You’re still claiming that because Keyes couldn’t win he suffered no injuries. The injury is that the rules were broken. It has nothing to do with the score at the end.
It’s sort of like Nebraska a couple weeks ago. We were winning the game by a lot, against the Huskies. But there was a call where the ball was spotted badly. Coach Pelini contested that call just on principle. I don’t think they changed the spot after review but there had been a bunch of spots which had seemed quite a bit off so Pelini wanted to hold the referees accountable.
Now what if those refs had told Pelini that they would not do a film review of the spot because Nebraska was winning anyway. Suppose they had spotted the ball 5 yards off and Pelini asked for a film review of the spot and was told he didn’t have “standing” to ask for a review because he was winning anyway and the bad spot wouldn’t cause him any injury because they would win anyway.
A bad spot is a bad spot, regardless of whether the inaccuracy is enough to alter the outcome of the game.
I might remind you that Nebraska lost to Texas last year because the refs put one second back on the clock just in that one case. How many other times did one second too many or too less get run off in the course of that game without anybody catching it? That one second only got put back on the clock because it altered the outcome of the game. But that’s not how the game is supposed to be played; every second is supposed to be handled just as accurately as that one second that cost us the game.
Imagine if Pelini had argued earlier in the 4th quarter regarding one second, and the refs had said that one second wouldn’t make a difference to the outcome of the game anyway so it doesn’t matter.
A man who is on the ballot in 3 states cannot complain that he didn’t win because of Obama. He suffered no injury from Obama, only from his overall lack of popularity which is why he had to create a party.
The coach of a team in the game has a right to protest. The water boy of another team who is watching on TV does not.
“I might remind you that Nebraska lost to Texas last year because the refs put one second back on the clock... That one second only got put back on the clock because it altered the outcome of the game.”
Butterdezillion, I’m one of your BIGGEST fans.
However, the reason that one second got put back on the clock is because... (Drum Roll)... McCoy’s incomplete pass fell dead out of bounds with... (Here it is now)... One second left on the clock!
Replays confirmed it.
Grapes are sometimes sour, I know. (OU still sucks.)
You’ll get your chance for vengeance in two weeks.
Hook ‘em!