game Monday night!... BUT, as a Duck fan it was about the hardest way to go down. We fought and fought the entire game and with two minutes left, we tied it on two great plays. The first thing I thought was that there was too much time on the clock for $cam and the Auburn offense. Then a horrible thing happened with about a minute left. Auburn's Dyer got the ball and was almost immediately tackled..... with the refs not watching the play to the very end like they should have done, Dyer popped up and saw his sideline yelling at him to run. To me that triggered the refs to not blow the whistle and let the play go on. They would have made a signal for something if they were watching or just took the chance to let this be the play that would help them break even at the very least (I'll get to this in a bit). Right when this happened, it made me thing of a play that happened in this years Sugar bowl between Ohio State and Arkansas. After checking back on the rules of when a runner is down or not, I confirmed that the wrist is part of the body that counts a player to be down. Follow the link to a video at the bottom that my friend Ben (Happy Birthday man!) turned me to that shows the two plays with the two different outcomes. When the refs reviewed if Dyer was down or not, what were they thinking when they saw Dyer's ankle/calf a millimeter from the ground which to the naked eye looks like it its on the ground? If they didn't see that, they how do you explain Dyer's wrist not counting for him being down? The Arkansas player's wrist was down and it was called down in one game, so in the National Championship why wasn't Dyer's wrist called down?
This just screams that the refs were pissed once Oregon tied it and they then knew that they were only going to break even with a three point spread because you were almost certain a FG was going to win it at that point. Therefore, when you put the outcome of the game and millions of dollars in the hands of the refs on the field, you give them a chance to fuck things up! If that's an Oregon RB, he was down. The guy was down, watch the replay, the same fucking replay the refs watched with the game in their hands.
In closing, this goes to show you that the current system of putting the game in the hands of the refs on the field is not the way to go. If you are a college football fan you know this was not the only game the messed up (KSU/CUSE game at Yankee Stadium and TENN/UNC game in Nashville just to name two). In the NHL, they have a centralized team located in one room that controls all the close calls the refs seem to miss on the ice during any game in the NHL in a particular night. This puts the pressure on the league to control these individuals to make the correct and honest decision based on the rules of the league. Since they have had this committee, I have never seen a blown call on whether the play was a goal or not. I wish I had the right connection to get these thoughts out to the right people so something could be done. Since I don't, I have you reading it! HA!
Thanks for reading and come back soon! Go DUCKS!
-Mr. A
p.s. Is it time for the World Series Champion Giants to defend their title yet? GO GIANTS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqkAEWVNj6I&feature=player_embedded
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