College football thread: We wuz robbed!

Submitted by Bird Dog on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 6:12pm. Tags:

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I was catching the last three or four minutes of my beloved Washington Huskies, and here's what happened. Our quarterback, Jake Locker, is a phenom. Sort of like John Elway but a better and faster runner, and more exciting because he's an inexperienced sophomore.

So there we were, down 28-21 in the remaining minutes of the game, and the Huskies start their drive near the 20-yard line. Locker was scrambling and throwing, basically marching his team downfield for the tie and overtime. In one play, it was 4th-and-ten, and he avoided rushers here and there, scampering and diving for a first down to keep our hopes alive. Then there was the off-balance 30-yard pass and acrobatic catch with one foot in. Locker then rushed for 15 yards, bringing us to the two-yard line. After a couple of failed jump passes into the corner of the end zone, Locker called his own number, spinning and jagging and diving into the endzone. Touchdown!! Locker celebrated with his teammates after flicking the ball behind him over his right shoulder.

But wait!! One of the refs threw a flag. Why? Because that backward flick of the ball was deemed a spike by one of the refs, and spikes are bad things. What's more, there's no way to overturn such a bullsh*t call unless the ref changes his mind, which he didn't.

So it's a personal foul, 15 yards. Instead of a chip shot, the point-after-touchdown was a more challenging 34-yard kick, and the fates were against us. BYU blocked the PAT. Game over. Game decided and ruined by some idiot ref with a rulebook shoved up his ass.

I swear, Seattle is a jinxed sports town. The Sonics are no more, moved to Oklahoma City because Starbucks founder Howard Schultz threw a hissy fit when the city wouldn't give him the arena he wanted, so he sold the team to some carpetbagger from Oklahoma City. After some phony gestures and happytalk, the new owner up and moved the franchise.

The Mariners suck, and I've moved from fan back to long-suffering fan. Husky coach Ty Willingham is unable to engineer victories or come up with a competent defense. I guess there's always Husky basketball to look forward to. Or not. No wonder I'm spending more of my TV hours watching politics and movies.
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Bird, You Was Robbed...One of the all time Bad Calls....NT (#117563)

by Traveller on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 1:25am

Traveller

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To Quote A Sign... (#117494)

by Harley on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 9:06pm

Unfurled at Joe Albi Stadium in my youth, never forgotten, while attending a rare Huskies/Cougars game in Spokane...

HUCK THE FUSKIES.

The sign was taken down with some haste.

To think is not enough; you must think of something -- Jules Renard

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Love Rude College Slogans (#117541)

by caleb on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 12:00am

One of my favorites from WVU....

PENN STATE SUCKS

PITT SWALLOWS

~At times like these I am reminded of the immortal words of Socrates when he said...."I drank what?"

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I was going to respond angrily, (#117502)

by Bird Dog on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 9:34pm

but then I saw the Cal-WSU score. 66-3 Bears.

Hey, stop me if I told you this, but you know what Huskies and Cougars have in common? The all applied at the UW. But I'll say this, Cougar cheese is pretty damn good.

"I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead." -- Paris Hilton

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Just Wait Till Basketball Season, Buster nt (#117561)

by Harley on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 1:21am

To think is not enough; you must think of something -- Jules Renard

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You know what WSU grads say to UW grads? (#117562)

by HankP on Sun, 09/07/2008 - 1:22am

"You want fries with that?"

I blame it all on the Internet

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Yeah Sonics fans (#117452)

by Kierkegaard on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 6:23pm

should really boycott Starbucks--though why anyone would patronize it in the Seattle area anyway is beyond me. Presumably they sell better coffee there ;)

Obviously I don't know as much about the Sonics tragedy as a resident, but Stern seems determined to further punish the fans by refusing to consider expansion back into the market. I know the thinking for some years has been that the 'talent pool' of players and coaches can't be further 'diluted', but of course that's the rankest garbage--the real reason is that they want to expand to Europe.

Odds are good that a determined and wealthy ownership group could eventually lure back the Grizzlies or some other woeful team--what's the local gossip on that?

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Latte stands on every street corner, (#117466)

by Bird Dog on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 7:34pm

and sometimes two at a corner, but Starbucks is still pretty major here. Like McDonalds, the quality is consistent, and fortunately the quality is consistently good. The stores are pretty nice, too, as they are anywhere else. Nevertheless, I hesitate to go there because of what Schultz did to the Sonics franchise. He's responsible and so's Wally Walker, the GM who singlehandedly took the team from championship caliber in 1996 to dregs.

We're not going to get a franchise until we get an NBA-worthy arena, and who knows when--or if--that'll occur. It was hard enough getting Safeco Field and Qwest Field, and Seattleites didn't want to go through morass again.

"I want America to know that I'm, like, totally ready to lead." -- Paris Hilton

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Well, as I said, (#117471)

by Kierkegaard on Sat, 09/06/2008 - 7:53pm

wealthy and aggressive ownership. The owner of my team--and he's hardly any paragon--built Verizon Center here in DC with his own money, plus a lot of corporate investment, as part of the downtown redevelopment program, which is only ever going to be half-completed. But he's ended up losing very little of his own money on the deal. I'm sure a number of other ownership groups have noted exactly how he did it, so I doubt that any other arenas or stadia will be built by voters again anytime soon. That's what's so sad about this. If corporations like MS had become involved in a major real estate investment with an owner, then this never need have happened.

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