shoes

April 30th, 2020 at 7:29 PM ^

I just watched that a few days ago as I had saved the BT football in 60 version of it from last season. It was glorious. I also just watched the same for the MSU game (hey that Shea Patterson kid was pretty good in that game).

The Granddaddy

April 30th, 2020 at 7:23 PM ^

Hell to the no.  Unless you want to check out the all star ref crew from the Ohio HS athletics association hall of fame, there’s no reason to watch that garbage. 

Blue-Ray

April 30th, 2020 at 8:00 PM ^

For sure. Just saw Lattimore with the egregious mug of Darboh on that 3rd down in the 1st quarter again.

Showed how much of a momentum swing it was. Harbaugh, irate running and jawing at the refs.

He could tell right then, on a play SO f'n blatant, it was gonna be a long day. 

That that play isn't even the Top 3 worst calls or no calls in that game tells so much.  

  1. Infamous "JT was short"
  2. Called Delano Hill 3rd down, drive extending Pass Interference when the ball was way over their heads and uncatchable.
  3. Uncalled Pass Interference Cape draped on Grant Perry's back on the 3rd down in the red zone, that took all momentum forcing that field goal. Pass traveled far enough to where every eye had the time to turn and see it unfold. Nothing else to be looking at in that moment.

 

Nervous Bird

April 30th, 2020 at 7:39 PM ^

It's a consensus... fuck that game! There are two games in the Harbaugh era that I refuse to re-watch, OSU 2016, and Trouble With The Fucking Snap! It's not the losing that does it. It's how the losses happened - a fucking robbery, and a fucking fluke!

Hotel Putingrad

April 30th, 2020 at 7:40 PM ^

Just watched Darboh get pulled down on third down and had to change the channel. I’ve seen a lot of poorly officiated games in my lifetime, but that will always be one of the worst.

it broke Harbaugh and me both.

Bo Harbaugh

April 30th, 2020 at 8:12 PM ^

“Poorly officiated” would imply an attempt to impartiality call a balanced game upholding the rules, and failing to do so.

There was nothing “poor” about their effort, in fact, they officiated in a corrupt and biased fashion quite perfectly.  They managed to pull OSU into overtime with numerous missed PI calls, a BS holding call on a huge run, the Harbaugh unsportsmanlike, etc.

Combined with UM’s turnovers and “the spot”, it played out perfectly for the ref crew and OSU, as apologists and deniers could point to those as reasons UM lost.  The spot was the least controversial aspect of the entire game, being a legitimate coin flip call, but allows all the prior egregious, absurd calls against UM to be ignored in favor of this dramatic and “controversial” moment.  Add in the, “UM shouldn’t have turned it over” crowd, and you have the perfect storm of rationalization of a complete screw job.

No, this was anything but a poorly officiated game.  It was a geniusly officiated game by the refs to deliver their own and the probably the league’s desired outcome. 

dragonchild

May 1st, 2020 at 6:40 AM ^

Yep.  It rankles to call a perfect crime a "poor" job, because it implies things about it that aren't true.  The refs and the conference got away with everything they wanted in that game.

 

. . . and then OSU went on to get obliterated in the playoff, because they'd left the protection of the B1G and flat-out didn't belong there.  Small comfort in terms of karma, but it was vindication.

Don

May 1st, 2020 at 8:42 AM ^

If that game had been played in Ann Arbor and officiated by a crew in the Michigan HS officiating HOF with long time records of open support for Michigan who then went on to make the same calls but in favor of UM, the screeching from Gene Smith, Urban Meyer, and OSU would have been so loud and so sustained that an NCAA investigation into obviously biased officials would have been launched.

Carcajou

April 30th, 2020 at 7:52 PM ^

Had to watch this game in a bar in Tokyo filled with half Wolverine, half Buckeye fans and the feed was interrupted a few times.

The Ohio State gang ended up being banned from that bar for brawling...with each other.

ThePonyConquerer

April 30th, 2020 at 8:12 PM ^

I still prefer the 2006 game as the best (in my lifetime).

I felt like this game was perfect for the year I was having in 2016 though (it was a good year for me e.g. HS graduation).

 

Larry Appleton

April 30th, 2020 at 8:15 PM ^

I will say this, the Speight to Darboh TD on 4th down in the first OT was one of the most clutch plays in Michigan history.

energyblue1

April 30th, 2020 at 8:58 PM ^

Still can’t believe how one sided the officiating was.  JT was short, they had a face mask not called the play before along with blocks in the back and holding.  The out and out non calls of PI when they tackled Darboh.  The no calls of PI against osu when they interfered with Grant Perry in the endzone in ot.  The pi they called against our defense to give them a first down on the overthrow that was a well defended play.  The late hit seconds after the play on Webber should have been a 15yd penalty, targeting and an ejection from the game.  The false start on 3rd and 8 they didn’t call that should have been 3rd and 13 set and instead called Harbaugh for a PF giving them first and goal.  I can keep going.  Yes we made mistakes but officials more than made up for osu’s mistakes that game changing their mistakes into free plays or bonus plays setting them up for scores rather than them paying for their mistakes.  

 

Yeah, I can’t watch again.