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Originally Posted by Justsomeguy
Actually, no. I'd rather the refs make a call right away. If it's the wrong call, so be it. It's just a damn game. However, people want to treat it like it's far more important. Fuck replays, play the damn game. Fuck "the right call." Just make a call. Most of the time refs are right as is. Or atleast close enough.
I'm not completely sure of the circumstances of the game. However, I just don't remember seeing it end like that. The refs took forever. They seemed to make no indication that the game was not over. Atleast if they had decided to make a call right away, the game would have been over quicker and my entertainment would have been saved. Instead, I finished watching saying, "WTF are they doing? I thought this was football." I was wrong. College football has turned into CSI.
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While I'll agree that sports are sometimes treated as more important than they actually are (hell, I'm a diehard Trojan and my mood is contingent on how they're doing), BUT the fact is the game
does matter. Those referees aren't just watching over some peewee flag football game at the park. The game had national championship implications, which means millions and millions of dollars for the respective universities. So, at a critical point like they were at, of course they're going to at least huddle up for a second to discuss the call.
And you'll have to trust me on the ending circumstances of the game. I've watched it over and over, and I have friends (whom I am supremely jealous of) who were there and have discussed the game with me to great lengths. The game had to be suspended briefly to clear the tons of fans that rushed the field. NBC did an AWFUL job of covering the last few minutes, so most people don't understand the pandemonium in that stadium towards the end. Also, Charlie Weis would not get off the field himself. In fact, he just stood blank-faced midfield for quite a while and barely made it back to the sideline before the final play.
However, steering back on track. It's been totally beaten to death by the sports news media, but USC and Texas seem to be on "collision courses" with each other. I'm really excited about the match-up, but as I've seen in every year with Pete Carroll as coach, the Trojans are gelling and becoming a very cohesive unit and are hurtling into the tail end of the season at full bore. The horns seem to be a very good team with a superstar at the helm...but I'm almost certain that they're going to be steamrolled.