Watching the Olympics every night has gotten me to wondering...
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Not that it really matters, but Pig returned the punt back to like the 12, not JJ.
I was in attendance as opposed to watching on tv and marginally intoxicated so I could have missed something, but we were down 12-7 at the time or soemthing like that -- one possession, though. The way I remember it the refs (and I had never seen this before) called the hold on one of our guys blocking one of the flyers -- and said that it happened before the change of possession (before the punt?!?!). Bama got an automatic first down due to defensive holding. Does anyoen remember that being the way it played out.
Adding insult to injury, on a 4 and 1 later on in Bama's drive their fullback goes Rod Gibson and his knee touches for like a 1 and a half yard loss. The spot gave bama a fist down. They score. 19-7 final? State's hope at an undefeated season went into the toilet. Then we lay an egg at Arkansas.
Biggest. Srewjob. Ever.
I was in attendance as opposed to watching on tv and marginally intoxicated so I could have missed something, but we were down 12-7 at the time or soemthing like that -- one possession, though. The way I remember it the refs (and I had never seen this before) called the hold on one of our guys blocking one of the flyers -- and said that it happened before the change of possession (before the punt?!?!). Bama got an automatic first down due to defensive holding. Does anyoen remember that being the way it played out.
Adding insult to injury, on a 4 and 1 later on in Bama's drive their fullback goes Rod Gibson and his knee touches for like a 1 and a half yard loss. The spot gave bama a fist down. They score. 19-7 final? State's hope at an undefeated season went into the toilet. Then we lay an egg at Arkansas.
Biggest. Srewjob. Ever.
I don't think Bama got the ball. Im pretty sure we got penalized in a major fashion though. It seemed as if it was from the spot the punt was caught. They may have called the hold that far back and it was a spot of the foul which made the call even more bizarre.
They got so many calls in that game, it got to where I just tired of booing and protesting and resigned to just sitting there accepting the anal raping from the refs.
I refuse to acknowledge that we lost that game.
I refuse to acknowledge that we lost that game.
and makes me less pissed, even though it is still completely bogus.
Maybe I ought to just let this go. It's been a decade.
Maybe I ought to just let this go. It's been a decade.
I was so pissed off at those refs. I decided to make it a conspiracy theory that Arkansas was a borderline bowl team that year and the SEC was worried about filling their bowl allotment, so the screw job was in on that set of plays. There is no way the refs handled that clock situation right, it was AWFUL.
There was holding on every play and I dont mean the ticky tack kind of holding thats on every play anyway.
What got me was in the fourth quarter, the refs totally took over and started calling EVERYTHING. It was totally different from the rest of the game. The '99 Bama game was a total screw-over. In addition to the "phantom hold", a Bama extra point went to the right of the goalpost, and was called good. Our section went ballistic.
The Arkansas game was a total screw job. We had lost to Bama the week prior and that game was pivotal on us making it still to Atlanta. I believe Alabama was in a tough one with Auburn and we were both still tied for first with them getting the tiebreaker. The front office knew what was at stake from a monetary standpoint being that MSU had attended the year before. Just like Tennessee, Roy Kramer was not going to lose the opportunity of putting the money shot on TV.
BYU - no question.
I may be a bad person, but I felt no remorse when their stud running back broke his leg late in the game.
BYU was 11-0 and the Mountain West Conference was trying to get their team in the BCS. As I remember, they still had a game with Hawaii that they lost so it meant nothing.
I may be a bad person, but I felt no remorse when their stud running back broke his leg late in the game.
BYU was 11-0 and the Mountain West Conference was trying to get their team in the BCS. As I remember, they still had a game with Hawaii that they lost so it meant nothing.
'99 at Bama and then at Arkansas. Remember? We're 8-0, ranked 8 when we go to Bama and there are the phantom holding calls. And then down at Arkansas, same ****. We were 10-2 that year with the number 1 rated defense. You can now do the math. Not saying we win both those games necessarily, but those ghost calls damn sure made sure we weren't going to.
