SEC Officials Help Florida Beat Arkansas
College Football, Video October 19th. 2009, 5:15pmWe missed most of the Florida-Arkansas game, but were inundated with emails Saturday night about how terrible the officiating was. The zebras missed badly on two calls … which just so happened to help the Gators on their game-tying touchdown drive in the fourth quarter. It was the same group of officials who flagged AJ Green for excessive celebration a few weeks ago in Georgia. Please keep them away from the SEC Championship game. [Sentinel]
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October 19th, 2009 at 5:19 pm
A-ROD ON A BITCH!
October 19th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
wow.shit like this, the miami-dallas finals and the obvious blown call between the yanks and the twins makes a person think almost all major sports are rigged.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
The pass interference call on Arkansas just prior to that personal foul was just as bad.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:28 pm
If the NBA were rigged the Suns would have been given every call against the Spurs in those series since San Antonio is ratings poison
October 19th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
This isn’t new. The Gators get phantom calls like clockwork… it’s almost as bad as the “no one allowed within 5 yards of Tom Brady” flags you see each Sunday.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:31 pm
As someone who doesn’t give a fuck about college football (MN Gopher fan) I’ll give you the impartial explanation. The ref didn’t see the whole play but just the end where the Florida guy went flying. He assumed it was a cheap shot and threw a flag. Not every blown call is a conspiracy.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
These guys have to be reprimanded eventually right? Right?
October 19th, 2009 at 5:33 pm
Meant to use this quote. I’ll reprimand myself.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:35 pm
no but what do you call a series of blown calls?
October 19th, 2009 at 5:39 pm
I’m just looking at this particular call and asking myself, why would the ref throw a flag? I’m afraid I’ll get a Paolo point for saying this but this is a case where the simplest explanation is probably the correct one. Again, I don’t have a horse in this race. I’m just saying what I think probably happened.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:41 pm
neither do i but i really hate dumb calls.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:42 pm
that makes you wish brady would blowout both knees walking down stairs or doing something simple like getting out of the shower.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
Agreed. Let’s clink beer steins and call it a day.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
Those were two humongous penalties too. Both were on second and 9 and would have been 3rd and 9 in the PI instance. It was just awful. I can see why the ref threw the flag on the roughing because he saw it late, but the pass interference one was a complete joke.
And Stew Mandel on CNNSI saying Tebow drove his team down the field to tie the game. Give me a break. Here was the drive that tied thegame.
Tebow 20 yard run
Tebow 1 yard run
Demps 10 yard run
15 yard pass intereference
one yard pass to James
15 yard personal foul
Demps 10 yard run.
What the hell did Tebow do on that drive? A 20 yard run to start? Throw up a prayer and got a Pass Interference? Tebow is good, but its crap like that that pissed me off.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:46 pm
PROST!
mmmmmmm…beer….
October 19th, 2009 at 5:49 pm
it actually makes me feel better that the announcers pointed out how bad that call was. more often than not, they let it slide.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
Even if the ref only saw the guy on the ground, there’s still no excuse for throwing that flag. It’s football, people end up on the ground for various reasons, most of which do not involve personal fouls.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:51 pm
Those consecutive calls disgusted me and prompted a facebook status change on a day that was supposed to be devoted to Texas-OU. That’s major.
October 19th, 2009 at 5:52 pm
SEC has now told Arkansas “there was no evidence on the video to support the personal foul penalty.” Whoops!
October 19th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
sker, i was just about to post that. being a Razorback fan, that makes me feel so much better.
/sarcasm.
October 19th, 2009 at 7:11 pm
Also don’t forget that Riley Cooper didn’t get called for offensive pass interference for the second week in a row. Both calls were crucial to the outcome of the games. It resulted in the only TD of the game against LSU. And it kept Florida in field goal range for the game winner, or perhaps even killed a possible Arkansas interception.
October 19th, 2009 at 7:54 pm
Welcome to SEC officiating. Nothing will become of this, and they will continue to ref big games. Yay!