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To: BUSHdude2000
The referee closest to the play called it incomplete, they even drew an "X" on the guy during the replay and the announcer said it was a bad call. Watching this game was a waste of time when the result ends up flawed.

C'mon, lighten up. The game isn't decided in the broadcasting booth, its decided on the field. Officiating calls go either way over the course of a game. Teams just have to deal with them as best they can. When a call goes your way, you have to make the best of it. When it doesn't you have to bouce back. Good teams that win championships just deal with it and do what they have to do to win.

The Bucks did it with defensive effort and never-say-die attitude. They keep battling all season and put themselves in a position to win the big prize. They hung in there through the whole game and just kept coming back, knowing that if you keep trying and don't quit then you never know what can happen.

Their defensive plays won this game like they have all season. They forced two Miami turnovers and the offense turned those into touchdowns. Then Miami's Taylor makes a good play on the ball and gets an intercept, but Clarett (an offensive player at that) comes in and strips the ball from him. That leads at a field goal. That's 17 points right there as a result of defensive plays. Then they hold Miami on four downs inside the five, two of them from about the one yard line. A good number of teams might have just conceded the touchdown right there. But the Bucks just kept playing their game, knowing that as long as the door was open just a crack there was a chance for them to walk through it.

This was a game where there were people predicting Maimi would win by 63-3, or 48-7, or all sorts of nonsense. The Buckeyes were having none of it. They knew the game would be decided on the field. These guys are ballplayers, and they knew going in that playing the game was why they were there. They won the game and the championship fair and sqaure, on the field where it should be won. That that's something all the whining in the world by the naysayers won't change.

305 posted on 01/04/2003 8:22:23 AM PST by chimera
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To: chimera
14-0 NATIONAL CHAMPIONS!!!!! Never thought I would live to see the day, my alma mater finally won something. To everyone in the national media that gave us "no shot", particularly those boneheads on ESPN (except for Kirk Herbstreit, of course), kiss my ASS!
307 posted on 01/04/2003 8:29:41 AM PST by Big E
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To: chimera
Last night's game proved one thing: Offense sells tickets, but defense wins championships.
308 posted on 01/04/2003 8:34:30 AM PST by jragan2001
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