i'm sitting here, getting ready to head to social psychology to take a test. i know, shouldn't i be studying, cramming every last bit of information into my under-prepared head? yes, i should. but i've been thinking this morning about college football. (what's new?)
over the weekend, a controversial -- and some would say, game-changing -- penalty was called on washington quarterback jake locker. locker, who scrambled into the endzone to score what could have been the game-tying touchdown with 10 seconds left, leapt into the air and threw the ball over his head in celebration and then joined the rest of his team in a dog pile of jubilation.
here is videographic evidence of this event. it's strangely close to the action, and shot from another angle than most i've seen. it's almost the zapruder film, in a much less gruesome sense:
the only problem was, there was a little yellow hanky on the ground. it's a new rule in college football that calls for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty to be called when the football is thrown into the air in celebration.
the result: the game-tying point after attempt is moved back 15 yards.
now, i doubt as many people would be talking about this if the following hadn't occurred: the pat was blocked. game over. washington loses.
there is a lot of controversy over weather or not locker "threw the ball high into the air", weather this call should have been made in a situation like this, or weather the rule is even a good rule at all. but one thing is being forgotten in all this, and it bugs me.
the pat was still blocked.
now, some would say that the fact that the pat was blocked was a result of moving the kick back 15 yards. maybe. the point is, the penalty didn't lose the game for washington, the blocked pat lost the game for washington. stop crying and play football. if the front line for washington had done that, maybe they would have done better at protecting the kicker from the blockers rushing past them.
i know it's popular to bash the refs (wait till basketball season, i'll be doing it every day), but it is in the rule book, they have been told to make those calls, and they didn't cause byu to block the punt. get over it.
(more videographic evidence, along with the rule and some faulty analysis.)
more to come... including, how did i do on that test i'm running to right now...
over the weekend, a controversial -- and some would say, game-changing -- penalty was called on washington quarterback jake locker. locker, who scrambled into the endzone to score what could have been the game-tying touchdown with 10 seconds left, leapt into the air and threw the ball over his head in celebration and then joined the rest of his team in a dog pile of jubilation.
here is videographic evidence of this event. it's strangely close to the action, and shot from another angle than most i've seen. it's almost the zapruder film, in a much less gruesome sense:
the only problem was, there was a little yellow hanky on the ground. it's a new rule in college football that calls for an unsportsmanlike conduct penalty to be called when the football is thrown into the air in celebration.
the result: the game-tying point after attempt is moved back 15 yards.
now, i doubt as many people would be talking about this if the following hadn't occurred: the pat was blocked. game over. washington loses.
there is a lot of controversy over weather or not locker "threw the ball high into the air", weather this call should have been made in a situation like this, or weather the rule is even a good rule at all. but one thing is being forgotten in all this, and it bugs me.
the pat was still blocked.
now, some would say that the fact that the pat was blocked was a result of moving the kick back 15 yards. maybe. the point is, the penalty didn't lose the game for washington, the blocked pat lost the game for washington. stop crying and play football. if the front line for washington had done that, maybe they would have done better at protecting the kicker from the blockers rushing past them.
i know it's popular to bash the refs (wait till basketball season, i'll be doing it every day), but it is in the rule book, they have been told to make those calls, and they didn't cause byu to block the punt. get over it.
(more videographic evidence, along with the rule and some faulty analysis.)
more to come... including, how did i do on that test i'm running to right now...
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