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September 22, 2006
Duck Soup
To say that college football is a passion in Oklahoma is an understatement, which has been reflected this week as many supporters of the University of Oklahoma football team are undergoing psychotherapy over a blown call by a replay official on an onsides kick that allowed the University of Oregon Ducks to nip the Sooners at the end of their game last Saturday in Eugene, Oregon.
Well, Oregon apparently has had enough of the OU criticism over the blown call and is now fighting back. Don't miss this hilarious news conference as the Oregon Duck explains with White House Press Secretary-style clarity that the replay official's call was actually the correct one.
Posted by Tom at September 22, 2006 4:21 AM
Comments
Pretty funny.
I especially liked how the referee mistook the questioner in a white shirt for a green one.
But, on a more serious plane, I hope that this debacle leads to discussion about how replay can be more effectively used. If the officials can't get it right, I would rather not have replay at all. Better to be jobbed once and be done with it than be jobbed, then given a glimmer of hope that the call might be corrected, and then get jobbed again.
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at September 22, 2006 8:03 AM
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