I would assume the biggest screwjob would have to be the Ole Miss game with the pass interference call at the end (81?) that gave the game to Ole Miss. But since I wasn't at that game, I have to agree the BYU game was the worst I've seen called for 4 quarters ever. However, a game that probably bothered me much more was the infamous 92 game with Bama where an obvious fumble by Barker that we recovered was mysteriously converted to an incomplete pass and turned the whole game around because Bama went on into to score on that possession late in the game to take the lead and hold on for a close victory.
although it was early in the game when it happened it still ended up having a huge impact as we lost in OT.
...I distinctly remember being simultaneously pissed at the ref, but more pissed at Chris McNeil, who left the field, assuming apparently that we were going to kick a field goal or the clock had run out. We broke huddle and had no center. He came sprinting out there, but it was too late.
the BYU game was an entire game of obvious bad calls that were so one sided I thought the refs would get killed leaving the field. I remember two unsportmanlike penalties they called on us that were just so asinine it was ridiculous. There was no way BYU was leaving Scott Field with a loss.
...that was a major goat<17>. I think the ref who made that call, Dick Pace, worked at Ole Miss in one capacity or another.
The were calling "unsportsmanlike conducts" against Terrell Grindle and Dicenzo when they'd do that little "flip" with the ball after making a big play. They were sitting there watching the BYU linemen grab Conner Stephens and Dorsett Davis' legs and not doing anything. </p>
I yelled out a "that's ********" when we were headed back to the locking room and the blue hair in front of me started yelling at me saying she was not going to listen to that kind of talk and I started yelling at her, then her husband and other old dickheads with them. I swear I think I hate some of our fans worse than the other teams. This was all caused by that fat *** ref that wouldn't let go of the ball and get his fat *** out of the way.
We win that game without that call. Also, it is probably the worst call ever. How do you call PI when the DB has his back to the WR and goes straight up for the ball? Ridiculous.
1992...Alabama.....Jay Barker fumbled. It was a fumble. Close second to 1981.
1999....Alabama and Arkansas. It was obvious the SEC wasn't interested in us repeating as champs of the SECW. Both games we make big plays at critical points (Bama...punt return, Arkansas interception) to set up possible points and the refs throw a flag that negates the play. However, both games (especially the Arkansas game) we still had a chance to win.
1992...Alabama.....Jay Barker fumbled. It was a fumble. Close second to 1981.
1999....Alabama and Arkansas. It was obvious the SEC wasn't interested in us repeating as champs of the SECW. Both games we make big plays at critical points (Bama...punt return, Arkansas interception) to set up possible points and the refs throw a flag that negates the play. However, both games (especially the Arkansas game) we still had a chance to win.
cost MSU the game. Damn, I still get mad thinking about it and it's been 27 damn years........Just another reason to hate Ole Miss......
BYU was the worst. I still hate them. Among other things that have already been mentioned, BYU continually lined up without enough men on the line of scrimmage and it was never called.
Any time we play Bama, I expect us to get screwed, so I go ahead and start yelling at the officials before the game even starts.
Any time we play Bama, I expect us to get screwed, so I go ahead and start yelling at the officials before the game even starts.
was that by halftime, we all knew that Matt Jones was crippled, and wasn't going to beat anybody running. We had them into a one-dimensional offense, and the score was close. If we got a touchdown there going into halftime, odds were that we could break the Arkansas Curse.
Then to see the fat ref literally keep us from running a play as the half wound to a close, forced us all to realize that The Powers That Be would not allow an M-State victory over Arkansas, even when it was realistically possible. What's it up to now? Nine years straight and counting?
Then to see the fat ref literally keep us from running a play as the half wound to a close, forced us all to realize that The Powers That Be would not allow an M-State victory over Arkansas, even when it was realistically possible. What's it up to now? Nine years straight and counting?
While I think all of these are good choices, and I think BYU definitely takes the cake because it was so obvious and blatent... One I haven't seen mentioned much was the SEC championship game against TN. The offensive pass interference call and the holding call stand out....
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