How has nobody mentioned Hue Hollins "foul" call that robbed Scottie Pippen of his title when Jordan wasn't around?

Start at about 2:45.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtWFhIZKAWw

Yeah, it definitely changed the game. Like I said, it may have played a role in the second goal since maybe some of the English defenders were tilted a bit. My point is that it's not going to be as big as something like the onside kick because that took it from Oklahoma certain to win and they ended up losing. I haven't seen the whole match but I think Argentina would have been the favorites from that point forward if it was still 0-0.

Would've been 3rd&7. OMG biggest game changing call ever.

Yah that's a good one. AWFUL call.

The Italy vs Ausria semifinal in the 1934 world cup was rigged.

Cant really find a good pic but the Phantom tag by Knoblach on Jose Offerman in 1999 Sox/Yanks LCS

Ryan Howards strikeout in the bottom of the 9th in game 2 of the World Series

That's irrelevant. We're talking about the most absurd call, not the one with the most exposure.

Not when it happened 7 minutes into the game vs the end of the game, and the fact that it's the World Cup vs regular season doesn't have any effect on the "outcome changing" part of it.

Good, we agree.

With the OU/Oregon call, you know the game changed, instantly and permanently. With the Argentina call, you don't know how much it changed the game. They scored another (great) goal, but England also was able to score, so it wasn't devestating. We'll never know who would've won that game if that call was made correctly. We know who would've won the OU/OU game if the call was made correctly.

You make it sound like it was common, when it hasn't ever happened before and won't happen again most likely. They missed the line call AND they missed the recovery call AND they reviewed it.

Sigh.

I remember seeing in an interview with him that Denkinger cried himself to sleep that night after seeing what he had done.

This whole game..

Became laughable by the end.. Certainly not the "worst ever" but still noteworthy.. The clip where it shows our WR get yanked by his facemask, they called a facemask penalty on the WR lol..

Wow.

I came of age watching the '85 Cardinals and '84 Illini basketball team (who got raped @ Kentucky in the Elite 8 so badly that the NCAA decided to not have tourney games on home courts anymore). Pretty easy to see why I have zero respect for officials.

What an epic bucket of fail this thread is. The thread title is "Most Absurd Outcome Changing Call You've Ever Seen". The key being "outcome changing". USA-USSR game qualifies as does OU-OU. For as bad as the Denkinger call was it didn't decide the series. As for the 'Immaculate Reception' what would you like the call to have been? Even with slow motion you couldn't tell who it hit last before Harris caught it.

Almost 2 full pages and nobody has mentioned 'The Play': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0fZCCAqoSwY&feature=fvst The ****ers knee was down at :15. If the refs make the correct call we aren't subjected to seeing this BS for the rest of our lives.

Is that what Franco told you?

How is that an "absurd" call? You can't see really see anything from that replay, the guy is in a pile, and there's one ref with a good angle on it.

His knee was probably down but it's not a blatantly obvious or easy call to make.

Also The Play is awesome.

well that low quality video was certainly conclusive

The final lateral would be the easiest to overturn, not that it ever would.

Hey, at least we found a Stanford fan in this thread.

are you trying to say the Denkinger call didn't change the outcome?

Post game interviews:

"We teach 60 minute football at Cal, not 59 minute 56 second football." -- Joe Kapp

"Waaaah." -- John Elway

LOOOOL

re: Cal/Stanford i've seen the replay about a billion times and his knee was definitely down.

the only thing that bothers me about the play is when idiots (bands/fans) can't wait until a game officially ends to storm the field.

god i hate that. end rant

exactly

no way on earth was the tuck rule the correct call... that is the NFL blowing smoke up our asses

+1,000 lol @ anyone buying into their crap. Funny how Simms didn't know the rule after playing QB for 20 years and no QB has pump-faked on every drop-back since (because they could never fumble per the "rules").