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This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - 76lsjumb - 11-25-2014

http://www.cbssports.com/collegefootball/eye-on-college-football/24839732/pac-12-sats-replay-officials-cost-cal-a-td-in-loss-to-stanford

This got me to thinking: I wonder if the refs have ever before blown a call in the Big Game about when a ball carrier's knee was down thereby keeping one of the teams from gaining bowl eligibility...?  Oh, right...  ???

Semi-serious question:  If video review had been around in 1982, would The Play have been reversed?  Or were all of the relevant anomalies outside the purview of the replay officials?



Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - yvonne - 11-25-2014

Officials did review it years later. It should have been a dead ball foul for illegal formation.
http://www.newspapers.com/newspage/65732400/

Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - stanfordite - 11-25-2014

I have no doubt it would have been overturned on replay if they had it back then.  I am also pretty sure that had it been overturned, the 59ers students back then would have rioted and burned their campus to the ground like Vancouver Canucks fans. 

Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - 81alum - 11-25-2014

I don't understand why you are all talking theoretically about replay in the 1982 big game.  It was in fact the first time that the NCAA did review a play and overturned it, reversing the results of the game.  It did take them three days, though:

http://web.stanford.edu/group/axecomm/history/daily_cal_82.html

Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - dabigv13 - 11-25-2014

"Life isn't fair. I swear to God it isn't."

I realize this quote isn't real, and that I wasn't even born when it was falsely uttered, but man do I love it. I even mutter it to myself on occasion.

Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - Mick - 11-25-2014

(11-25-2014, 10:25 PM)dabigv link Wrote:"Life isn't fair. I swear to God it isn't."

I realize this quote isn't real, and that I wasn't even born when it was falsely uttered, but man do I love it. I even mutter it to myself on occasion.


Yep.  Every time I read it, it reminds me of quotes that were supposedly said, but weren't...and yet, they are so darned good, they just stay alive, like...

"Elementary, my dear Watson."  Holmes never said it in the original works by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle.
"You can see Russia from my house."  What Sarah Palin actually said was "You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island."  Two days later, Saturday Night Live had a little fun with it.  And you can see Big Diomede (Russia) from Little Diomede (United States) on a clear day, since they are about 2.5 miles apart.  You can also see Siberia from the American Air Force facility at Tin City or St. Lawrence Island, which is about 37 miles from the Russian mainland.
"Judy, Judy, Judy."  Nope.  Cary Grant didn't say it.
"Come with me to the Casbah."  Ditto for Charles Boyer.
"Play it again, Sam."  We all know that one.  Nix.


Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - fullmetal - 11-26-2014

Also, "Beam me up, Scotty" --James T. Kirk

Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - FarmBoy - 11-26-2014

I love snopes.com. I wish facebook would integrate a feature by which the snopes.com article invalidating misattributed or twisted quotes was automatically linked every time someone "shared" story that has been thoroughly debunked. That would be a great public service.

Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - JohnR34231 - 11-26-2014

Other famous quotes that supposedly never got said:

"Let 'em eat cake. " (Somebody may have said it, but it wasn't Marie Antoinette).
"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country". (What Nathan Hale supposedly said was "It's an officer's job to do his duty", or some such less dramatic verbiage)

Probably about half the quotes that get attributed to Abraham Lincoln fit in this category.

Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - FarmBoy - 11-26-2014

It also cracks me up when people attribute quotes to the bible, such as "God helps those who help themselves".

Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - martyup - 11-26-2014

(11-25-2014, 07:39 PM)81alum link Wrote:I don't understand why you are all talking theoretically about replay in the 1982 big game.  It was in fact the first time that the NCAA did review a play and overturned it, reversing the results of the game.  It did take them three days, though:

http://web.stanford.edu/group/axecomm/history/daily_cal_82.html

I have a copy of that issue.  What's  it worth?

Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - FarmBoy - 11-26-2014

Kal fans are now preparing built-in excuses for the BYU game.

Quote:And many Morman's are in positions of power in the bay area, including running many radio stations and newspapers.

Clearly L. Scott is a sports media ass-kisser, as he contracts with them for $$.

What if some of them are Morman?

Is this paranoia real, or are they just having a laugh?

http://bearinsider.com/forums/showthread.php?88761-PAC-12-Admits-to-Review-Mistake-During-Cal-the school I wish I had gotten into/page8

Re: This Story Just Keeps Getting Better... - stupac2 - 11-26-2014

Hatin' Ass Spurier's take:

Quote:The refs took three Cal touchdowns off the board, so they're automatically the first choice to run the defense for Sonny Dykes.