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It’s July. There’s not much else to talk about right now. Kind of the dog days of the sports year.
I was talking with a friend about painful sports endings, and we each naturally talk about where our teams got screwed on bad calls. It made me think of this query to see if anyone would admit to this.
What was the worst officiating call that helped your team?
As a Yankees fan, the Jeter home run in the 1996 ALCS where the kid reached over the wall to interfere has to come to mind. Yeah, no defense of that one.
As a Broncos fan, I remember in 2008 where the Broncos were trying to drive for a late score. Jay Cutler clearly fumbled but a ref inadvertently blew a whistle, so it had to be blown dead. Broncos would keep possession and scored TD and 2pt conversion to beat the Chargers.
I am trying to think of one for Shocker Basketball, but none are coming to mind right away. For baseball in the Irvine Super Regional in 2007, WSU was trying to rally in T9th There was a bang-bang play at first where WSU was called out. Crowd and Shocker dugout went nuts. Umpires got together and overturned call, even though replay review was not a thing at that point. WSU ended up getting two-out hit to tie game, though Irvine won it in B9th.
Any others you want to admit to?
I was talking with a friend about painful sports endings, and we each naturally talk about where our teams got screwed on bad calls. It made me think of this query to see if anyone would admit to this.
What was the worst officiating call that helped your team?
As a Yankees fan, the Jeter home run in the 1996 ALCS where the kid reached over the wall to interfere has to come to mind. Yeah, no defense of that one.
As a Broncos fan, I remember in 2008 where the Broncos were trying to drive for a late score. Jay Cutler clearly fumbled but a ref inadvertently blew a whistle, so it had to be blown dead. Broncos would keep possession and scored TD and 2pt conversion to beat the Chargers.
I am trying to think of one for Shocker Basketball, but none are coming to mind right away. For baseball in the Irvine Super Regional in 2007, WSU was trying to rally in T9th There was a bang-bang play at first where WSU was called out. Crowd and Shocker dugout went nuts. Umpires got together and overturned call, even though replay review was not a thing at that point. WSU ended up getting two-out hit to tie game, though Irvine won it in B9th.
Any others you want to admit to?
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