The tuck rule -- might have been a fumble... ha ha ha!
Would.it be funny to you if it were vs Sparty and they won because of it ?
If it led to a B1G championship season with a rout of OSU, and a peach bowl ring memento - the answer is yes
That's Mel Tucker's "life champions" moment.
It was a fumble! Grr...
I had rooting interest for the Raiders that day, I liked Bledsoe, and obviously had a dark place in my heart for Brady, so I was quite bitter about the call and all that followed.
Imagine if it was called a fumble, the Pats lost, Bledsoe kept his starting job and the Brady career never takes off.
...hey, a guy can dream right?
Microseconds before the fumble Brady sustained a blow to the head which would’ve been a 15 yard personal foul back in the day. Instead of a 7 yard loss, and a loss of down basically. It should’ve been first down 15 yards further forward from the line of scrimmage. The Raiders got off easy.
But if Bledsoe kept his job, the world might have been deprived of his wines.
Everything happens for a reason, right? 🤷♂️
Disclaimer: Never tried his wines so I don't know if they're worth a shit.
Speaking of Wines...How can any self-respecting Buckeye have a rooting interest in Chuck Woodson's Raiders after what he did to you?
If I'm a Raiders fan, I'm totally pissed off all over again.
Otherwise, "mistakes are part of the game."
I.e., if it hurts our team, it's an open wound we keep sticking our finger in for decades, and if it helps our team, it's "let-it-go-move-on."
By the letter of the law it wasn’t a fumble. But yeah that was a dumb rule and it was a fumble in spirit
Fuck the Raiders, but yeah it absolutely was.
Is there a backstory on why he is bringing this up now? Trying to piss off a buddy or something like that
Maybe it's a follow up to this? Dunno.
It was a fucking fumble.
Plus tax
I honestly have no idea how the tuck rule should have been officiated.
Personally I think it was a fumble, but the way the tuck rule is written, it makes it nearly impossible for a QB to fumble after pump faking.
The way it should be ruled is that once forward motion of the QB's arm stops and he still has possession of the football, any subsequent loss of the football is a fumble.
We're not talking about the "Thai Tuck Rule" are we? asking for a friend.
I feel bad for Charles Woodson. He made one hell of a hit on Brady to force that fumble, all just for it to be called back as an incomplete pass.
I'm more of a Woodson fan than Brady, I suppose.
The tuck rule made it technically not a fumble, but sure looks like one. "What is a fumble" is now as confusing as "what is a catch?".