Worst calls you have seen against your team..

[homer]rockets - jazz 1997 conference finals

no holding call against malone cost us game and chance to face bulls in the finals and kick their buts like we surely would have.[/homer]

 

Grant Teaff's final game against Texas. The whole thing was a screw job, but one play in particular. A pass play, ball is caught- he takes one step and gets hit by a UT defender - ball pops out and Texas recovers.

Looked like a fumble. Everyone thought it was a fumble. It should've been Texas ball.

Nuh-uh. Well, if it's not a fumble, it's an incomplete pass - a defensive stop.

Think again. Catch - reciever called down - Baylor first down.

 

Do I really have to say it?

 

Utah - clock

Utah - anything.

 

oilers vs. steelers. don't remember the year, but the play was the impetus for instant replay being installed originally. A touchdown pass in the back of the endzone was called out of bounds when it was cleary in bounds. Give us those seven and we are in the superbowl.

 

Don Beebe was out of bounds

 

1988 Miami-Notre Dame game - Miami down 31-21 with 10 minutes in the 4th quarter at South Bend. 4th and 4 at the Irish 5 and Steve Walsh threw a little dump pass to Cleveland Gary. Gary lunged for the 1 before going down and it looked like to everyone except the refs that Miami had 1st and goal at the 1. But after he lunged the ball popped loose CLEARLY after he was down. Well, guess what? Yup, the refs gave Notre Dame the ball. Turned out to be a huge call because Miami missed an opportunity for a sure touchdown and 7 points. They eventually got a TD with under a minute to get it to 31-30 (they had gotten a field goal several minutes before that). But they went for 2 and didn't make it. So, Notre Dame won 31-30. The following Monday the referees admitted they blew the call - they didn't rule a fumble, the idiots ruled that Notre Dame had gotten the ball on turnover of downs (they forgot that Miami could get a first down WITHOUT scoring a TD). Of course, Miami never lost another game that season but neither did Notre Dame. Miami should have had 3 straight NCs (1987-89); but the refs in that game felt otherwise.

 

Oh and also obviously the BS Ohio State game in the 2003 Fiesta Bowl. Don't even get me started on that ****.

 

The year was 1979...it was Mike Renfro with the catch.

But you stretching the details a bit. It would have tied the game, with more than a quarter left to play.

1979 AFC CHAMPIONSHIP
Pittsburgh 27, Houston 13

Thiis classic contest between the two rivals always will be remember as the "Mike Renfro" game because of a controversial call by the officials on which Renfro was ruled out-of-bounds on an a reception in the back of the Steelers' end zone.

In the end, though, the Steelers captured their fourth AFC Championship in six years in a hard-fought, physical game that was much closer than the final score indicated and typified the rivalry that existed between the AFC Central rivals.

Even though the statistics favored the Steelers, their last touchdown came in the final minute, and the final score was their largest margin of the game. Terry Bradshaw continued his spectacular postseason play, converting 13-of-19 third-down opportunities, and the defense did not allow a touchdown, holding the Oilers to just 24 yards rushing and Earl Campbell to 15 yards on 17 attempts.

Houston scored first when Vernon Perry stopped a promising Steelers' drive with an interception, which he returned 75 yards. After the teams traded field goals on back-to-back possessions, Bradshaw guided the Steelers to touchdowns on their next two chances, which gave the Steelers a lead they never surrendered. Although, it was seriously threatened late in the third quarter when the officials ruled Mike Renfro did not have possession on what appeared to be a game-tying touchdown pass. The Oilers settled for a field goal, which the Steelers soon matched.

A fumble led to Pittsburgh's last score. Bradshaw's two touchdown passes gave him a postseason career total of 26, an NFL record, and increased his yardage record to 3,199. Franco Harris was the leading rusher for the 13th time in 16 postseason games and increased his rushing yardage to 1,442, another NFL mark. The win was the Steelers 16th straight at home and seventh playoff win in a row at Three Rivers.

 

'97 Jizzholes..

Last year and the out of bounds call..

 

your right, its been awhile and i was quite young.

 

I like to think of the single most important call
to promote instant Replay

Rocket River

 

It hit the bat.

 

I was just going to post Renfro and leave it at that ~ this was a dramatic childhood moment. There has never been such a fever about a Houston team and that loss was just devastating.

 

The Astros shouldn't have even been in the World Series.

From the Associated Press...

After 'Bad Calls' During Playoffs, Lawmaker Wants Umps To Pay

POSTED: 7:23 am CST November 3, 2005

JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. -- A Missouri legislator who's an avid St. Louis Cardinals fan said umpires should pay -- literally -- for what he sees as bad calls during the playoffs against the Houston Astros.

House Democrat Jeff Roorda feels bad calls during the in the National League Championship Series cost St. Louis a chance to play in the World Series. Roorda wants to expand the state athlete and entertainer tax to cover officials such as Major League Baseball umpires and other referees.

The tax is charged to out-of-staters who earn money in the Show Me State while performing in such events as baseball games and concerts. The revenues are supposed to go to the arts, public libraries and other cultural programs.

Roorda said if the umps aren't going to pay attention during the games -- at least they should pay taxes.

Roorda said the idea grew out of his frustration with officials in the playoff series the Astros won from the Cardinals in six games. But he thinks it's good public policy to tax the officials affecting a game's outcome, not just the athletes who play it.

 

First of all, that Jay Cutler kid was amazing last night. I think our whole stadium was impressed with his poise and decision making. There were many, many times we thought we had him sacked, but he made a great decision throwing the ball to a short man who gained big yardage. He played like a veteran. He took the reigns at the end of regulation and in OT and looked incredible.

As for the call, it's clear that he threw the flag when the WR started to dance - probably thinking he was going to do a whole routine, but he didn't. The flag was thrown early. Bad call? Probably. However, we had a few bad calls go against us during the course of the game that were clearly incorrect. This is one of many games I've seen lately where the officials were clearly sub-par.

Bottom-line is, your team had just as good of a chance to win in OT, but couldn't pull it out. I wouldn't be so quick to blame the entire game on that penalty when Vandy had plenty of chances to win in both OTs.

Out of curiosity, I wanted to know if you know what those pride stickers on the back of Vandy's helmet's were of? Our best guesses were they were anchors.

Btw, Jemalle Cornelius' 2nd OT catch with his heels right on the back of the endzone looked great from my 5-yd line, 15th row seats.

 

Scot Pollard fouls out guarding Shaq in the WCF... even though he was standing stock-still a good foot away from him.