Thanks for undoing years of therapy!!🤪
I’ve never been more pissed at officiating than I was that day. I can’t remember which Nebraska game, but there was a game at Lincoln that I was convinced the officials had money on Nebraska. Iowa still won, but the officials did everything they could to swing it to Nebraska.
Ugh. I was at that Minnesota game as a student. The next day there were photos of the “foul”. Never touched him.
2017 Iowa-Minnesota basketball game. Jump ball called and Gopher player was out of bounds.
If ever a game was fixed by the officials, this was it. The call against Solomon really takes the cake.
IIRC, the rule in the 2005 season was it was a catch if the receiver was forced out, hence Chris Spielman’s reaction to the call.
The one official is now a professional gambler.
I think there were multiple uncalled 12 men on the field violations by the Gators that day. Were the stripes called out over their performance that day?
Yes. We scored a TD late against their 4-3-5 defense.
For some reason I’m recalling that they even had 13 in the field on defense for a play. Maybe I’m wrong on that. But they played a 12 man defense several times during the game. They also clearly violated offsides on kickoffs throughout the game, but Greenway’s perfect timing was the only one called.
I think the refs were reprimanded after. I recall chat from some Hawkeye fans that saw the officials the next morning in the hotel lobby. They were laughing and chatting with Gator fans like it was old home week.
Worst call ever was 1972 Summer Olympic Gold Medal game for Basketball. US vs USSR.
Roy Jones, Jr, Seoul, South Korea, 1988 Summer Games - gold medal match against a South Korean
I loved Chris Speilman after this game, he called it absolutely straight. As I recall Iowa fans ran into the refs at the hotel after the game, politely disagreed with their calls
Very rare for commentators to be that obtuse when it’s a national broadcast. It was absolutely warranted.
I think that’s the name. No idea if they crossover to different sports but if his only expertise is football………….not a positive for the BIG.
Not correct use of “obtuse”.
As many bad calls as there have been over the years, you'd be hard pressed to find one as egregiously bad as a guy getting called for a facemask penalty after.......getting dragged to the ground by his own facemask.
Yep the all time screw job ever done in sport’s history. blatant cheating from officials on and from off the court
Bad as that was, it doesn't compare to the massacre of Israeli athletes and coaches that took place at the same Olympics. IOC President Avery Brundage took humanity to an all-time low with his "speech" at the "memorial service".
I’m not sure I’ve ever seen a game where announcers on multiple occasions call out bad calls as in that game.
Imo the fair catch is worse, because that wasn’t the call on the field…they made that determination based on an overhead view during replay. Had that been the call on the field, I’d hate it but I could at least semi-see it based on how Coopers arms were moving as he ran to catch the ball. But NO ONE on the field thought that’s what he was doing, everyone thought the review was to see if he’d stepped out.
It was a Conference USA referee squad that stole that game from Iowa. Ever since I have cheered against any time from that pathetic sheethole of a conference. I hold grudges in sports.
I still can't believe that was something that could be changed upon review. Talk about f***ing with the game.
