I wouldn't have called it but this is a bit of an overstatement. The Gopher defensive PI was just as bad. It didn't negate a TD, but it did result in one. I know we need to do a better job when we get screwed of saying it all evens out, but it kind of does.
Unfortunately the bad call will hide the fact that PJ and the OC went into a shell again in the 4th quarter and almost lost the game like they did in Maryland....He is not learning from his previous mistakes and that is a problem.
If you say so....
I mentioned this game in another post as well as the Penn St. game. Man -- we got screwed in those games pretty bad and both should have been Gopher wins. I guess the 1962 game vs. Wisconsin may have been the worst. The referees made a few REALLY bad calls that cost them from going to the Rose Bowl. The refs are human, too and they do make mistakes. It's part of the game. You can take them out of the equation if you play well enough where it doesn't come down to just one call at the end.
Perhaps because he could tackle Moore, which Swenson did one-on-one in the open field a few times.
I remember that game too, but I am not sure on the year. It ticked me off so much. If I recall even the announcers didn't see it. I couldn't find any video of it on the internet. If anyone can find it please post or link. Or maybe dust off that old VHS tape from your collection of old Gopher games, change the oil in your VCR, pop the tape in and pray that it doesn't fall apart.
That was so bad.
Such a. Absolute joke. 1 second left no timeouts and they somehow get lined up for a field goal.
Okay. My memory is a little foggy, but I did manage to find this. Going back and looking this stuff up one thing is pretty evident - Minnesota and Purdue games are high scoring with a lot of poor officiating and not short on controversy. Let's add last night's game to the fray.
That was the only play/call that decided it, huh? Receiving 4 points two drives earlier had nothing to with the outcome?
Agree that it was a very bad call but the worst call ever?Hardly. At least there was a minor push off. The Purdue/Gopher game at the Dome where the Officials were confused by the "Minnesota" decal not going all the way to the End Zone and said the receiver was out of bounds was far worse than that.
I agree that the players have nothing to apologize for. However, that call wasn’t “terrible”, it was terrible.
lol. I had the same thoughts. I was pissed that they called the penalty, thinking it took away our best chance of winning, which was giving up a score quickly and then trying to score ourselves.
This was the epitome of gopher athletics in the 90s
Obviously that's an opinion. He clearly did extend his arm. How much it helped is hard to tell. At the very least, the call was debatable. Now the one they called on us was absolutely terrible. The QB was throwing the ball away. It wasn't even a real pass. It was baffling. And it had just as much impact on the game.
Moreover, it was a full extension that gave the receiver separation from blanket defense, and you can see the defender lose at least two steps in the race - the final separation distance - upon the stiffarm. Now, I'm not saying that, under normal circumstances in a play that decides a game that this call should be made, but it's pretty clear why the official threw the flag, and it was a correct call. This penalty was far clearer than the previous game-threatening flag, the DPI on 3rd down in which no one has yet seen receiver altering contact on a throwaway "pass" that arguably was intentional grounding, and the play of which had zero chance of obtaining even close to a first down if the "pass" were to have been caught. As I said elsewhere, to not have made the OPI call given the egregious DPI call a couple of possessions earlier would have been the far more improper move.
Yeah, the series of crazy bad luck the Gophers had around that era of time - both with near-miraculous occurrences against them in-game, and head-scratching calls against them that often decided games against them outright - remains incredulous.
It has been really annoying listening to all the announcers talking about poor Purdue.
I am in no way responsible for the black and white wearing yellow throwing Iowa fans. I give back nothing.
